Personal Narrative: Bhutanese Refugee Refuge

This was a story of around 2009-10; I was living in Bhutanese refugee camp in Nepal. I was born and raised in refugee camp and lived until I migrated to the U.S. I was only fifteen years old when I graduated form high school. Back in place where I came from, we finished our high school in 10th grade. I was not only first one in my family but in my communities to finished high school. I was so enthusiastic and excited. In the same, an election for community committee chairman was going on. I had little notion of my community structure and how things were happening. Lots of folks were complaining about public office holder that they were doing lots of corruption and taking bribe from people. There were lots of racial and social discrimination going on. I was inspired by friends, teachers, and family to compete for committee chairman seat. Fortunately, I won the competition with god grace and lots of people supports so I was first youngest chairman and first high school degree holder to hold that office. While I was in an office, I tried to work with all “Class” of people. When I talked about class of people, I …show more content…
When I came back from meeting, I went out in a tour. I saw lot better community than it used to be. I was glad that I could bring some change but later on I saw lots of people became jobless and many people lost their business. I realized that my sanitation and deforestation project plan brought huge impact on people’s lives. When we did deforestation, many people lost their vegetable gardens, banana trees, and sugarcane plants, mango tress and many more. There was huge jump in price at grocery stores because Bhutanese people could not grow crops and vegetable in their gardens so that they had to depends on Nepalese people and they were starting charging too much money for vegetable. Too many people became sick and too much were waiting in hospital