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In a significant boost to Myanmar’s sports, AYA Bank has pledged a substantial donation of 1 billion MMK for Myanmar National Teams to support the country's representation at the upcoming 33 rd Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) in Thailand. This significant sponsorship underscores AYA Bank's corporate social responsibility efforts and commitment to promoting sports and empowering athletes across the nation. The support was extended to the Myanmar Olympic Committee with 100 million MMK donation by AYA Bank, reinforcing our commitment to fostering Myanmar’s sporting excellence on the international stage. Additional 100 million MMK in cash award was also presented to Myanmar Women’s Football Team on their recent triumph.
On 9 th March, 2025, a formal ceremony, hosted by the Myanmar Football Federation (MFF) and led by U Zaw Zaw, Chairman of MFF and Founder Chairman of AYA Bank, marked the signing of the sponsorship agreement. AYA Bank has been a strong supporter of Myanmar football since the inception of the Myanmar National League (MNL), continuously investing in the development of athletes and the sport’s growth across all levels. The agreement was officially signed by Daw Jasmine Thazin Aung, CEO of AYA Bank, with U Nay Lin Htut, Chief Business Officer of AYA Bank, as the witness, and U Pyae Phyo Tayza, Vice Chairman of MFF, with U Htun Htun Aung, General Secretary of MFF, as the witness.
Myanmar will compete in four football and futsal categories in the 33 rd SEA Games, which will take place in December 2025 in Thailand. Preparations are underway, including hiring foreign coaches, conducting training camps, arranging friendly matches, and organizing joint training programs abroad to ensure strong performances.
In addition to our SEA Games initiative, we extend our heartfelt congratulations to the Myanmar Women’s National Football Team for their outstanding performance at the Four Nations Women’s International Football Championship. The team clinched the title by securing victory against host nation Nepal with a 2-0 win in the final match held at Dasharath Stadium on February 26, 2025.
AYA Bank remains committed to empowering Myanmar’s football teams and celebrating their achievements on international platforms. This initiative is part of AYA Bank's broader corporate social responsibility efforts, which focus on community development and the promotion of sports at various levels. By investing in the national teams, AYA Bank hopes to inspire a new generation of athletes and elevate Myanmar's presence in regional sports.
On March 5, 2025, AYA Bank PCL proudly hosted an early celebration of International Women’s Day (IWD) under the global theme #AccelerateAction, reaffirming our commitment to empowering and uplifting women. This year, the Bank embraced the message 'Always Love Yourself', encouraging self-care, confidence, and personal growth among our female employees.
As part of the celebration, AYA Bank organized an exclusive two-hour Personal Grooming Training for our female staff, aimed at enhancing their professional and personal confidence. The training was joined by approximately 400 staff, both in-person and online. The event was graced by an inspiring opening remark from CEO of AYA Bank PCL, Daw Jasmine Thazin Aung, who emphasized the Bank’s dedication to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace for women.
Adding a heartfelt touch to the occasion, we distributed beautifully crafted handmade pouches to all female employees. These special gifts were ordered from the Women’s Development Center, aligning with the Bank’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives to support and uplift women-led industries.
Through such initiatives, AYA Bank PCL continues to champion gender equality, empowering women to excel both in their careers and personal lives. The Bank remains committed to fostering a workplace where women feel valued, inspired, and empowered to accelerate their progress in all aspects of life.
Happy International Women’s Day!
About Women’s Development Center
‘Women’s Development Center’ in Kamayut, Yangon, stands as a beacon of hope for women facing societal challenges for over half a century. Established as part of the government's initiatives to promote gender equality and economic independence for women, the center focuses on equipping women, particularly those from underprivileged backgrounds, with the necessary skills to achieve self-sufficiency. It is a key institution dedicated to provide crucial support, including literacy and vocational training programs, to women, ensuring their integration and success in society.
AYA Bank PCL staff continued their commitment to saving lives as New Year Blood Donation Drive on 1st March, 2025. Under the inspiring message "Give Blood, Give Hope, Give Life ", the initiative reflected the Bank’s dedication to social responsibility and community support. As part of the bank's anniversary celebrations, the Corporate Affairs Department initiated the life-saving blood donation drive in 2013, and this year marked the 10th event of this meaningful initiative.
