These immigrants are having a hard time learning to live in this country but compared to the life they came from, they are happy. - - Donna Poisl
By DONALD BRADLEY, The Kansas City Star
Paw Wah Tamla bounces between getting her people to remember and forget.
Her people are the Karen who fled oppression to come here from a land they still call Burma.
As a community leader, she wants them to remember their proud history and customs. For several weeks, she’s helped plan today’s celebration of the Karen New Year, a pageant complete with traditional costumes, food and dance.
But as a parent liaison for the North Kansas City School District, she works to get them to forget the crude ways of the refugee camps along the Thai-Myanmar border where they all lived before coming to Kansas City.
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Monday, January 31, 2011
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