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    The document discusses the "Going Home" program, which aims to (1) share experiences, (2) learn about one's homeland, and (3) foster bonding among those who have been displaced from their homes in Burma/Myanmar. The program invites people who have fled oppression to donate books/supplies for displaced children's education and to volunteer their time and money to help others still struggling for freedom and peace in their homeland.

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    The document discusses the "Going Home" program, which aims to (1) share experiences, (2) learn about one's homeland, and (3) foster bonding among those who have been displaced from their homes in Burma/Myanmar. The program invites people who have fled oppression to donate books/supplies for displaced children's education and to volunteer their time and money to help others still struggling for freedom and peace in their homeland.

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    “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice

    Join Going Home 2009 everywhere.” Martin Luther King, Jr. Reflection on 2007 & 2008
    Let us do anything we can in defense of jus- The year before, the Going Home Team
    Answer ‘Yes” to the following tice – for the Karens in particular and for
    questions, and you are ready to witnessed our people fleeing from home
    Burma as a whole. After all, we rise as one into Thailand due to the war and oppres-
    join the Going Home program:
    nation and we will fall as one nation, for we sion in our homeland. This year the
    all share the stake in this country we so Team witnessed our people in refugee
    1) Are you willing to do what you
    much love. camps heading to yet other foreign lands
    can for your people and for your
    due to the gloomy life in refugee camps
    country? We welcome your thoughts:
    in Thailand.
    Please feel free to contact our coordinating
    2) Are you willing to contribute to team with any questions, ideas, and sugges- We leave to seek better life and brighter
    the struggle of your peoples by-
    tions you might have for the program. future. And of course, we all say that we
    way of donating books and other
    want to go home and be with our people,
    educational supplies? This is es- Coordinating Team
    help them, work with them sometimes in
    pecially for our children, young
    Going Home Where We Belong the future. At the same time we know
    students, who are fleeing from the
    and feel that it is not easy to make this
    Burmese soldiers (Yes, I mean haye@indiana.edu (Naw May Oo)
    dream a reality.
    SPDC soldiers!), hiding, and go- nplo@indiana.edu (Neineh Plo)
    ing to school at the same time so mmyo@umd.edu (Saw Kapi)
    that they can at least read and But we won’t dream if we think we can’t
    write. make it. Our home misses us. It needs
    us. And most of all, it welcomes us back.
    Let’s go home, my Karen/Karenni
    3) Are you willing to invest your
    friends.
    time (summer) and your money
    (for your airfare) in order to be a
    part of a greater struggle of your Neineh Plo
    people for freedom and peace?

    Please note that we do not question


    whether you have any skill or ability
    to do anything, for we believe that
    everyone of us have unique talents
    and skills and we each can do many
    things – big and small – to help oth-
    ers.
    The Mountains, the Wealth
    Mutraw District (Karen State)

    Going Home Where We Belong Going Home Where We Belong


    Join The Going Home Program 2009
    The Wonderful Yunzalin

    Going Home Going Home


    Where Where
    We Belong We Belong

    The idea of Going Home


    Join The Going Home Program 2009
    Going Home Where We Belong is
    a program to take you home, to
    Where We Belong comes Our (3) Main Objectives: enlighten you, and to give you a
    from those who have chance to share.
     to share;
    been away from a place
     to learn; and
    considered home for
     to bond
    various reasons. Despite
    the fact that we are We created this program so that
    everyone away from home can
    away from home and take part.
    now in different parts of Salween
    We hope to be able to carry out
    the world, we all share a this program annually, especially
    with the intention to bring to-
    common feeling about
    gether all Karen/Karenni stu-
    home – we belong there dents and youths and help them A documentary film about
    organize summer trip to go home the Going Home program is
    and we miss to be there. where we belong. available now. Released by
    Resilience Media, produced
    So was born the idea of
    by the Going Home Team.
    going home.

    Walking into Luthaw Town- Please Contact Going Home Team at:
    ship, Mutraw (Karen State) 2451 E 10th St., # 421
    Bloomington, IN 47408
    U.S.A. Tel. 812 857 6007
    www.goinghomekarens.blogspot.com

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