February 2, 2017
State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi attended a
ceremony at the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement yesterday
to present cash assistance from the Ministry of the State Counsellor's Office
to persons temporarily displaced due to security reasons in Kachin State.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said the assistance was
intended for people who had to temporarily move to camps due to security
reasons before pointing out that it was necessary to provide healthcare services
for the temporally displaced persons (TDPs) while an emphasis was placed upon
day-to-day food supply and education of children at the camps.
She expressed her desire to contribute to the
education of the children as well as occupational training for adults.
The State Counsellor said she wanted to send all
camp dwellers back to their homes, as life at the camp is not meant to be
permanent, before urging the Ministry of Social Welfare Relief and Resettlement
to make decisions to help them independently.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi also expressed her desire to
help provide displaced women with occupational training for skills they could
use at home so that they would not feel as if their time in displaced camps was
spent in vain.
The State Counsellor went on to say that she hoped
the people of her country would no longer have to live
in such camps. To that end, she said, she has been endeavouring for peace, the
success of which would eliminate the need for such camps nationwide. She vowed
to help people who had to live in such places because peace had not been
achieved, before expressing her intention that the cash assistance should be
spent with the spirit of national reconciliation.
She recognized that there were many different ethnic
groups at such camps, and said she would share with them as a fellow Myanmar
citizen, in lean times as well as in times of prosperity. "It would not be
easy for the promotion of the national spirit, which would unite the country,
if ethnic national people embraced the concept that only Bamar would benefit in
the union," she added before saying that Bamar people would like to live
alongside other national races through thick and thin.
Later, the State Counsellor presented Ks3 billion in
cash assistance to Dr Win Myat Aye, the Union Minister for Social Welfare,
Relief and Resettlement, who in turn presented a certificate of honour to the
State Counsellor, and spoke words of thanks.
U Kyaw Tint Swe, Union Minister for the State
Counsellor’s Office, Deputy Minister U Khin Maung Han and officials were also
present at the ceremony.
Ref; The Global New Light of Myanmar
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