ပြေးလိုက်ကြစို့ သူငယ်ချင်း

အောက်ကစာကို အီးမေးလ်နဲ့ရထားလို့ တင်ပေးတာပါ။ အင်္ဂလိပ်လိုဆိုတော့ ဘိုလိုဖတ်ကြပေါ့နော..။
အီးမေးလ်နဲ့လက်ခံရထားတဲ့ အဖေရေးတာရော သမီးငယ်တွေရေးတာပါ တင်ပေးလိုက်ပါတယ်။သား၊သမီးတွေက ယူအက်စ်မှာမွေးကြတာဖြစ်ပေမဲ့ မြန်မာကဗျာကိုတောင် ပြီးခဲ့တဲ့နှစ်က အယ်လ်အေလာတုံး အလွတ်ရွတ်ပြသွားနိုင်ကြတာပါ။အခုလောက်ဆို ပါဌိလိုများဖတ်နေကြပြီလားတော့မသိ…။

အခုလည်း ၁၃နှစ်သမီးက ၁၃မိုင်ပြေးပြမယ် ဆိုပါတယ်။ အဲ..မနှစ်ကလည်း ပြေးတာပါပဲ။ မန္တလေးဂေဇကထဲတောင် သတင်းထည့်ပေးဖူးပါတယ်။ ဓါတ်ပုံက သမီးငယ်ဟန်စုယဉ်ရဲ့ မနှစ်ကပုံပါ။
သူ့အသက်ကလေးနဲ့ ပြေးလို့ လူတွေဝိုင်းဆုချလှူတန်းကြတဲ့ငွေကို အားလုံးပြန်လှူမှာဖြစ်ပါသတဲ့။ စာမှာဖတ်ရတဲ့အတိုင်းဆိုရင် မြန်မာပြည်က ပြောင်းခိုသူ ( Refugee)တွေကို လှူမှာလည်းပါပါတယ်။

ဆိုတော့…ကျုပ်တော့ အသက်ကြီးမှ ၁၃မိုင်လည်း မပြေးနိုင်တော့ပါဘူး။ အဲဒီလိုနဲ့ ရံပုံငွေလည်း မရှာနိုင်ပါဘူး။ သူများတွေလှူဖို့ပဲ (မီဒီယာလုပ်နေတဲ့သူဖြစ်တာမို )့တိုက်တွန်းရင်း ရွာဆော်ကြီးလုပ်လိုက်ရပါတယ်။

ကဲ..ပြေးမလား..လှူမလား…

Dear Friends,

My there children will be participating at the San Francisco Marathon on July 25 by joining the “Run for Burma” team to help raise funds for medical training and supplies for backpack medics who travel through the jungles of eastern Burma, treating international displaced refugees in Burma.

They are:

1. Han Suu Yin        – 13 yrs      –  13 miles race (Half Marathon)
2. Maung Ye Than   – 11 yrs      –    3 miles race
3. Suu Myat Than    –   7 yrs      –    3 miles race

Will you considering supporting them by sponsoring them $1, $2, $3, $4 or $5 for each mile I run on July 25th?  Or, would you like to make straight dollar commitment?  Your support is tax deductible and Burma Humanitarian Mission will provide you the necessary paperwork.

You can make a donation here at the personal webpage of Han for all of them: https://secure2.merchantcart.net/runsfm//mywebpage.cfm?pid=494546

Below please also find a personal letter from Han.
And the attached photo is her running last year half marathon.

Thank you for the support.
Nyunt Than
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Dear Friends,

This July, I will run the San Francisco Half Marathon – 13.1 miles through a wonderful city.  I will join more than 20,000 runners on July 25th in this endeavor.

As you would expect, completing such an endeavor is a phenomenal undertaking.  I am fortunate to have the good health and support to pursue it.  It will be a milestone and memorable event for me personally.

At the same time, I realize that this is an opportunity to translate this event into an opportunity to help others.  I have joined a team called “Run for Burma.”  This team is dedicated to raise awareness and funds for a wonderful non-profit — Burma Humanitarian Mission (www.burmamission.org) and for the Burmese American Democratic Alliance (http://www.badasf.org/).

Collectively, we will raise money to fund medical training and supplies for backpack medics who travel through the jungles of eastern Burma, treating ethnic groups oppressed by the Burmese junta.  As one example of the appalling conditions in this part of Burma, one in five children dies before their fifth birthday while 1 in 12 mothers dies as a result of childbirth.  Malaria, an illness that is curable, is the leading cause of death.

Burma Humanitarian Mission makes a difference.  Each $1 donated will buy 40 doses of medicine.  $5 will cure a pregnant woman of malaria – saving 2 lives.  This year Burma Humanitarian Mission will train two-thirds of all new medics and providing over 400,000 doses of medicine.

With BADA, we will help to champion the cause of democracy for all the peoples of Burma.  BADA’s actions to generate the political support and preserve all elements of Burmese culture translates into direct diplomatic and economic pressure on the repressive junta regime.

Will you considering supporting me by sponsoring me $1, $2, $3, $4 or $5 for each mile I run on July 25th?  Or, would you like to make straight dollar commitment?  Your support is tax deductible and Burma Humanitarian Mission will provide you the necessary paperwork.

If you can support me, you can donate one of three ways:

1. On-line at my personal webpage: https://secure2.merchantcart.net/runsfm//mywebpage.cfm?pid=494546
2.  On-line at www.burmamission.org/donate.
3.  Mail a check to:

BHM
2134 37th St NW
Washington DC, 20007

Thank you for your kindness and support.  You will help me transform this exceptional event into a life-saving opportunity for Burmese children and their families far from the media spotlight.  After the race, I will let you know how it went.  No matter what you choose to do, I appreciate your time.  Keep me in your thoughts on July 25th when I join thousands of others on the roads through the city by the bay!

Thank you.

Han Suu Yin
Maung Ye Than
Suu Myat Than