Chin Student Organization
Chin Student Organization (CSO) is a voluntary organization meant to meet the urgent need for the Chin refugee children to preserve their learning abilities and to protect them from becoming morally spoiled. It was formed on 12 March 2005 by a small group of Chin university students, who fled to Malaysia in search of their life security from the political turmoil of Myanmar.
Aim:
To teach Chin refugee children, who are not eligible for formal education in Malaysia
Objectives:
(a) to help the children maintain their learning skills
(b) to protect Chin refugee children from becoming morally spoiled
(c) to maintain and promote Chin culture and literature
(d) to provide basic educational knowledge and morality
(e) to reveal the hard lives of the Chin people suffering under the control of Myanmar military dictatorship to the world and the Chins who fled to foreign countries.
Hope for the Future:
With the hope that the Chin children be our stars in the future, Chin Student Organization was established in spite of many hardships and confronts. Till today, CSO has been undergoing these challenges. Our hope does not end only with the students of CSO in Malaysia, it goes further. With the increase of students in number, our hope is growing up from the size of a mustard seed to that of a mountain. We have a dream for the future that this organization will be a large foundation for education, researches, and scholarships for outstanding students.
Structure:
CSO consists of six learning centers in Imbi, Loke Yew, Cheras, Sentul, Kajang and Puchong. The Administration office is situated at Jalan Imbi. The Executive Committee is constituted with Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary, Asst. Secretary, Treasurer, Seihnam’s editor and the head-teachers from each learning center. EC is the main administrative body of all the CSO member learning-centers.
Strength:
Currently, CSO has 32 volunteers teaching at respective centers under the umbrella of CSO. In average, CSO has from 450 to 500 students every year. The number rises and falls by around fifty because of resettlement to the third countries. So far not less than 500 students have successfully got out of CSO. About 450 students are supposed to do the terminal examination in November.
