When everyone around me was struggling from diseases and starvation, I was curious about almost everything happening around me. My friends were fighting against malnutrition, and I too had to sleep several nights with an empty stomach. This experience taught me to struggle and learn to do something better to help everyone.
I still remember all those harsh days living in a refugee camp. There were thousands of huts – shelters built with bamboo and thatched with plastic. Living in the refugee camp wasn’t by choice; my family had to flee from my country, Bhutan, due to the regime’s ethnic cleansing policy. So, I was born and raised in the Bhutanese refugee camp. In that camp, hundreds of thousands of refugees reside in their family’s assigned hut, made of bamboo with the help of UNHCR and other aid agencies. My parents lived for two decades in that refugee camp, never quite assured what their status was. They were left in limbo. …show more content…
We lived with a lot of uncertainty about our futures. Nevertheless, my parents always had hopes and encouraged me to believe that I was born to be great. Even though their past was demolished, and their future was uncertain, they had known that the only possible avenue to have a bright future is education¬¬. So, working day and night on empty stomachs, they always struggled to make sure that I learn about something every day. They worked constantly and diligently; by scrimping to save a few hundred dollars, they took me to a nearby town where I was able to enroll in an introductory course about basic usage of the
I still remember all those harsh days living in a refugee camp. There were thousands of huts – shelters built with bamboo and thatched with plastic. Living in the refugee camp wasn’t by choice; my family had to flee from my country, Bhutan, due to the regime’s ethnic cleansing policy. So, I was born and raised in the Bhutanese refugee camp. In that camp, hundreds of thousands of refugees reside in their family’s assigned hut, made of bamboo with the help of UNHCR and other aid agencies. My parents lived for two decades in that refugee camp, never quite assured what their status was. They were left in limbo. …show more content…
We lived with a lot of uncertainty about our futures. Nevertheless, my parents always had hopes and encouraged me to believe that I was born to be great. Even though their past was demolished, and their future was uncertain, they had known that the only possible avenue to have a bright future is education¬¬. So, working day and night on empty stomachs, they always struggled to make sure that I learn about something every day. They worked constantly and diligently; by scrimping to save a few hundred dollars, they took me to a nearby town where I was able to enroll in an introductory course about basic usage of the