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World Peace??


You know why the woman cried badly??
because she lost her children

Why she lost her children?
because of their situation

what situation?
wars? hunger?


I not sure whether wars is the factor, but in reality,
Wars lead to everything suffer and pain, which make woman cried
they are numerous innocent people sacrificed because of wars
They are so many woman like the woman in picture above,
cried because of their life which cannot be choose

Military is what lead to wars, and violent,
You may say military is necessary for every countries in order to protect their own countries.
but, if nobody have the intention to start, wars will never come
if nobody invent the weapon, world peace can achieve
However, it seem too far and impossible to achieve ...

It make me think of last symposium I attended, when a peace activist given speech and was surprised to know that most of the delegates (including me) were not believed that world peace can achieve, especially in short term.
What make me left deep impression about this peace activist,Dr Hakim,Founder of Afghan Youth Peace Volunteer ,it is because he strongly believe it's achievable..."Why not love?"

Even our own country issues, I think not many of us aware of it....
Sometime we think that even we concern about it, we can't change the situation
Even you oppose certain thing, it will still follow those with more power or with majority people

Therefore you may think petition will not work,
no matter it's work or not, at least this petition create awareness to public,
It let more people to know the current situation happened in a part of the world we are,
this small action may create bigger effect in world than your thought


In the name of PEACE we urge you to join this campaign. Sign here to show your solidarity with the lovers of peace. Spread this message and persuade your friends and relatives to endorse this call ----- NO TO MILITARY INTERVENTION IN SYRIA; NO TO MILITARY STRIKES AGAINST IRAN.

More infomation and petition can sign at here....
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/no-to-military-intervention-in-syria-no-to-military-strikes-against-iran/

p/s: JUST is holding an In-house forum on next Saturday(11th February 2012) at JUST office, with topic "What Religion Means to Me in the Context of a Multi-religious World". You are welcome to join this forum.




A day with Rohingyas Refugee Kids,Darul Uloom Blossom Garden

Before start the topic, I would like to apologize about the late update of my blog
Recently I'm busy with my final exam, and I still have 3 papers next week to go,
After the exam, I can enjoy my holiday and the festival I look forward every year, Chinese New Year!!!!
So, my condition now is writing this post to relieve stress...haha!!

As I promised on last post, This post is also related to refugee kids,
and this time the kids are from Rohingyas,
You may wonder, Who are Rohingyas??
I'm curious about it too before going...
and It's a long story again to tell ( about country history....LOL!!) Even the director of Darul Uloom Blossom Garden told a long story to explain to us too....haha!!

So ,to summarise, this ethnic of refugees have uprooted from their homes and forced to live as illegal immigrants in Bagladesh, Pakistan,Malaysia and Thailand, after their home country, Myanmar denied their citizenship due to some political and conflict reason.
and One of the place of their living in Malaysia is at Klang, and their children are sent to Darul Uloom Blossom Garden for education.


This is the 1st post-event after the IYEP5 programmes. Some of us joined this visit and we gathered at JUST office. Here the look!!! ( If you don't know what is IYEP and JUST, pls refer previous post)


and here the children!! Children are from different age group, but need to study in a small house together...
From their website info, they are around 64 students regularly enrolled in some classes and 3 teachers are serving on this institution.

They have the right to have formal education, but they can't,
The children are innocent, however from the day they born, they are refugees,
They can't choose their life they want to be...
luckily they have place for them to gain some fundamental knowledge
( For your infomation, in Malaysia, refugee children are not allowed to go to public schools like us )
Although they are not as lucky as us, they are still happy and content with their life..
These children just like us....but they are "stateless"

The purpose of the visit is to bring some joy and have fun with them...
We teach them to sing song , learn English and Math from the games.....

See how joyful the children are !!! I'm mixing with the children and play together with them!!
I felt like I'm still children in sudden ( haha!!!! they are energetic too...)
Hurray !!!

Group photo of us with Ustaz Mohammad Sadek, director of Darul Uloom Blossom Garden.

Photo credit to Enjay and My HTC Mozart!!!

