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The blog dedicated to our educational aid project benefiting a children’s home in Nu Po Camp, one of nine Burmese refugee camps in the border area of Thailand
Welcome to our blog, where we will keep you updated on our humanitarian project titled Books for Burmese Refugees.
At the end of 2009 we began collecting English-language comic books which we will personally distribute among the 100 residents of the children’s home. We also aim to set up a lending system to allow other young people from the camp to access the books.
Our goals with this project are to provide a highly appealing visual and textual media to support the English lessons these young people receive at school and give them an entertaining but constructive way to spend their free time. The adolescents will receive an introduction to reading comic books (a type of text with which they are not necessarily familiar) and will have access to English-Burmese dictionaries for better comprehension. Later, we would also like to give them the opportunity to create their own comics, with topics such as their experience living in the camps or their dreams for the future. For this second phase of the project, we would also provide drawing materials.
This project will be financed by donations from individuals (family members, friends and colleagues of the organisers), but the budget will be tight. If you are interested in helping us with this project, please contact us. Sending us one or two or your own used comic books will delight many children who, although poor, are highly motivated to learn and express their creativity – children who worry about their future but are holding onto hope in spite of the difficult circumstances. It takes so little to bring them happiness.
MORE INFORMATION
Burmese refugee camps in Thailand
HOW CAN I HELP?
We are accepting donations of new or used English-language comic books as well as financial contributions to help pay for shipping.
If you would like to donate to our cause, or for more information, please contact us at books.for.burmese@gmail.com
If you would like to donate to our cause, or for more information, please contact us at books.for.burmese@gmail.com
WHAT KINDS OF COMIC BOOKS ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?
The comic book genre covers a wide variety of themes (fantasy, history, war, superheroes etc.) and includes titles targeting specific age groups (young children, teens and adults).
The comics we are most interested in for this project are English titles such as Garfield, Peanuts, The Simpsons and Spiderman as well as English-language versions of Astérix, Lucky Luke, Tintin, Boule et Bill and so on.
We want to ensure that the content is suitable for young children and teens. Please avoid sending comics that contain nudity, explicit violence or negative cultural stereotypes.
The article below offers an interesting discussion of messages that can be delivered through the comic-strip genre.
ABOUT COMIC BOOK CONTENT
Interesting Books
Articles about Nu Po Camp and Burmese refugees
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