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(Photo from BarBlut Eugene Sein)
“You cannot get tertiary education.”
Growing up in a refugee camp on the Thai-Myanmar border, BarBlut Eugene Sein is very familiar with that frustrating sentence. An official said it when he was 15: he cannot go to university because people on the border have never been recognized as refugees by the Thail government. So he should give up any hope of doing so. However, those demoralizing hardly affected Sein. “I can shut it down in certain way”, he said, “It was something I did.”