Hello Fellow laborers,
The laws have changed again! It seems to me like they keep changing the laws every month or so.
In order for us to bring students from Myanmar (Burma) to Legacy in Thailand, we must have them attend a Thai language school. In order to attend a Thai language school, they must acquire an Education Visa (ED visa). In order to acquire an ED visa, we must pay a local language school a yearly fee for them to attend on Sundays. They can then attend Legacy school on weekdays.
All the smaller schools can no longer request and get ED visas for Myanmar nationals. Only one school in Chiang Mai is recognized by the Ministry of Education, so we must send our Burma students to only that one school. All the smaller schools are being run out of business (Do you smell a rat?).
Both Toomya Shwe and Kawn Yee, students from the COG in Burma, must now go to Laos to get ED visas. The large language school in Chiang Mai will issue a letter for each that is approved by the Thailand Ministry of Education, so that the Thai embassy in Laos will give them an ED visa. Legacy is not recognized by the Ministry of Education since we are chartered by the Ministry of Culture, not the Ministry of Education.
The cost for them to attend the large Thai language school is now 1500 USD per student per year. This is outrageous, but since this one large school has a monopoly, they can take advantage, particularly if one is sponsored by an American foundation.
This means we need to find sponsors for both Kawn Yee and Toomya Shwe for this next school year of USD 1500 each. If you or your charitable organization can help, please let us know. We have one month only to get Toomy back from Burma and get them off to Laos to get the ED visas.
This is an emergency request. Toomya has only one more year to go and he will graduate. Kawn Yee is studying in her first year at Legacy. Please let us know if you can help.
With great appreciation,
T. Leon Sexton