Held at National Blood Center Myanmar, the event showcased enthusiastic participation from AYA Bank employees, who stepped forward to donate blood and make a meaningful difference. A total of (181) staff members from Rowe and River View Head Offices and Yangon Division (1) and (2) adhered to the National Blood Center’s guidelines and participated in the voluntary blood donation. Employees from branch offices donated from 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM, while employees from the head offices contributed in the afternoon until 3:30 PM as part of their life-saving blood donation efforts.
During the event, AYA Bank donated MMK 2 million to the National Blood Center and provided lunch for all staff at the National Blood Center. Additionally, as a token of appreciation, we presented commemorative gifts, along with energizing supplements such as medicine, snacks, eggs, and energy drinks, to our employees who participated in the blood donation drive.
Over the past ten years, this initiative has contributed to thousands of lives, reinforcing the importance of regular blood donation. It fulfills the need of Yangon General Hospital and other hospitals in Yangon Area to reserve blood for emergency and treatment readiness. On behalf of AYA Bank PCL, we would like to express gratitude to all participants, "This annual tradition is more than just a donation drive—it’s a way to give back to our community and start the new year with a spirit of generosity. We are proud of our staff’s unwavering support in making a life-saving impact." We also extend our gratitude to staff from the Administration Department who attended and provided their support for this special occasion.
AYA Bank remains committed to corporate social responsibility and encourages others to join in the noble cause of blood donation. As the bank looks forward to future events, it continues to uphold its mission of giving hope and life to those in need.
"ရာဂီ" တိုင်ဖုန်းမုန်တိုင်းဒဏ်ကြောင့် ရေဘေးသင့်ဒဏ်ဆိုးရွားစွာ ခံစားခဲ့ရသည့်ဒေသများအတွက် အရေးကြီးသည့် ပြန်လည်ထူထောင်ရေးလုပ်ငန်းစဉ်များကို ဧရာဝတီဖောင်ဒေးရှင်းနှင့် ပူးပေါင်း၍ "လက်တွဲကူညီ ဧရာဝတီ" အစီအစဉ်အဖြစ် ဧရာဝတီဘဏ်မှစေတနာ့ဝန်ထမ်းများသည် တပ်ကုန်းမြို့နယ် ပိန်းတောရွာနှင့် မကျီးပင်ရွာတို့ကို စက်ယန္တယားများ အကူအညီဖြင့် ပါဝင်အားဖြည့်ဆောင်ရွက်ပေးခဲ့ပါသည်။
ဆက်လက်၍လည်း ရေဘေးသင့်ပြည်သူများ ရင်ဆိုင်ကြုံတွေ့နေရသော ပူပင်သောကအခက်အခဲများအတွက် တတ်စွမ်းသရွေ့ ဆက်လက်ပံ့ပိုးကူညီဆောင်ရွက်သွားမည်ဖြစ်ပါသည်။
Restoration Efforts for Flood-Affected Areas by AYA Bank
Under the program “AYA Helping Hands", AYA Bank members through volunteerism carried out significant restoration efforts using flood restoration equipments at PainTaw Village and MaGyiPin Village in TatKone Township which were severly effected by typhoon Yagi, in collaboration with Irrawaddy Foundation. Caring for the communities we serve is at the heart of everything we do and AYA Bank will continue to expand the supports and assistance for the impacted communities at our best.
