ပ်ိဳးခင္း ဘေလာ႔ဂ္ မိတ္ဆက္ျခင္း

ပထမဦးစြာ ပ်ိဳးခင္း(လူငယ္အဖြဲ႕)(Pyoe Khinn Youth Association) အေၾကာင္း အတိုခ်ဳပ္

ေျပာခ်င္ပါတယ္။ ပ်ိဳးခင္းကို ၀ါသနာတူ၊ စိတ္တူ၊ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္တူလူငယ္တစုက ျမန္မာ႔အမ်ိဳး

သားပညာေရးအတြက္ အဓိကရည္ရြယ္ၿပီး ဖြဲ႕စည္းထားတာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ပညာေရးဆိုတာ

မွာ တိုင္းျပည္ျပန္လည္ထူေထာင္ေရးအတြက္ လူငယ္ေတြမွာ ျပည္႕၀ၿပီးမွန္ကန္တဲ႔ပညာေရး၊

အသိဉာဏ္မ်ိဳးရွိဖို႔လိုအပ္တယ္လို႔ ပ်ိဳးခင္းကယူဆပါတယ္။ ပညာေရးဟာလည္း နိုင္ငံရဲ႕အ

ေရးႀကီးတဲ႔ အေရးကိစၥတစ္ခုျဖစ္တဲ႔အတြက္ ဒါဟာနိုင္ငံေရးလို႕ေျပာမယ္ဆိုလည္းေျပာနိုင္

ပါတယ္။ မည္သို႔ပင္ဆိုေစ ပ်ိဳးခင္းကေတာ႔ ကိုယ္႔ျမန္မာလူငယ္ေတြ ပညာေရးတိုးတက္ေရး

အတြက္ တက္စြမ္းသ၍ေဆာင္ရြက္ၾကမွာပါ။ တကယ္ေတာ႔ ပ်ိဳးခင္းအဖြဲ႕သားေတြဟာ ကမၻာ

ၾကီးေပၚမွာတေနရာတည္းစုေနၾကသူမ်ားမဟုတ္ၾကပါ။ ဒါေၾကာင္႔အဖြဲ႕၀င္ေတြအခ်င္းခ်င္း

ဆံုမွတ္ကေလးတခုျဖစ္လာေစဖို႔ရယ္၊ ေနာက္တခုက ပ်ိဳးခင္းကလုပ္ေဆာင္ေနတဲ႔ ပညာေရး

ဒါနေတြမွာ အမ်ားသူငါေတြလည္းပါ၀င္နိုင္ၾကေစဖို႔ ၊ ဒီမြန္ျမတ္တဲ႔လုပ္ငန္းကို လူအမ်ားစိတ္၀င္

စားလာေစဖို႔ စတဲ႔ဖို႔ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာေတြနဲ႔ ဒီဘေလာ႔ဂ္ေလးကို ဖန္တီးထားၾကတာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ဒီဘေလာ႔ဂ္ေလးထဲ လာေရာက္လည္ပတ္ၿပီးတဲ႔အခါ ဘေလာ႔ဂ္ေလးနဲ႔ပတ္သတ္လို႕ပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္၊

ပ်ိဳးခင္းရဲ႕ပညာေရးလုပ္ငန္းေတြနဲ႔ပတ္သတ္လို႔ပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ ေ၀ဖန္အၾကံျပဳမယ္ဆိုရင္ ပ်ိဳးခင္းမွ

၀မ္းေျမာက္ ၀မ္းသာႀကိဳဆိုလွ်က္ပါခင္ဗ်ား။ ။

I am pleased to day these words in recognition of the good work

carried out by the Pyoe Khinn Youth Association, one of several Burmese people

support groups in Malaysia.

Considering the nightmarish condition under which people in this

part of the word seeking refuge for personal and family safety suffer in Malaysia,

there will be no physical, emotional or spiritual support for distressed asylum

seekers if not for organization like Pyoe Khinn Youth Association.

This association has, as its primary objective, developing the

human resource of Burmese youth in the country. This is a noble case, for it

enables the young Burmese refugees to learn skills that will better equip them

when resettled.

In this aspect, Pyoe Khinn Youth Association’s running of a

certificate course in electrical and electronics engineering is admirable. This

programme is now being evaluated by Petaling Jaya-based Paramount College,

for possible recognition as a formal training course.

Pyoe Khinn Youth Association was started in Puchong, Selangor,

by five young Burmese in August 2006 with the aim of getting Burmese residing

temporarily in Malaysia to become more self-reliant; to learn more skills while

here, so as to become useful citizens of theglobal community. It is now run by a

committee of 17, and has establishes a website-

www.pyoekhinnyouth.blogspot.com/ to enable to be linked with similar

groups worldwide.

It is estimated that there are 50,000 Burmese refugees in the

country, and only a little over30,000 of them have been registered as refugees

with the United HighCommissioner for Refugees in Malaysia.

As a Malaysian, I am ashamed that these people, running away

from their home country out of fear for the safety of themselves and their

families, denied the right to live free and in dignity, are not given the dignity of

human living in my country. Leave alone all the other persecution from the likes

of such as RELA.

I am very impressed with the work of Pyoe Khinn Youth Association

and its committee, and I wish them every success in all their endeavours.

G.Umakanthan

English teacher