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====Hello My name is Mary I’m 16 years old. And now I will like to tell you about my story. Well I left to Myanmar since 2008. And that time I have no school to go. One day my mom’s friend tell me about their **harvit(00:17)** center so I go there and stay with my mom’s friend’s daughter.==== ====That time I was really scared because there is my first time of going to the new school and also I have story with new friends. And that time I don’t know how to speak English very well I stunned what people said to me but I don’t know how to respond cause I’m no used to it. So I tried hard and I learn how to speak.==== ====And one thing that I love to sing. So teacher Chris ask me to sing a song on a graduation day. And that is my first time sing in front of the people. Then she teach me how to sing and I’ve learnt from her. That time I was really nervous and you know what, teacher Chris is a very good teacher that I’ve never seen before and I’m really happy to story here and I love all the teachers in this school because they are really kind and good for me.====

Ok well lastly I want to say thank you to sponsor or **loucher(1:36)** and depends all teacher in this school because without them there’s no harvest. Bye and god bless you.
=**Information about Myanmar:**= Burma, also known as Myanmar, was long considered a pariah state, isolated from the rest of the world with an appalling human rights record. @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar @http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12990563
 * **Official name**: Republic of the Union of Myanmar (previously Union of Myanmar; Union of Burma )
 * **Population**: 48.7 million (UN, 2012)
 * **Capital**: Nay Pyi Taw
 * **Largest city**: Rangoon (Yangon)
 * **Area**: 676,552 sq km (261,218 sq miles)
 * **Major languages**: Burmese, indigenous ethnic languages
 * **Major religions**: Buddhism, Christianity, Islam
 * **Main exports**: Teak, pulses and beans, prawns, fish, rice, opiates, oil and gas
 * **Economy**: Burma is one of Asia's poorest countries; its economy is under-developed and riddled with corruption

[[image:http://www.alyunaniya.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Myanmar-refugees-UNHCR.jpg align="right" caption="Myanmar refugees - UNHCR"]]
According to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Myanmar is the largest source of refugees in Southeast Asia; globally, it ranked 13th behind Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia at end-2008. The root causes of Myanmar's refugee exodus lie in the ethnic and political conflicts since independence in 1948 from the British. About two-thirds of the population are ethnic Burmese, while the remainder are Shan, Karen, Rakhine, Chinese, Mon and Indian, as well as the Akha, Chin, Danu, Kachin, Kokang, Lahu, Naga, Palaung, Pao, Rohingya, Tavoyan and Wa peoples. There are about 135 ethnic sub-groups, according to the government. The minorities live mostly in the hills and mountains bordering Bangladesh, China, India, Laos and Thailand, while the Burmese are found in the central alluvial plains and major towns and cities. Burmese refugee populations are mainly found in Thailand, Malaysia, Bangladesh and India, though some Rohingya travel as far afield as Saudi Arabia. There are three solutions to any refugee crisis, says UNHCR: voluntary repatriation to the country of origin, integration into the asylum country, and resettlement in a third country as a final measure.Recognizing that voluntary repatriation is not a real option, and that settling in asylum countries such as Thailand is difficult, donor countries have offered in recent years to resettle thousands of Burmese refugees. Since 2004, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has helped to resettled more than 57,000 Burmese refugees from Thailand who belonged to the Karen and Karenni ethnic groups. They were mostly resettled in the US, as well as Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

@http://www.irinnews.org/in-depth/87861/82/myanmar-s-refugees-still-on-the-run