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Join Going Home 2009 Answer ‘Yes” to the following questions, and you are ready to join the Going Home program: 1) Are you willing to do what you can for your people and for your country? 2)

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Are you willing to contribute to the struggle of your peoples byway of donating books and other educational supplies? This is especially for our children, young students, who are fleeing from the Burmese soldiers (Yes, I mean SPDC soldiers!), hiding, and going to school at the same time so that they can at least read and write.

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

Reflection on 2007 & 2008

Let us do anything we can in defense of justice – for the Karens in particular and for Burma as a whole. After all, we rise as one nation and we will fall as one nation, for we all share the stake in this country we so much love.

The year before, the Going Home Team witnessed our people fleeing from home into Thailand due to the war and oppression in our homeland. This year the Team witnessed our people in refugee camps heading to yet other foreign lands due to the gloomy life in refugee camps in Thailand.

We welcome your thoughts:

Please feel free to contact our coordinating team with any questions, ideas, and suggestions you might have for the program. Coordinating Team Going Home Where We Belong [email protected] (Naw May Oo) [email protected] (Neineh Plo) [email protected] (Saw Kapi)

Are you willing to invest your time (summer) and your money (for your airfare) in order to be a part of a greater struggle of your people for freedom and peace?

We leave to seek better life and brighter future. And of course, we all say that we want to go home and be with our people, help them, work with them sometimes in the future. At the same time we know and feel that it is not easy to make this dream a reality. But we won’t dream if we think we can’t make it. Our home misses us. It needs us. And most of all, it welcomes us back. Let’s go home, my Karen/Karenni friends. Neineh Plo

Please note that we do not question whether you have any skill or ability to do anything, for we believe that everyone of us have unique talents and skills and we each can do many things – big and small – to help others. The Mountains, the Wealth Mutraw District (Karen State)

Going Home Where We Belong Join The Going Home Program 2009

Going Home Where We Belong

The Wonderful Yunzalin

Going Home Where We Belong The idea of Going Home Where We Belong comes from those who have been away from a place considered home for various reasons. Despite the fact that we are away from home and now in different parts of the world, we all share a common feeling about home – we belong there and we miss to be there.

Going Home Where We Belong

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Our (3) Main Objectives: 

to share;

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to learn; and

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to bond

We created this program so that everyone away from home can take part. We hope to be able to carry out this program annually, especially with the intention to bring together all Karen/Karenni students and youths and help them organize summer trip to go home where we belong.

So was born the idea of going home.

Walking into Luthaw Township, Mutraw (Karen State)

Going Home Where We Belong is a program to take you home, to enlighten you, and to give you a chance to share.

Please Contact Going Home Team at: 2451 E 10th St., # 421 Bloomington, IN 47408 U.S.A. Tel. 812 857 6007 www.goinghomekarens.blogspot.com

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A documentary film about the Going Home program is available now. Released by Resilience Media, produced by the Going Home Team.