by Tin Htet Paing
KAYAH, MYANMAR - Cecilia doesn’t want her father to come back from the rehabilitation centre if he still hates her for studying. “Just study and don’t eat!” he would drunkenly tell her each time he found her studying at home.
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| CECILIA, 18, WORKS ON A GROUP EXCERCISE WITH HER CLASSMATES DURING THE AFTERNOON NFMSE CLASS AT BEHS LOILIN LAY, IN LOILIN LAY, LOIKAW ©UNICEF Myanmar/2019/Min Zayar Oo |
“I don’t want to be like my father,” said the 18-year-old Karenni girl, almost unapologetically, as she sat inside her classroom at a school just outside of Loikaw in Myanmar’s eastern state of Kayah. “I want to become an educated parent who can show her children the right way,” she explained.
