My name is Mansur Alam, this
summer I have been blessed with a wonderful opportunity to spend 2 months
volunteering in Chiang Mai, Thailand. I have come to volunteer with the
Cultural Canvas Thailand through EIL Explore programme. It is a dream of mine
to work with ethnic minorities and Refugees because I myself is a refugee from
Burma. I’ve spend my early childhood living in a refugee camp in Bangladesh.
And I came to Ireland in 2009, never having attended school and with no English
I have faced many difficulties and challenges every day with the language and
school work.
So I know what the situation
is like for the people living in such camp because I can relate. this is why I
have chosen to volunteer here in Chiang Mai where I heard about the Burmese
refugee students who left the country and now want to go to university in
Thailand.
I will be teaching science at
the BEAM foundation in Chiang Mai two days a week, Tuesday and Friday. BEAM is
an organisation that provide education to the Burmese refugees who did not had
the opportunity to go to college or complete their education in Burma. The aim
of this project is to prepare the students to passed the GED exam so that they
can apply to university in Thailand.
In my free time I will be working
with the Art Relief International (ARI) programme where I will be working on
different workshops such as, visiting foster home, children schools and many
more. I am very excited to be here and can’t wait for my work to begin.
Thanks,
Alam
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