A person who I admire ,Sir, Aung Myint Thu

I would like to talk about a person who I admire in my life. His name is Mr. Aung Myint Thu, who was born in 1990, in a small island, in Rakhine state, Myanmar named “ Manaung island or Chuduba island”. At the age of 16, in 2006, he moved to Thailand for his better Education. There, he gained many knowledge and experiences. In that period, we were still under Military Government- Myanmar. He was working for youth development in Refugee Camp (Civil War) which is in Thai-Burma Border.  At the same time, he learned a lot about meaning of Refugee, Civil War, and Ethnic Armed Organizations a lot. After that, he became a teacher at Children’s Development Center (CDC), the biggest Migrant School.

In 2011, he came back to Myanmar and started small local youth supporting organization “Manaung Youth Networking Group” www.myng.network, which is not just in Township level Organization but national level and working with organization around the world. In 2012, he won one year full-scholarship at Kant Kaw Education Center/ Thabyay Education Foundation, which gave him an opportunity to work at Empowerment Program For Parliamentarians (EPP), which is designed to support the Myanmar Parliament -- Members of Parliament (MPs) and Parliamentary staff -- by providing English language classes, professional development courses and occasional seminars and workshops on special topics.  The program was set up in April 2013 with two core activities– English classes for MPs and English classes for Parliamentary staff.  So far, a total of more than 300 Hluttaw/parliament staff and MPs have successfully participated in this program. He was an English teacher (Elementary/Pre-Intermediate) for one year- 2013-2014. He was one of the first staff, working at it. There, he worked with a noble prize winner, Daw Aung San Su Kyi and some top general directors.

In 2014, he came back Rangoon to work at Thabyay again for one year. After that, in 2015, he spent most of his times, building his mother-organization, which I started. He became a well-known young man in Rakhine/Arakan state. Thus, he was invited by some media organizations to support them. Union level youth conference started inviting me as a representative. There have been some invitation letters from Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand for community development dialogue. He met with a former president of Timor-Leste who is also the noble prize winner, Jose Ramos Horta. Before meeting with him, he had already started working with Diplomacy Training Program, which he founded. He met him in Cambodia at the 4th Annual Asian Pace Conference- August 2017, which was attended by Asian Ethnic Armed Organizations.

In 2017, he was invited by Arakan Liberation Party (ALP)/ Arakan Liberation Army (ALA) to work for them, especially at Union Peace Conference (UPC) sine ALP/ALP is in the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA). He became the special consultant to, Mr. Khaing Soe Naing Aung, Vice President of ALP in Economy and Capacity Building in May 2018. 

He has worked for Media Development, Indigenous Rights Development, Youth & Education Development, International Relation Development, and Peace Process Development since 2007. Therefore, he was well-known as journalist, youth and education developer, indigenous rights supporter, Peace-Maker. 

Since 2018 September, he has been actively participating at International Peace Youth Group (IPYG). Working with them, he has already met more than 20 former presidents of the world.

In 2019 November, he established a community college named +Change Maker school in Manaung Island. This school version is to became a united Rakhine State.

I met with Sir,Aung Myint Thu when I was 14 years old. He arrived to a closing summmer english ceremony in my village. He gave a speech and he is a really good speaker.Since that time I really appearciated and admired him. In 2018, the teacher sent me trainings, english school ,

I gained many knowledge and experiences .It was a chance for me to meet with diversity people.

And then now I am studying English language and filling self development in his school. He showed me the way  to set my goal and dream up. I think that if I didn't meet with the teacher ,I will not be like girl. I will be a government staff, get married like that. My life will be really normal. And then I will never know who I am and what I really want to be. I am a lucky girl because I meet with the teacher. I really admire and appearciate to my teacher. Thank you so much my dear Sir,Aung Myint Thu for making me believe in myself .You gave me the the strength that I needed to take the next steps toward my dream.I promised you that one day I must be a professional women .You are not only my teacher but also brother.