Welcoming our new students with our SDC orientation

Welcoming our new students with our SDC orientation

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The new school year for SDC has officially begun. Between June 1st and June 5th, our 51 new basic course students got to know our school, our staff, our teachers, our coordinator and each other during their orientation. The orientation included a fresher’s welcome party which the Advanced Course students attended as well. Orientation is important for SDC as our students come from a variety of backgrounds. There are students from different ethnic groups, religions and areas. This year, we have students from the ethnic groups of Kayah, Shan and Kayan. There are also Animists, Buddhists and various denominations of Christians represented within the students. Our week long orientation provides these students with the perfect opportunity to meet and get to know each other before the school year officially begins. This year’s orientation included a number of activities. The students participated in; introductions; river of life; explanations of school rules and regulations; electing monitors for the students; providing duties to groups; talking...
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SDC succesfully completes the 2015 Summer Course

SDC succesfully completes the 2015 Summer Course

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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...
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Klaw Meh’s story

Klaw Meh’s story

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My name is Klaw Meh. I come from Karenni State, Shadaw Township. I was born in 1995. I came to camp in 1995. I live in refugee camp 1. I came to Karenni Refugee Camp 1 together with my family. I live with my parents. I get food from the Thai Border Consortium (TBC). My parents don't have jobs. My life was poor. I left because of war.   I grew up in camp. I started school at age 3 years old in the nursery school. I went to primary school, middle school No2 and high school. I studied with friends then I played football. When I went to school, I went to study science, maths, history, English and Thai. I was happy with my friends and teachers. I was interested in SDC school because I wanted to know about human rights, rule of law, environment, and democracy. These subjects are important because I want to empower our Karenni people.   I have studied...
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Maung Nyein’s Story

Maung Nyein’s Story

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My name is Maung Nyein. I come from Karenni State. When I lived in Karenni State, I had seen in the village fighting with Burmese soldiers and Karenni armies. Burmese soldiers came into my village and caused persecution. My life was very unsafe. My family was very poor. My mother went to farm in the field. I studied until grade 7 school because in my community to attend school, it costs a lot of money. I lived with my mother. My parents worked on the fields. I remember many scary things that happened. There were Burmese soldiers in my village. They persecuted our people. I remember forever why I left and about the Burmese soldiers.     Once I got to camp #1, I went to high school. I was 17 years old. I was a student in high school class B. My high school class group was called vegetable. I felt happy. I applied to SDC school because of my interest in...
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SDC celebrates the 2014 – 2015 Basic Course Graduation

SDC celebrates the 2014 – 2015 Basic Course Graduation

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All of our SDC staff, students and community are happy to announce the completion of our SDC Basic Course for 2014 – 2015. We marked the end of this course with our graduation ceremony for the class of 2014 – 2015. We held our graduation ceremony on Saturday the 28th of March 2015 for the 48 successful graduates of our 2014 – 2015 Basic Course.   Before holding the ceremony, students and staff prepared for the ceremony. We invited an audience comprising of many different sectors of our Karenni Society. Many of our alumni attended our ceremony. Other attendees included parents, relatives, friends and supporters of our SDC. There were also the students of the women’s study program.     A number of leaders attended the ceremony alongside the Coordinator of SDC, Aung Sun Myint Steven. Attendees of the ceremony included the Karenni Health minister, Karenni Refugee Committee chairperson and the head of the Karenni Education Department. The leaders made a series of speeches to...
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Classroom videos

Classroom videos

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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...
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Legal Training from the LAC

Legal Training from the LAC

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  Our Basic Training Course is specifically targeted at creating future activists for our community. More specifically, one skilled group we aim to provide our community with are legal activists. How can we build a new society without an understanding of Law? Our Training course provides training in Legal subjects but we also aim to network and integrate our students with opportunities within our community. With these ideas and priorities in mind, we provide training from the Legal Assistance Center (LAC). These trainings allow our students to network with staff in the camp legal system. They also create an opportunity for our students to get a valuable understanding of the practical aspect of working in the legal field. The trainings have been taking place during this month, July 2014. ...
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