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Poung: From Refugee Camp to New Beginning November 5th, 2018

Poung shares his story about his family's departure from Myanmar for a refugee camp in Thailand and their experience of political oppression. He reveals the pain of leaving his grandmother behind in the refugee camp when he and his mother were chosen by the UN to move to the US. He confesses how the language barrier challenged him along the way and how he learned to cope with it.