Knowledge and Information Sharing

Knowledge and Information Sharing

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Many of our students have known nothing outside of the camp's boundaries for their whole life. It is common that ethnic students along the border to have precious little knowledge of news and current affairs. For our SDC students, we aim to change that. This month, students on SDC's basic course were introduced to a new activity: Information sharing. Beginning on the basic course, this year, every Friday, our students will present information about current news either in Burma or internationally to their fellow students. The students will present their information, individually, and each week different students will be selected to provide information. We believe this activity will both further our students' knowledge of the world around them as well as provide a valuable opportunity to improve their public speaking and presentation skills. The activity fits in well with our school policy of providing learner centered activities for our students. This activity will also soon be implemented on the SDC...
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Archived 2014: Basic Course Graduation Ceremony

Archived 2014: Basic Course Graduation Ceremony

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On 29th March, 2014, we held our SDC 11th graduation ceremony at the SDC campus in camp#1. During the ceremony, there were over one hundred people in attendance, including students, parents, their guardians, some leaders from the CBOs and camp leaders.   In recognition, on the graduation day we certified 33 students, who had successfully completed the Human Rights, Environment, Rule of Law and Democracy basic Course at Karenni Social Development Center from June 2013 to March 2014. We awarded some prizes to the 3 students who got the 1st, 2nd and 3rd among the 33 students. One further student was chosen as the best student and awarded among the 33 students. During the ceremony, one male and one female student were chosen and awarded a social prize. SDC coordinator, Aung Sun Myint, and the director of the Karenni Education Department, Khu Bu Reh, gave encouragement speeches to the audience respectively....
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Archived 2012: SDC field work and research report

Archived 2012: SDC field work and research report

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More recently, the current students completed their field research, and presented their reports on 2nd November, 2012.  Each year, students are required to conduct field research in Karenni Refugee Camp 1 and other communities on the Thai/Burma border to collect information relating to human rights, environmental protection and rule of law, depending on their interests.  The students are divided into 10 groups, and after collecting information through interviews and other means, they are required to write a report and present their findings to the class.  The 3 best reports are then chosen and translated to English. ...
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Archived 2012: Basic course 2012 – 2013

Archived 2012: Basic course 2012 – 2013

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Basic Training Course 2012-2013 Currently, 30 students are undertaking the basic training course, and will graduate in March 2013.  The current students were selected after the recruitment presentation in February last year, when according to the usual schedule, SDC staff went to community based organizations (CBOs) based in Karenni camps and along the Thai/Burma border such as Karenni High School, Karenni community college (KnCC), Karenni Ever Green (KEG), and Karenni Women Organization (KnWO), and gave presentations about SDC's vision, mission, objectives and activities, and distributed application forms for students to apply to attend the 2012-2013 basic training course. After the recruitment presentation, an entrance test and interview session was held in April 2012 according to SDC procedure. 96 applicants sat the entrance test on 20th April, and after the test, the applicants were interviewed by our staff over two days. Out of the 96 applicants, 30 students were selected, with results announced on 30th April 2012.  On 12th May, 2012, the students...
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