Sunshine's dream

Sunshine is a Burmese refugee in Thailand. This is her dream, in her own words:

"The first time when I know myself, I think about my future and I asked myself that what do you want to be in your future? I answer myself that I want to be a richest person in the world. When I enough grow up I asked myself again the same question but at that time my mind was change another that was very different with the first time, I want to be a leader in my village.

Because in my village most of government staffs were Burmese people and they always talk in their language but most of our villagers could not speak/ understand their language. That why they always criticized and looked down us. They did not care the villager and they did whatever they want.

When I was primary student I faced with many problems such as because of poor
Burmese speaking I could not understand the lessons but I was very afraid to ask
teachers because they did not patient to me. I tried to pass exam year by year finally I could graduate in Burma University. Until now, my dream is not change and stronger then before especially when I here about my childhood village..."

You can help Sunshine achieve her dream by donating through the Big Give at 10am on the 6th December.

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Special Blog from the Thai Burma border

17 Nov 2010 10:47 am

The first in the series of special Big Give blog posts from the Thai/Burma border.

We have launched a campaign to feed 3500 hungry Burmese refugee children in 2011. You can read more about how you can double your donation through the Big Give here.

We will be publishing comments from Burmese children and young adults who now live in Thailand.

This is Sangsar's dream, in his own words:

"My dream is I want to be a teacher. Because some of the children in Burma and Thai/Burmese border have no chance to study like us. Because their parents don’t have money to send to school or some parents they don’t want to send because lack of knowledge. Especially I want to help migrant children that came from Burma. So I want to be a teacher to help people by sharing my knowledge as I have to them. And also I want to be a photographer because I love art and art can make us happy with the drawing and painting the picture. And I hope that if I can learn higher education of course I can reach my goal successfully."

You can help Sangsar achieve his dream by donating through the Big Give at 10am on the 6th December. Find out more here!