Pann Nann Ein is an organization situated in the township of Dala, just over the Yangon River from Myanmar’s commercial capital.

The enterprise works with disabled people, training them to create ornate handicrafts that riff off traditional Myanmar aesthetics and are marketed towards foreign visitors to Myanmar.

Pann Nann Ein aims to not just create beautiful products – which they do – but also allow their members to feel agency and autonomy over their employment and how they fill their working day –  something that they are often denied.

In Myanmar society it is common to regard disabled people as helpless and look at them with nothing but pity. Pann Nann Ein battles these assumptions.