dreams and hopes

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Current location: Suntec, Singapore
Current mood: calm
Entry tags: burma, education, news, singapore

[Article] Of dreams and hopes
They just hope that their children will make it in Singapore, find good jobs and enjoy the life they never had. Mr Myint Han says: 'My wife and I will miss our children, but we will be so happy. At least in Singapore, they will have a future.'

Read here to find out how parents in Burma strive to ensure their children have a shot at making it in Singapore. I think this attractiveness of Singapore towards the Burmese will have a long-term impact in terms of improving lives in Burma. Sometimes, what use are sanctions when there is little rule of law for them to be effective? Better to bootstrap the populace, educate their young and give them what their own state has failed to do.

Sometimes, we tend to take for granted our own universities and schools (due to familiarity and contempt of nonsensical bureaucracies), and we realise that people from lesser-off places actually fight tooth and nail, sell their businesses and property just to get their kids into our schools. While I'm not saying our schools are perfect, but.. you know.. others view them with some unadulterated hope and expectation.

Food for thought..