HELP THEM DREAM AGAIN!
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Since the military coup in Myanmar on February 1, 2021, the Burmese people's lives filled with fear.
Mya and her daughters are eager to come to the United States on student visas--and when their studies are over, they will return to Myanmar and share the fruits of their U.S. education to help improve the lives of their fellow Burmese citizens. This is a lovely, highly-motivated, English-speaking family, and their future hangs in the balance.
Both Mya and her 18-year old daughter have been accepted at Southern New Hampshire University tuition-free. But they still need money (provided the U.S. Embassy grants all three student visas), for housing, books, health insurance, transportation, and other expenses. All funds that I receive will go directly to Mya. She owned her own business and is financially savvy--though between COVID and the coup, she hasn't been able to work for a year and a half. Under the terms of the student visa, she won't be able to work for the first six months in the US. But then she will work hard to support herself and her family here.
$15,000 is our goal for one year of expenses. Please help me invest in this family's future!
IMPORTANT NOTE: A correction on a former version of this appeal. I had said that Mya's daughter had told a story of harassment at the hands of the police and military. I now learn that I had misunderstood, because the daughter's English is not good. The harassment she refers to occurred to someone else, whose story she read about on Facebook.
Mya and her daughters are eager to come to the United States on student visas--and when their studies are over, they will return to Myanmar and share the fruits of their U.S. education to help improve the lives of their fellow Burmese citizens. This is a lovely, highly-motivated, English-speaking family, and their future hangs in the balance.
Both Mya and her 18-year old daughter have been accepted at Southern New Hampshire University tuition-free. But they still need money (provided the U.S. Embassy grants all three student visas), for housing, books, health insurance, transportation, and other expenses. All funds that I receive will go directly to Mya. She owned her own business and is financially savvy--though between COVID and the coup, she hasn't been able to work for a year and a half. Under the terms of the student visa, she won't be able to work for the first six months in the US. But then she will work hard to support herself and her family here.
$15,000 is our goal for one year of expenses. Please help me invest in this family's future!
IMPORTANT NOTE: A correction on a former version of this appeal. I had said that Mya's daughter had told a story of harassment at the hands of the police and military. I now learn that I had misunderstood, because the daughter's English is not good. The harassment she refers to occurred to someone else, whose story she read about on Facebook.
Organizer
Emily Kelting
Organizer
Norwalk, CT
