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Headline October 17, 2018/ '' 'ROHINGYA'S TRAGIC REALITIES ' ''


 '' 'ROHINGYA'S TRAGIC REALITIES' ''




THE WORLD STUDENTS SOCIETY stops : to shines its growing and glowing light on its Global Head for education, Rabo.

Rabo, this genius technologist is also a very brave girl. Just as all the founding students of The World Students Society are, the very world over.

In Brief : How to be a great Students Society......
The World Students Society must learn to speak up. We must gain status as Leaders with *promotive ideas and voice*. We have to give a strong voice to all the problems being faced by the world and the  students the world over.

One of the defining behaviors of any leader is the willingness to speak up, even when facing great and overwhelming odds. We need to fear God and no man,..... and no one else.

*We must endeavor to create the !WOW!! effect*.

In Rohingyas case, from squalid refugee camps, to Rohingyas' teens dreams for higher education :  Questions matter more than the answers. !WOW!  must have an A-class plan on how best to proceed  forward.

''We are Rohingya. There is just no land under our feet. We have no future. We are in the same situation as a chicken in a cage,'' Begum said, adding that they can't even claim ownership over the fruit from a tree that we planted.''

Because of absolutely zero quality educational opportunities for them, UNICEF rightly calls the  refugee children ''a lost generation ''.

The International community has hopelessly failed these teens/children/students,'' UNICEF  spokesman Sakil Faizullah said, adding -

That the agency plans to start offering basic classes for older refugee students on the assumption that they will receive formal education when they return to Myanmar.

But in the current anti-Rohingya climate in Myanmar, Akter said her family's return has not been possible.

In order to go to school, Akter said she disguised her Rohingya identity by speaking only in Bengali, and dressing like a Bangledeshi girl.

But it was the battles that she to fight at home that were the most challenging, she said.

Most Rohingya girls are expected to get married by the age of  16, and sometimes as early as 14. She had to fight off her father who said her time for marriage had come.

Akter cried for days and begged her parents with hands clasped to let her continue studying.

Her mother, Minara Begum, a refugee who fled Myanmar as a child and never attended school, not only convinced her husband to let their eldest study, but also fought off rebukes from the elders in her community who warned that sending girls out in the world was a SIN.

''I told them let Allah punish me then,'' Begum said.

''What about our life as refugees that have gone in vain because of the illiteracy? If I can help my children get a better future by education, then that is what I am going to do.''

Begum now sends three of her four daughters to school and hopes to educate her youngest daughter and only son as well. Akter and two of her sisters live on their own near the school in Cox's Bazar, about two hours drive from the camp.

Akter's sisters were able to enroll in the Bangladeshi school after she had secured a place for herself there.

Begum said the family has skimped on food to cover the costs of sending the children to school, that they can build a future for themselves that is not bound by by the stigma of being a refugee.

''We are Rohingya. There is no land under our feet. We have no future. We are in the same situation as chicken in a cage,'' Begum said, adding that they ''can't even claim ownership over the fruit from a tree that we planted.''

Begum's dedication to her children's education seems to be paying off already. Akter now earns more money than the rest of her family's income combines.

While she is mostly busy preparing university applications, Akter also spends time going door-to-door at the expansive camp, documenting accounts of people who fled Myanmar last year.

She became hopes to eventually publish her research when she is in college, where they plan to study  HUMAN RIGHTS.

''Why do people have to lead their lives in such a situation?'' she said.

''One day maybe I'll be able to to raise my voice about human rights for the Rohingya.''

With most caring and respectful dedication to the Rohingya teens, students, Grandparents, Parents, and then Students, Professors and Teachers of the world.

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Good Night and God Bless

SAM Daily Times - the Voice of the Voiceless

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