Four weeks after a devastating earthquake in the center of Myanmar, a local charity has recovered backpacks covered with dust, water bottles and lunch boxes from the rubble of the “Bright Kids” preschool at Sagaing City and returned these personal effects to parents in tears.
Bright Kids had around 20 children attended when the magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck on March 28, killing more than 3,700 people. Seven children and a teacher died when school collapsed.
Myanmar-Earth-Shake-School Workers recover the personal effects of children in a nursery school destroyed at Sagaing City, Myanmar, on April 24, 2025, four weeks after the devastating earthquake of the Myanmar. (Sai Thiha Naing via Facebook)
The Nam Latt Social Relief Association helped clean the building on Thursday. The personal effects of children have been recovered from masonry heaps and twisted reinforcement bars while a retro shovel has scratched through the wreckage.
Sai Thiha Naing of the association wrote on social networks that today was a day when all members of the team shed tears and helped the children who died.
Children ‘bodies had been recovered a few hours after the earthquake when the rescuers have accessed the school in the school through a hole in a brick wall at the base of the building.
According to the state media, more than 2,500 schools were damaged during the earthquake.
Sagaing was near the epicenter. It is a region that has also been a bitter fighting objective between the military leaders of Myanmar and anti-Junta forces for a coup in 2021.
Myanmar-Earth-Shake-School Relatives cry outside a destroyed nursery school while collecting the personal effects of children at Sagaing City, Myanmar, on April 24, 2025, four weeks after the devastating earthquake of the Myanmar. (Sai Thiha Naing via Facebook) Myanmar-Earth-Shake-School The interior of a nursery school is seen through a collapsed wall at Sagaing City, Myanmar, on April 24, 2025, four weeks after the devastating earthquake of the Myanmar. (Sai Thiha Naing via Facebook) Myanmar-Earth-Shake-School Family members when they collect the personal effects of children in a nursery school destroyed at Sagaing City, Myanmar, on April 24, 2025, four weeks after the devastating earthquake of the Myanmar. (Sai Thiha Naing via Facebook) Myanmar-Earth-Shake-School Personal effects are recovered from a nursery school destroyed at Sagaing City, Myanmar, on April 24, 2025, four weeks after the devastating Myanmar earthquake. (Sai Thiha Naing via Facebook) Myanmar-Earth-Shake-School Family members cry as they collect the personal effects of children killed in a nursery school in Sagaing City, Myanmar, on April 24, 2025, four weeks after the devastating earthquake of the Myanmar. (Sai Thiha Naing via Facebook) Myanmar-Earth-Shake-School Workers recover the personal effects of children in a nursery school in Sagaing City, Myanmar, on April 24, 2025, four weeks after the devastating earthquake of the Myanmar. (Sai Thiha Naing via Facebook) Myanmar-Earth-Shake-School The toys and personal effects collected in a collapse nursery school in Sagaing City, Myanmar, on April 24, 2025, four weeks after the devastating earthquake of the Myanmar. (Sai Thihaning via Facebook) Myanmar-Earth-Shake-School A damaged preschool school was demolished in Sagaing City, Myanmar, on April 24, 2025, four weeks after the devastating earthquake of the Myanmar. (Sai Thiha Naing via Facebook)
