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		<title>Donate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We greatly appreciate your financial contribution to our important work. Click the donate button to submit your donation securely via PayPal.]]></description>
		<link>http://shanrefugeeschools.org/donate/</link>
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		<title>Newsletter &#8211; June, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[July 5, 2010 Dear Friends of Shan Refugees, Here is some good and bad news about Burma, Thailand, and Shan refugees, who are caught in the middle. New migrant registration laws in Thailand require refugees from Burma to be registered in both countries: Thailand and Burma. Many are afraid to do so, knowing it will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shanrefugeeschools.org/newsletter-june-2010/</link>
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		<title>Newsletter &#8211; January, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[January 28, 2010 Dear Friends of Shan Refugees, Here is an update on some of my time with Shan refugees in Thailand. 1. Pi Mok, a camp for construction workers, is the first school we started for Shan refugees. Twenty families had left for other construction sites the day I visited the school, which meant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shanrefugeeschools.org/newsletter-january-2010/</link>
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		<title>Radio Interview with KFAI radio in Minneapolis.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Listen to Bernice Koehler Johnson talk about her book The Shan: Refugees without a Camp to KFAI radio in Minneapolis. The Shan &#8211; Refugees Without A Camp]]></description>
		<link>http://shanrefugeeschools.org/radio-interview-with-kfai-radio-in-minneapolis/</link>
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		<title>Photo Gallery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Click on each photo to see a larger version.]]></description>
		<link>http://shanrefugeeschools.org/photo-gallery/</link>
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		<title>The Shan: Refugees Without A Camp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Summary of The Shan: Refugees without a Camp “I cannot go back to Burma, Teacher. They will kill me.” A mix of memoir, travelogue, and history, The Shan: Refugees without a Camp recounts the trials and triumphs of Shan youth, who have escaped slow genocide in Burma by fleeing to Thailand. There they study English [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shanrefugeeschools.org/the-shan-refugees-without-a-camp/</link>
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		<title>Story of Why I Left Burma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Story of Why I Left Burma By Larn I left my home and my mother because of events I witnessed when I was 12 years old. My mother got up early every morning because she had to draw water for the Burmese soldiers. Then she made my breakfast and some food for me to take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shanrefugeeschools.org/story-of-why-i-left-burma/</link>
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		<title>About Us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Schools for Shan Refugees is a 501(c)3 charitable organization established to help Shan refugees in Thailand get an education. For several years the founder taught English to Shan refugees from Burma, who had escaped to Thailand. She became knowledgeable about and sympathetic with their need and desire for education.]]></description>
		<link>http://shanrefugeeschools.org/about-us/</link>
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		<title>Situation in Burma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A military junta has controlled Burma for close to 50 years, during which time the country’s economic and educational systems have deteriorated so much that more than one million children have been deprived of an education, as have many of their parents. A large number of them belong to the Shan ethnic group. When Shan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://shanrefugeeschools.org/situation-in-burma/</link>
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		<title>Our Goal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our goal is to help Shan refugee children who live in migrant camps get a basic education, while helping their teachers, young Shan adults, earn regular wages.]]></description>
		<link>http://shanrefugeeschools.org/our-goal/</link>
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