Wai Hnin’s Jump For Freedom

၈၈မ်ိဳးဆက္ေက်ာင္းသားေခါင္းေဆာင္ ကိုျမေအး၏ သမီးျဖစ္သူ မေ၀ႏွင္းပြင့္သုန္က ေအာက္တိုဘာလ(၁၆)ရက္ေန႔မွာ ေပ(၁၆၀)အျမင့္ကခုန္ခ်တဲ့ႏုိင္ငံေရးလႈပ္ရွားမႈ

(၈၈)မ်ဳိးဆက္သစ္ေက်ာင္းသားေခါင္းေဆာင္ကိုျမေအး

 မေဝႏွင္းပြင့္သုန္

Online fundraising

Please sponsor my bungee jump for Burma’s political prisoners

I am 21 years old and a refugee from Burma. I work as a Campaigns Officer for the Burma Campaign UK.

On Saturday 16th October 2010 at the O2 Arena in London I am doing a 160 feet bungee. I am scared of heights and I am fearful about the jump.

Wai Hnin

But my fear is nothing compared to what my father, Mya Aye, the more than 2,100 political prisoners in Burma and of course, Aung San Suu Kyi have gone through.

I want to raise money for the Burma Campaign UK so that we can campaign to free all political prisoners in the country. Please support me in my jump by sponsoring me now.

My father is in jail for trying to get freedom and democracy for his people. He was arrested over three years ago, at the start of the democracy uprising, which became known as the “Saffron Revolution”. He is serving a 65 year prison sentence because he wants what you and I want - democracy and freedom in Burma.

When I think of my father in jail I cry. I feel like I will never see him again. Like any daughter, I love my father – but I am also very proud of what he has done to stand up for the people of Burma.

My father, Mya Aye

That is why I am telling you my story and need to ask you to please to sponsor my jump for the Burma Campaign UK.

My father was one of the leaders of the democracy uprising in 1988 and he was in prison then for 8 years. He was in jail when I was born in 1989 and the first time I saw him was through iron bars in Insein prison. I was a little girl, just four years old.

I grew up without my father, and now I face the possibility of never seeing him again. I am determined not to let this happen. I know that together, we can work to free the prisoners if we can put enough pressure on the generals, but I need your help.

Thank you for your support.

Wai Hnin