ဧရာဝတီဘဏ်အနေနှင့် ရာဂီမုန်တိုင်းကြောင့် ရေဘေးဖြစ်ပေါ်ခဲ့သည့် တောင်ငူ၊ နေပြည်တော်၊ တပ်ကုန်း၊ ရမည်းသင်း၊ ကျောက်ဆည်၊ မြို့များ၏ ရေဘေးသင့်ဒေသများမှ ရေဘေးသင့်ပြည်သူများတွင် လတ်တလော အရေးပေါ်လိုအပ်လျက်ရှိသည့် စုစုပေါင်း ကျပ်သိန်းတစ်သောင်း တန်ဖိုးရှိ အစားအသောက် ရိက္ခာခြောက်များ၊ ဆန်၊ ဆီ၊ ငွေသား၊ ဆေးဝါး၊ ရေသန့်အပါအဝင် အဝတ်အထည်နှင့် အသုံးအဆောင် ပစ္စည်းများကို သွားရောက် လှူဒါန်းခဲ့ပါသည်။
ဧရာဝတီဘဏ်၏ “လက်တွဲကူညီ ဧရာဝတီ” အစီအစဉ်တွင်လည်း ပြည်တွင်းပြည်ပမှ ဧရာဝတီဘဏ် သုံးစွဲသူများအနေနဲ့ AYA Mobile Banking ရဲ့ Bill Payment မှတစ်ဆင့် Charity & Organization တွင် AYA Helping Hands ကို ရွေးချယ်ပြီး အလှူရှင်အမည်နှင့် ဖုန်းနံပါတ်ထည့်ပြီး ဝန်ဆောင်ခ “အခမဲ့” ဖြင့် လှူဒါန်းနိုင်ပါသည်။
AYA Pay Mobile Wallet ၏ Pay Bills မှတစ်ဆင့်လည်းကောင်း၊ အောက်ပါ QR မှတစ်ဆင့်လည်းကောင်း AYA Helping Hands တွင် ဝင်ရောက်ပြီး ဝန်ဆောင်ခ “အခမဲ့” ဖြင့်လှူဒါန်းနိုင်ပါသည်။
Supporting Flood-Affected Communities through ‘AYA Helping Hands’
In early September of 2024, heavy rain by typhoon Yagi caused disastrous flooding in various parts of the country. AYA Bank pledged its support in the early days of the floods and donated total one billion Kyat (MMK 1,000,000,000) in cash and emergency supplies, including non-perishable food items, rice, oil, medicine, clean water, clothing and other essentials, to the flood-affected communities in Taungoo, Naypyidaw, Tatkon, Yamethin, and Kyaukse Townships.
As part of the "AYA Helping Hands" initiative, AYA Bank customers in Myanmar and abroad can donate through the AYA Mobile Banking and AYA Pay Wallet, using the options below:
- AYA Mobile Banking Application: By selecting "AYA Helping Hands" under ‘Charity & Organization’ section of the ‘Bill Payment’ category, users can enter their name and phone number to make donations with no service charge.
- AYA Pay Mobile Wallet Application: By selecting "AYA Helping Hands" under ‘Donation’ section of ‘Pay Bills’ category, users can enter their name and make donations with no service charge. Alternatively, users can scan the QR code below to access the ‘AYA Helping Hands’ program directly, again with no service charge.
August is the month, packed with nationwide contribution activities by AYA Bank, devoting to uplift healthy lifestyle and engagement with community. In a heart-warming display of generosity and commitment to support pediatric patients in the area, the Bank recently made a significant donation to Yankin Children’s Hospital. The (550) bedded facility, a symbol of compassion and cutting-edge care, has been a sanctuary for countless children and their families during their most challenging times.
On 9 th August 2024, on behalf of AYA Bank PCL, Daw Khin Saw Oo, Executive Chairman, U Myint Zaw, Vice Chairman, and staff members made a contribution at Yankin Children’s Hospital. To mark the occasion, we donated cash for supporting its renowned pediatric healthcare services and lunch for hospital staff and patients’ families. Management of the hospital expressed profound gratitude for the donations which will make a significant impact and benefit for the patients.
On 22 nd August 2024, one more donation ceremony was conducted at Yankin Childrens’ Hospital, led by Daw Khin Saw Oo, Executive Chairman, participated by Daw Jasmine Thazin Aung, Chief Executive Officer, and representatives of the Bank. On a collective pursuit to save and heal more lives, AYA Bank PCL donated cash, in-kind and meals through Ayeyarwady Foundation, joined by members of Max Myanmar Group. The donation team toured around and delivered the gifts packed with toys and nutritious food items to children at different wards. It was our pleasure to bring presents for all the pediatric patients who unfortunately were spending time in hospital.
The funds will be directed toward critical areas of need including the acquisition of advanced medical equipment, support services for families, and facility upgrades. Every donation allows us to help more kids with health conditions and bring them one step closer to a cure. We believe our donation today can provide hope and healing for patients in need by tomorrow.
Are you passionate about discovering new football talent? Wondering how to turn that passion into action, AYA Bank PCL and AYA Pay collaborated with Myanmar Football Federation (MFF) to develop Myanmar football. Our main objective is to encourage football as a sport at the youth and grassroots level as well as support the Myanmar National Football Team.
