Tag: Funding
"How I started my political work and what the Foreign Affairs Training is giving me now"
The
European Partnership for Democracy supports a Foreign Affairs Training of young
Burmese activists which is prepared by organizations Education Initiatives
based on the Thai-Burma border. For nine months a group of sixteen
representatives of small grass root organizations from Burma receive classes in
foreign affairs, human rights and democracy, international politics but also
computer and language courses. The main aim of the program is to train
political activists from Burma in human rights, democracy, international
politics, and foreign affairs work so they can effectively promote the Burmese
democracy movement and human rights within their communities and abroad. In one of the classes we have asked one of
the students to write a short essay on why is he doing this type of work and we
would like to share it with you. The article.






