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Photos from our third training with over 125 people in a in a Jingpo village. The Jingpo people are also known as “Kachins” in Northern Burma (Kachin State). We split into smaller groups for the information session, then reassembled for introductions and song and dance, and then came back to these groups afterwards. We finished with everyone together and had a competition between these groups based on the information sessions that we had just finished.

The 3rd training took place in a Jingpo village. I have a special connection with the Jingpo people, also known as Kachins in Burma. My Grandparents worked in Kachin State in Northern Burma for many years and came to love those people very much.

I still have family working in Burma stemming from their experiences and connections with these people, and my interest in Burma and eventual decision to come to work in this field and this region can be connected to my families history in the region and to my visits to Kachin State and Burma with my father when I was 19 and later as a University student doing research and working as a volunteer during my undergrad and post grad studies.

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