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Mu Aye Pu
Raised village houses at forest edge. Not a school portrait.

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Pink Jade Educational Fund

A Perth charity that has helped keep a school at Mu Aye Pu. Support is not ownership.

The settlement, not a classroom roll. Faces of children are not published here.

The legal name is Pink Jade Educational Fund Inc. It is not a foundation. It is a Perth charity, an incorporated association in Western Australia (ABN 49 501 408 469), active from 2008 and registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission from 2024. The fund’s own about page says it was established in 2006, after Margie and Jeff Fullelove travelled through Thailand and Burma, and after friends in Perth joined them to help children of Burma.

Jeff Fullelove is the public chairperson; Margaret Fullelove is the secretary. Sustain Projects Myanmar’s about page says Jeff has headed the fund since 2006, and that he works with Myanmar ethnic refugee communities in Perth. The fund raises money in Western Australia: quiz nights, an Entertainment Book, walks on the Bibbulmun Track. Donations and events belong on their own site.

At Mu Aye Pu the published claim is a school. The fund’s timeline says construction in Karen State began in 2013, that the school opened in 2014 with fifty students, and that later years list a much larger roll, many of them boarders. Those numbers are the organisation’s own figures, not a village roll. A 2019 Tribal Action Group film, Welcome to Mu Aye Pu: Karen State 2019 Village School Initiative, calls the school an initiative of the KNDO and the Pink Jade Educational Fund. That is the independent public picture: a partnership on Karen land, with Australian support for classrooms, not a foreign campus.

Karen Information Center reported in March 2025 that Mu Aye Pu High School students sat final exams in the jungle. A high school associated with the village was still running after the coup.

The fund also names schools at Hmawbi near Yangon, at Mae Sot, and elsewhere in Karen and Karenni country. Mu Aye Pu is one place in that list. The village remains a Karen village. A volunteer language project teaches English and German alongside that school story. It is separate support for learning, not a claim on the fund or the settlement. See History and people of the village.