Centennial Celebration
The year 2009 was the centennial birth anniversary of U Thant who was born on January 22, 1909 in a town of Pantanaw,Myanmar.
A Day of Commemoration was organized by the U Thant Institute, celebrating the legacy of U Thant with His Excellency Mr. Ban Ki-moon and Mrs. Ban Soon-taek as honored guests at the United Nations Delegates Dining Room on June 3, 2009.
The FAC Programme Launch
MISSION: To advance peace through education and promote intercultural understanding.
GOAL: To create a network of young students from middle schools around the world who will, through their connections with one another, practice tolerance, cooperation and mutual understanding and realize the value of diversity, as well as address the need to develop a spirit of “One World.”
Mr. Ban Ki-moon at U Thant's Mausoleum
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon lays a wreath at the mausoleum of third UN Secretary-General U Thant in Yangon on 23 May, 2008. He was in Myanmar for talk with the Government for a full-scale international relief effort three weeks after Cyclone Nargis left at least 133,000 people dead or missing.
Centennial Celebration in Myanmar
Celebration of the centennial birth anniversary of U Thant was celebrated with a gala event at the Inya Lake Hotel in Myanmar’s historical city of Yangon on his birth date January 22nd 2009. Over 300 including family members, friends and UN representatives, foreign diplomats, a Myanmar foreign ministry representative attended the event.
Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar
On May 8, 2008, the U Thant Institute urgently established the “Emergency Myanmar Cyclone Relief Fund” in response to the devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis in the Delta Region of Myanmar.
