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...
Legal Training from the LAC
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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Knowledge and Information Sharing
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...
Nga Meh’s Story
Q: What is your history ?
A: I am a Kayah woman, born in Saw Uyoe Lay on the Thai-Burma border. My parents are from Shadaw, Karenni State. I’ve never been to Karenni State and grew up in the camps. First, I lived in Karenni Refugee Camp 3 but later we were all moved to Karenni Refugee Camp 1.I studied from nursery school to grade 10 in the camps. After that I completed the SDC basic course 2012-2013 & 4th ACMTC .
Q: Why did you apply to SDC?
A: After grade 10, I was interested in the environment, human rights and the rule of law so I applied to SDC. Most of our community doesn't understand human rights, the environment or rule of law. These issues are very important for our people. So for me, I knew if I could learn about these subjects, one day I could share this knowledge with other people.
“Before attending this class, I didn’t know about legal...
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.
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Archived 2012: SDC Camp 1 Environment Campaign
SDC conducted a number of events this year to highlight the environmental issues affecting Karenni State and raise awareness of the need to protect the environment. From the last week of April to the first week of May, a 4 day course on environmental protection was conducted in Karenni Refugee Camp 1. The course was open to youths in Karenni Refugee Camp 1 and also from the wider border area. The purpose of the course was to raise awareness of environmental issues among the younger generation and to promote good environmental practices. As part of the course, we taught the youths to be aware of their environment, and talked about how to preserve their environment and how the environment and human communities are interrelated. We had also prepared some questions and quizzes related to environmental issues and invited the attendees to answer these questions and quizzes. The persons who achieved the best results in the quizzes were awarded prizes prepared...
Archived 2012: Basic course 2012 – 2013
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...
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....
Law wha’s story
Class of 2013
My name is Law Wha. I am 25 years old. I was born in Law Da Lay village, Loi Kaw Township of Karenni State. I am Kayah of Karenni nationality. I am one of the SDC students from the SDC and have been learning there. My parents are farmers. My family moved to Baw La Khen Township from Law Da Lay village in 1992 to find freedom from the political situation under the ruling of the SPDC government and the Burmese military government. When we arrived in Baw La Khen, my father bought a plot of land and built a small house with the little money he had. After arriving there, the economic situation of my family worsened, and as a result, we had nothing to eat but boiled rice.
There are 9 members in my family including my parents. I am the 3rd of 7 children. I start school when I was 5 years old, but because of...