As a Day (campus) university student, she never thought one day she would face disturbances in her education life and fled from war. Her dream was to become a teacher after graduating from the university.
However, third-year university student Murosi was forced to forsake university life and turned to a war refugee when the Military staged a coup on February 1, 2022.
Her dream about becoming a teacher faded away after the battles between the coup Military Council and the Resistance Forces were flaring up day by day.
During more than a year after fleeing the War from Demoso Township, she had to move to two different places and faced a variety of problems.
But now, she is currently working as a volunteer teacher that is compatible with her hobby in a war refugee camp in Pekon Township.
“I was with my mother in the early days of the war. But my passion is to become a teacher after graduation. After arriving here, I realized that there was a need for teachers, and I volunteered. I don’t know anything about teaching methods, but I decided not to let my little knowledge be wasted, so I started to teach the children here”, she said.
The tiny school in that refugee camp has been opened from KG to Grade-6 and there are 34 students studying there.
Although Murosi was a third-year student majoring in Mathematics, she admitted that it was difficult for her to teach because she never had teaching experience nor proper training of teaching.
But she is trying her best to teach English, Mathematics and Myanmar subjects for KG and Grade-6 students.
“I am paying as much as I can. But I am still a university student, not a professional teacher. So, both students and I are facing difficulties. In some lessons, I am not able to explain much for them to understand. And the shortage of teaching materials is a problem too. As for Grade-6 students, it is very difficult to study when there are not enough textbooks”, she said.
Along with Murosi, two other volunteer teachers are helping to teach the war refugee children in the school. Among those two teachers, there is a CDM teacher who taught Kayan ethnic students at a government school before the coup.
The CDM teacher said that she is teaching in the refugee camp because she does not want the children who have fled the war to lose their right to education.
“I’m also a war refugee. Now I don’t have any income, yet I want to help the children as much as I can. They are very piteous. They should have passed one grade per year. But now, they were left behind three or four years in their grades. They have lost a lot. Even if the children want to read, they don’t get a chance. Therefore, I decided to start teaching even if my efforts benefit very little for them”, the CDM teacher explained.
The school for refugee children was opened in 2022 May and will be taught as an academic year until 2023 February.
Murosi, who has not yet finished her studies at university, decides to commit her life to teaching the children who fled from the war.
“Education is very necessary, hence I wish for the success of the revolution as fast as it can. After that, the government schools reopen and the children will get many aids. It will be very effective. I will keep sacrificing until the revolution movement finally achieves its goals”, she emphasized.
