by admin | Feb 13, 2018 | Newsletter
Friends (you know who you are!) often give me cash and say, “Use it where you need it most,” meaning use it for the needy Shan children our charity supports. I save that cash throughout the year and in the fall or early winter we use it to help keep the children warm....
by admin | Oct 1, 2017 | Newsletter
Pollen has honored Bernice Koehler Johnson by including her in their annual “50 over 50” list, which highlights “fifty of the most inspiring and accomplished leaders from across Minnesota.” Pollen kindly deems Bernice a “disruptor.”...
by admin | Sep 28, 2017 | Newsletter
Dear friends of Shan refugees: Politics and racism have created great injustices in Burma (Myanmar) this year. Persecution of the Shan, Kachin, and Karen ethnic groups by the Burmese military has increased. And military actions against the Rohingya (Muslim) ethnic...
by admin | Feb 10, 2017 | Newsletter
Dear Friends of Shan Refugees: There was a shocking incident in Burma after I wrote to you last week: Prominent Muslim lawyer, Ko Ni, was killed by a hit man at the Rangoon Airport. Ko Ni was an advisor to Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party, the National League for...
by admin | Jan 31, 2017 | Newsletter
Dear Friend of Shan Refugees, What an exciting year 2016 was! Six of my former Shan students, all of whom fifteen years ago voiced the wish to “work for their country,” attended the Panglong Peace Conference in Burma (Myanmar) in September. Their photos sent a little...
by admin | Feb 20, 2016 | Newsletter
Dear Friend of Shan Refugees: If the above photo looks familiar, it is because this is the same group of Shan students—one year later—that appeared in our last newsletter! Each year we give scholarships to children in this agricultural workers’ camp near Chiang Mai,...
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