Refugees in Malaysia: A short video made by Burmese refugees about their marginalized, unsafe lives and lack of education in Malaysia, with support from our Fulbright team

September, 2013

With support from our Fulbright team and funding from the U.S. State Department, Burmese refugees in Malaysia made this powerful, short film about their marginalized lives and lack of education in Malaysia, a country with a current government that is hostile to refugees. The film bravely addresses:

• How and why they fled from Burma to Malaysia
• How they face detention, are forced to pay bribes, and barely survive in Malaysia
• How the Malaysian government does not allow refugee children to go to Malaysian government schools.
• How refugees are trying to educate their children, themselves.

Why is this film so brave? Because lives of refugees in Malaysia have been kept secret and refugees have kept themselves hidden due to Malaysian government policies targeting, harrassing, and detaining refugees in Malaysia - the Malaysian government is not a signatory to the 1951 UN human rights convention protecting refugees and has been described by human rights groups as abusing refugees and their rights in Malaysia.

 Click HERE to see the video on youtube.

Or watch it below --

The refugee teacher training handbook distribution!

July, 2013

The refugee teacher training handbook was developed by our team so that anyone who wants to train refugee teachers in self-care (management of their own stress and emotions) and classroom management of behavior, emotions, and attention could do it. Our team published this handbook and distributed the hard copy among the refugee schools and UNHCR.

The goal is for sustainability of this project via a handbook and training video - then the refugee teaching community can use both to continue the training of their teachers after this project has ended.

We loved the process of passing on knowledge via this handbook - you can see everyone's happy faces below upon receiving and distributing the books.

See post below for links where you can download these handbooks in English, Burmese, and Arabic for FREE!

Pictures of the handbook distribution below:

This is a picture of Dr. Ng distributing the handbook to UNHCR Education staff who will continue distributing the handbook to refugee teachers we have not reached yet.

Refugee teacher training handbook PDF below! You can use this handbook when training refugee teachers to manage their own stress and emotions in addition to classroom management of refugee student behavior, attention, and emotions. It is free, open-access, and you can right click it to download it.

Click HERE for link to English version of the Refugee Teacher Training Handbook PDF.

Click HERE for link to Burmese version of the Refugee Teacher Training Handbook PDF.

Click HERE for link to Arabic version of the Refugee Teacher Training Handbook PDF.

It is the OFFICIAL refugee teacher training handbook -- colorful, fun, engaging, and educational! 

See below for what the English refugee teacher training handbook looks like (Click above to get/download a free pdf copy of it):