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Delhi Government
MLA announces football match to honour Aung San Suu
Kyi
By Htoo Shin
Mizzima News (www.mizzima.com)
New Delhi, 15 June 2003
At an award ceremony for Burmese refugee children at Oxford
Senior
Secondary School, Mukesh Sharma, Member of Legislative Assembly
for the
Vikas Puri constituency for the Congress Party (the ruling party
in the
Delhi Government) announced that he would organise a football
match in
the honour of Aung San Suu Kyi for the Burmese rrefugee living
in New
Delhi.
Mukesh Sharma attended the function organized by the All Burma
Refugee
Students' Parents Committeeas as the chief guest. Awards were
given for
academic performance in 2002-03. He personally gave an excellence
award to Elizabeth, a Chin girl studying at Savior Convent Public
School,
who received 99 per cent in Class I.
"I would solve Burmese refugees' problems like as education,
health and
etc. in my constituency. I would give the 50 per cent discount
on
monthly fees for all Burmese refugee children attending in any
classes if
they wanted to study at the Holy Innocent Public School",
Mr Sharma
stated.
U Nyunt Hla, president of the ABRSPC said: "Although we
didn't get any
assistance from any organizations or NGOs, we could give awards
to our
children. This is because we were very concerned that our children's
future not be compromised and their traditional custom, culture
and
language maintained while living in India".
A total of 108 students received first, second, third and consolation
prizes at the function.
More than 150 Burmese refugee children are studying in different
schools in New Delhi and most of them are popular among the
Indian students
for their hard work in studies.
U Mawthiri, author in Hindi-Burmese, Capt. Sharma, director
of Oxford
School and U Tha Noe, a Minister of the exiled Burmese government,
were
among the 150 people who attended the ceremony.
The ABRSCP was established in January 2002 to help Burmese refugee
children in India with their education needs. This year's prize
distribution for Burmese refugee children the second such ceremony. |
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