On 7th July, 2024, AYA Bank and AYA Pay teams participated in U-12 Football Team Scouting Tour at Thuwana Training Pitch 1, organized by MFF. As a social commitment initiative, we provided funding, nutritions and energy supplements for young players. This initiative forms part of our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and nothing beats seeing players in action oursleves. According to MFF, the newcomers will be selected to compete at international youth football tournaments, Invitational Cups. MFF selected U - 11, 12, 13 and 14 for football academies in April and May with the assistance of FIFA to turn out new generation players for Myanmar.
Delving into one of the ways for healthly lifestyle, we remain dedicated to support a sustainable football society that prioritizes player development and long-term success. Through such CSR activities, we have established an entrenched working relationship with various stakeholders in the society and helping local talents in their development.
On June 21, AYA Bank launched its third tree planting campaign to address World Environment Day 2024. This annual initiative was held at the Pan Pyo Latt Philanthropic School (Monastery) in Bago Township where it signifies a cleaner, greener environment in the region with ongoing effort. We aimed to improve rural areas, restore degraded lands to primary forests and improve air quality in line with this year’s World Environment Day theme, "Our Land, Our Future. We are #GenerationRestoration”. The day was packed with a range of activities, actively participated by more than 150 AYA staff members.
Grow Green, Breathe Clean ... Planting Trees Today:
Trees are more than just beautiful elements of our natural landscapes. Fighting the climate change, we took significant steps one effort at a time. Together, AYA Bank staff planted more than 600 trees today, including 500 Acacia and 100 Bamboo, contributing to a greener future and raising awareness about the importance of environmental responsibility. It was a heartwarming experience to see everyone come together for this cause.
Donation Drive … Giving from the Heart:
The day also included a meaningful donation drive. The ceremony of offering cash and alms to monks was held at the monastery, where Sayadaw delivered a sermon, followed by sharing of merits gained. The positive impact of this endeavour is inspiring, enhancing the school's sustainability and contributing to the well-being of our community.
Engaging Community, Embracing Compassion:
Our shared vision for environmental and social well-being included other key stakeholders: indigenous and local communities. More than just a monestary, Pan Pyo Latt stands as a monastic school providing basic education needs for more than hundreds of children. Showcasing the spirit of commitment to community, we provided nutritious lunch to the children at Pan Pyo Latt and mingled around with them.
During the day, we also enjoyed fresh, organic meal from the Pan Pyo Latt School’s garden, highlighting the importance of sustainable living and giving us a delightful experience of farm-to-table eating. We appreciated organizing team for their tireless efforts in making this event a success, from planning and logistics to execution and cleanup and thanks to Pan Pyo Latt for hosting us so graciously. We will continue to nurture these bonds and dedication to a sustainable and greener future.
Youth plays critical role in nation building. There are many areas where we believe we can make a meaningful contribution to the youth of Myanmar. On this day, AYA Bank is proud to announce our sponsorship of ASEAN-China-India Youth Leadership Summit 2023, which showcases region-wide sustainability efforts spearheaded by the next generation of young Asian leaders. As part of our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) commitment, it is our great pleasure to support this summit by funding the event venue for country round and the winng prizes to our youth talents.
The country round was conducted on 3rd October, 2023 at Novotel Yangon Max Hotel. It was an exciting and rewarding program that helps youth to expand their abilities and strengths and gives sponsors the opportunity to connect with skilled young individuals across the nation. AYA Bank contributed not only as a sponsor, we extended our dedication by introducing ‘Future Banker Program’ at the event to give participants opportunity in the financial service industry.
AYA Bank has been spending years in contributing the community to lead healthy lifestyle and we are one of the signatories of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC). Theme of this summit revolves around United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) 11 and 12, perfectly aligns with AYA Bank’s commitment towards sustainable and inclusive future. This summit focuses on developing future leaders to create global sustainability and equip them with the necessary abilities, which we believe is the backbone to navigate the new era of sustainable community lifestyle.
As for the background information, ASEAN-China-India Youth Leadership Summit 2023 is designed as a Startathon for youth, to spark the beginning of their entrepreneurship or career journey. Since July 2023, more than 3,600 young individuals from 12 countries in ASEAN, China and India have competed in the qualifying Sustainability Startathon: Country Rounds. Given the primary objective, ‘To educate and raise awareness in our young population about the significance of sustainable living’, Myanmar Nobel University (MNU) acts the country partner for this summit to give youth across the nation opportunity and exposure. The top three teams from each country will advance to the Youth Leadership Summit in Singapore to compete in the Grand Finals.