Staff Profile: Khu Myar Reh, Principal

Staff Profile: Khu Myar Reh, Principal

Q/ Can you tell me about your background? I am Karenni. I was born in Karenni State. Because of the political unrest in Burma as well as human rights violation practiced by the military government and their allied military groups, I fled my village to Karenni Refugee Camp in 2003.     I finished my grade ten in 1988 in Burma. After this, I finished my distance university in 1995 in Taungyi, Shan state of Burma. Before arriving in the refugee camp, I used to be a teacher for over 10 years in Karenni State. I arrived in Karenni refugee camp #1 in 2003 and had worked as a teacher at high school for 4 years in Karenni refugee camp #1 before I continued my schooling in EarthRights. I graduated EarthRights School Burma (ERS) in 2007. Since completing this course, I have been working at the SDC until this day.   Q/ What has been your role at SDC over the years? I started my work at...
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Our SDC community participate in a global leadership cafe

Our SDC community participate in a global leadership cafe

This month, our organisation hosted a world café event. The global leadership community and our donors, RIJ, provided the event to our organisation. The event helped our community to come together and proactively create visions and ideas for a brighter future. The global leadership Community connected to our organisation with the help of our donors, RIJ. Together with Principal, Khu Myar Reh, the global leadership community prepared a two-day event at our center. The first day was for our community and the second for our staff. During the first day, we began by introducing ourselves and our relationship to SDC. At the event, we had a broad range of voices represented including staff, alumni, donors, supporters, volunteers and students. The GLC team encouraged us to give a word to describe what SDC meant to us. Some of the words we gave were justice, opportunity, power, improvement and preservation. This activity allowed us all to see the importance of SDC to our community. We...
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