NGSO committee meeting |
This past year, the New Generation Students’
Organisation of Yaung Ni Oo School in Mae La Oon refugee camp has received
support from Sundorne School, UK and Mrs Diane Olston, Australia.
We met with NGSO students and they explained how
they organized their fundraising event at Christmas (2010), how they used the
money that was donated, and their plans for rest of the year’s activities.
Firstly, NGSO organized a students’ party and sports
fair with football, badminton, volleyball and Tauk Si Doe (Burmese traditional
game). They gave prizes for the 1st and 2nd winners. They
sold Mohinga noodle soup, fried noodles, fried gourd, Rakhaing traditional
noodle, fried Shan tofu and noodle salad, and they and arranged some games for
fundraising. They also showed video, and ask for a small fees.
They prepared a dinner party for Yaung Ni Oo’s
teachers. The money that was raised during the event was donated to elderly people
in the camp. They created a small fund for students who need to be sent to hospital
in emergency. They also buy some
materials for school from their fund.
They bought 29 inch-TV and produced “Aye Chan thaw
Kaung Kin” newsletter. The newsletter is published in two languages: Karen and Burmese.
They will publish 50 newsletters and it will cost 10000 baht. In this
newsletter, they wrote poems, stories, cartoons and article about their
experiences and their feelings about their lives. They can express their
feelings by words. Producing this newsletter is an opportunity to practice
their writing skill. Everyone can know about their lives by reading this
newsletter. They gave the left-over money to NGSO’s cashier to keep for
activities later in the year.
Students said they wanted to do Christmas party and
funs fair every year, like the one they did last year, thanks to Sundorne’s
donation. They wanted to organize speech practice for Yaung Ni Oo’s students to
promote intellectual skills and self-confidence once a year. They also wanted
to do sport fair twice a year to keep students healthy. They wanted to publish
“Aye Chan Tat Kaung Kin” newsletter every year to improve their writing skill
and to let everyone know about their lives and their feelings. They wanted to
hold an easy writing competition in Burmese for YNO’s secondary students twice
a year.
Students thanked Sundorne school and Mrs Olston who
donated money and books to them and very much appreciated that people had preferred
to support them, YNO students, rather than use the money for their own needs. Students
admired benefactor’s wish to help other people. They wanted to give them “Aye
Chan Tat Kaung Kin” newsletter as a present but it is only written in Burmese
and Karen.
Salawin river viewed from the road to Mae La Oon refugee camp. Burma is on the left hand side river bank. |
Hello.. i'm YNO student n NGSO member before. Now i lived in USA. I'm so happy when i saw YNO school blog and i'm so thank full people who create the blog. I hope YNO students will be develope with knowledge more and more, and they will be success in thier life.
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