For more infomation about Rohingyas and Darul Uloom Blossom Garden : http://blossomgarden.webs.com/whoarerohingyas.htm
Address : Lot 1073-A, Batu 1 ¾ KG Sungai Pinang Dalam, Jalan Kapar, 41400 Klang, Selangor

You can help them too, just go to their website to know more on how to help refugee kids.

" It's the little things that make the biggest difference!"

<3

Another blog : http://mush4room.blogspot.com/

5th Inter-civilizational Youth Engagement Programme (IYEP5)

Before end of year 2011, I think this is the biggest debt I need to pay to them....
and the method to pay is writing this post...
Since in the booklet of event, introduction of each participants, I'm being labelled as "blogger"
so, no choice....( but I remember I didn't mention I'm a blogger in application...quite weird, but it my honour too....haha!!!)


It was a 5days 4 nights programme, organised by International Movement for A Just World (JUST)
JUST is one of the NGO in Malaysia with main objective to develop public awareness about iniquities and injustices in the existing global system, and to nurture deeper appreciation among people less fortunate in the world by create better understanding to the young generation.

Inter-civilizational Youth Engagement Program (IYEP) is an annual JUST event and it come to 5th year in 2011.It held at Shah Village Hotel in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.


with the theme YOUTH: HOW TO BUY BACK YOUR FUTURE?
This theme attracted me to join... and I was wondering what will discuss in this programme.

So surprise that my essay entitled " What debt? Oh that debt..." written during application was include in the booklet.....( shy leh,pls don't read what I wrote lah....haha)
Welcome Speech from Dr Chandra Muzaffar, President of the JUST.


One of the speakers, Dr. Mohd Yunus bin Yasin
I like how he presented his speech, in unique way,
like the picture below, showing a other country note
Another speaker, Mr. John Cheong Zhit Hou, who is an ex-JUST YLP participant, sharing his experience about anti-corruption in Malaysia.

Throughout the programme, We were using World Cafe concept to deliver and expand our idea and opinion, which I feel an effective way to absorb all infomation in a short time.

and here are some work done by using World cafe concept, It's combining 4 mahjong paper together and we just draw and write anything you would like to share about certain topics.
The discussion divide into 3 parts: What is Debt? Who Created Debt? and How Do We Repay Debt?
And it mainly divided into several major points such as social values, culture, environment, economics, individual and community responsibility.

Besides discussion, we were doing a simple questionnaire to understand ourselves better on our learn style. I'm balancing type, which is flexible in moving around with many style but I must admit that I'm indecisiveness....( quite accurate in some sense.....)

Our "sugar cube"...actually it's like a mailbox and we can send our "secret" messages to anyone through this "sugar cube"
JUST is also the partner of Charter for Compassion , and all participants were involved in the launch of The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World . More infomation about this launch you can go to this link .


One of the speaker, Dr Shad Faruqi, who share his thought on dead penalty in some countries. It is still a controversy whether dead penalty should abolish or not...

In the end of the night of 11November 2011, I signed the charter and poppies were placed on a ‘field". There is a long story about the poppies flower, and this flower is a remembrance of those who died in order to get freedom.( if I'm not wrong.....)
We had some performances such as sketch, singing, dancing...etc to spread our words to create non-violent world, I'm singing "We Are the World" with all the participants.


In another day, we were spreading our love by spending hours with refugee kids,
Here a group photo and we were excited to meet the kids...

The kids are around 7- 18 years old and most of them are not really understand English, but the communication between them were not affected by language barrier.

We prepared games, football challenges and have fun with them..They are energetic ( but I'm thinking I'm old already....haizzz.....).

I felt contented on what I have....and I'm lucky, live in a peaceful country,having free education.....
What I deserved everytime when I becoming a volunteer, I will appreciate what I have now, ( and I should learn more on how to deal with the children so that next time I can give more fun to the children.....hahahaha.....)

I appreciated I have a nice food throughtout the 5days 4 nights, a nice place to stay

appreciate that I able to know new friends from many other countries and background....
To end the post, I shared some of the words from my last group of presentation during the programme...( I think some of us feel familiar with this sentences right??)

Want to know more about JUST ? : http://www.just-international.org/

Photo credit to : Ida, Enjay and my HTC Mozart (haha!!!!) .....

Look forward for my next post
A day with Rohingyas Refugee Kids,Darul Uloom Blossom Garden

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