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10$ for
Freedom Campaign: Scholarship
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To produce dedicated and pro-active Shan State youth committed to social and political change by providing them with necessary skills.
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Empowerment of Shan State youth aged 16 to 30 of different backgrounds and ethnicity. |
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Education for youth to have a more active role in the struggle for democracy, human rights and gender equality.
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For over 40 years now, Burma has been under a military regime and has been devastated by civil war and conflict. Struggling to stay alive and have decent living conditions, refugees from Shan State are fleeing to Thailand where almost a million have become illegal migrant workers. Young people are forced to do manual labor just like their parents and many girls end up in the sex trade.
Unlike the other displaced ethnic nationalities who have access to established refugee camps, refugees from Shan State are at a disadvantage when trying to access training and educational facilities. In 2001, a group of youth from Shan State established an in-depth training program for displaced Shan State youth to provide them with the basic skills and education necessary to take an active role in the struggle for human rights and democracy in Burma.
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SSSNY is the only school that provides an intensive training program on education to the unrecognized refugees from the Shan State community along the Thai-Burma border. |
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From 2001 up to the present, the SSSNY has already produced 190 graduates that can help bring democracy and political change to Burma. |
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Many of them are now working at different cause-oriented organizations. |
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From English classes and Computer Training, there are now 18 subjects covering areas of youth development, human rights, women’s rights, the environment, emergency relief, media and health. |
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The school serves as a venue for building trust and cooperation among the different ethnic nationalities from Shan State.
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Develop knowledge, technical skills and self confidence of Shan State youth. |
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Promote involvement in the movement for social change by producing graduates from the school that are actively working with various Shan State democratic community organizations, carrying out activities such as documentation of human rights violations, providing education and raising awareness to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS. |
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Broaden perspectives of Shan State Youth through programs that promote the empowerment and freedom of others in the community.
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The school offers classes that focus on Human Rights, History of Burma and Shan State, Computer Skills, English Grammar and Pronunciation, Writing Skills, Environment, Systems of Governance and Democracy Studies, International Crisis and Conflict Studies, International News, Basic Video Production and Media Studies, Maths, Basic Science and Health |
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Advanced Community and Leadershiop Development Program for 2 months for graduates and young community leaders to strengthen work in the community |
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Alumni Program for network opportunities and advocacy for social and political change
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| Nang Charm Tong, co-founder and Director of SSSNY, is an activist with the Shan Women’s Action Network (SWAN). She has received several human rights awards, and was named as one of Asia’s Heroes by TIME Magazine in 2005, in recognition of her advocacy against the Burmese military regime’s human rights abuses, particularly their use of sexual violence against ethnic women in the on-going war in Burma. |
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