SDC succesfully completes the 2015 Summer Course

SDC succesfully completes the 2015 Summer Course

Our summer course has been successfully completed. A total of 45 students participated in the one month special English training. This year’s summer course ran from the 20th April until the 19th May. We are proud to have seen all of our students make solid progress with their English. These skills will help them in studying our own advanced Course or will provide them with the ability  to access further education elsewhere. This year’s course saw students overcome the challenge of the fire in the Camp to continue their education. During the course, students were taught in classes of 12 giving them a lot of opportunity to learn directly from their teachers. The lessons rotated from speaking and listening focused to reading and writing focused.  We separated the groups into A—D based on their English ability. This gave all of the students ample opportunity to fine tune their English skills. Our special English course is only in its third year, now. The reason we...
Read More
5th Advanced Course Graduation Ceremony

5th Advanced Course Graduation Ceremony

On 10th December 2014, we held a graduation ceremony for the students who have completed our 5th Advanced Community Management Training Course. This course is run in collaboration with our partner organisation, EarthRights.   The graduation day was celebrated in a joint ceremony along with human rights day. Prior to the celebration, on the 9th December, we organised a variety of competitions. The competitions included sports such as volleyball and caneball. There was also poetry writing and singing. SDC students participated in the competitions alongside students from other schools within our community.   During the graduation day, we held speeches from community leaders and gave out prizes to the students. After the ceremony, staff, guests and students enjoyed food and drinks together as our community celebrated their achievements.   The 5th Advanced Community Management Training Course included the subjects of; campaigning and lobbying; community organisation and mobilisation; report writing; project planning; proposal writing; international law; sustainable development; office and organisation management ; and computer. The next...
Read More
Learning about Consultations

Learning about Consultations

In the final week of this year’s advanced course we provided some introductory lessons into public consultations. These lessons were as a result of the kind and generous support we are receiving from an organisation made up of Canadian lawyers named Lawyers for Social Change. The lessons were split into three parts. During the first part we watched and focused on understanding consultations through the presentation provided by Lawyers for Social Change. This presentation was incredibly useful to provide a background to the students. One student even requested a personal copy of the presentation (he of course received it!). After watching the presentation, we used the structure laid out to plan a consultation together. During the class the students decided to plan a consultation about health problems within the camp and collect information that could be provided either to the administrative camp committee or to a donor organisation. Finally, for the third part, students acted out a consultation together. Five groups of students...
Read More
SDC ACMTC students organise a human rights workshop

SDC ACMTC students organise a human rights workshop

During our SDC advanced course, students prepared and conducted a workshop for members of the local community. This is a report of the workshop by an SDC student, Oo Reh.   Our workshop was about Human Rights. Firstly, we prepared this project’s plan. Then, ACMTC students interviewed. After that, we analysed information from the interviews. This workshop was successful so we were happy with our workshop. In this report, we will write activities, results, monitoring and evaluation. Activities Preparation On 9th October, Teacher Julia and ACMTC’s students discussed about Human Rights. Then, all students talked about interview questions and who we will go to interview. All students had different groups. There were Pa Pa Moe’s group, Soe Meh’s group and Shar Myar Kay’s group.   Interviews Secondly, all students prepared the interview questions. Then groups of students went to interview different places. We went to interview the local parents, Bible School, KSWDC, KNCC and staff of KnRC on Monday 13th October. We asked questions about Human Rights. We...
Read More
Classroom videos

Classroom videos

We use an open style of learning on both of our courses and allow our students to be involved in many activities.   This is a video of our Basic Course: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVlcS4bPSus   This is a video of our Advanced Community Management Training Course: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Ky2PR8d1w...
Read More
Archived 2013: 4th Advanced Community Management Training Course Graduation

Archived 2013: 4th Advanced Community Management Training Course Graduation

On the 10th December, 2013, we celebrated the International Human rights Day and the graduation ceremony of the 4th Advanced Community Management Training Course at the SDC campus. Before the ceremony, we held competitions for articles, poems, arts and songs related to human rights issues and we held a volleyball competition for the SDC students. During the ceremony around 100 people attended including the parents of the students, some leaders of the CBOs and Camp leaders. During the ceremony, the SDC Coordinator, Aung Sun Myint, gave a speech to the audience about the reasons for the ceremony of the international human rights day and the 4th Advanced Community Management Training Course. Furthermore, SDC advisor, Khu Oo Reh gave a speech of encouragement to the students and to the audience. The Coordinator of Earth Rights Burma, Khin Nar Dar, came from Chiang Mai to give a speech of encouragement to the students and audience too. ...
Read More
Archived 2012: 3rd Advanced Community Management Training Course

Archived 2012: 3rd Advanced Community Management Training Course

3th Advanced Community Management Training Course From 9th April 2012 to 29th September 2012, SDC and ERI joined forces to conduct the third annual Advanced Community Management Course.  This year, we received 40 applicants, and after a competitive process including a test and interview, 15 candidates were selected to undertake the course.  With the support of foreign volunteers and local staff, the students were provided with training in ESL, office management, project management and planning, advocacy & campaign, peace building, fundraising, report writing and research.  The students were also taught complex legal subjects, such as international humanitarian law and international human rights law, international criminal law, international environment law.  We were proud to celebrate the graduation of all 15 students from the third annual Advanced Community Management Course on 29th September 2012....
Read More