Forgotten currently sponsors a Karen teacher working in a nearby town. Her name is NamPhone and at the present she teaches the children out of her home. In the future NamPhone hopes that Forgotten will help her buy a small piece of land for which to build a school and church upon. NamPhone is very passionate about teaching and is very skilled at the profession. Forgotten sees her as an asset to the Karen People and to the future education of their children, and this is why we feel it to be important to donate and support her cause.
Namphone was born in Burma and moved to Thailand with her family at the age of two. She grew up in the Bawnaw Refuggee Camp and at the age of 18 moved to the Mae Lah Refuggee Camp. At 20 she finished her Thai Standard School studies in Mae Lah and then worked as an English/Karen Language Teacher teaching nursery age students for 4 years inside the camp. She then managed to get the necessary traveling documents to take up a job in Bangkok where she took up several teaching jobs at various schools and also worked as a nanny during this time as well. This was over the course of about 7 years. She then met and fell in love with a Thai man in Bangkok and got married. Shortly after they married and moved to Malaysia where she worked again as a nanny for about a year. She then decided she would like to return to Mae Lah Camp and worked as a Karen/Thai/English/Burmese interpreter inside the camp for about two years! Her and her husband then decided to move to her husband’s home town, which is a little village just outside the town of Metawa. This is where they are at today. Namphone has a passion to teach and has decided to turn a room in her home into a school to teach elementary/primary age children. Her passion is to teach Karen children and to empower them to hopefully one day have enough education to find a good job inside Thailand or in Burma if they can ever go back.
