Contact

Suzanne Olive
Volunteer Coordinator

solive@mnkaren.org
651-202-3112

Eligibility

Students eligible for the mentorship program are students enrolled in KOM’s Youth Program.

Mentorship Program

ဖးလၢ ကညီကျိာ်

သးစၢ်ဒီးအပှၤဟ့ၣ်ကူၣ်ဟ့ၣ်ဖးတၢ်အတၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျၤ

ကညီကရၢမံၣ်နံၣ်စိထၣ်သးစၢ်ဒီး အပှၤဟ့ၣ်ကူၣ်ဟ့ၣ်ဖးတၢ်အတၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤ ဃုန့ၢ်ပှၤမုာ်သးမၤကလီတၢ်ဖိ ဒ်သိး ကမၤသကိးတၢ်ဒီးပှၤဘၣ်ကီဘၣ်ခဲကၠိဖိသ့ၣ်တဖၣ် လၢဝ့ၢ်စ့ၣ်ဖီပဒိၣ်ကၠိ (St. Paul Public Schools) ဖဲကၠိထီၣ်အဆၢကတီၢ်လၢဃိးလါတုၤ တဆံခံလါအဘၢၣ်စၢၤန့ၣ်လီၤ. တၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤအံၤအတၢ်ပညိၣ်န့ၣ်မ့ၢ်ဒ်သိး ကဃုန့ၢ်ပှၤလၢကမၤသကိးတၢ်ဒီးပှၤသးစၢ်တဂၤဘၣ်တဂၤစုာ်စုာ်လၢ ကဒုးအိၣ်ထီၣ်တၢ်ရ့လိာ်မုာ်လိာ်, တၢ်ဆီၣ်ထွဲမၤစၢၤ, ဒီးတၢ်ဟံးစုနဲၣ်ကျဲလၢတနံၤဘၣ်တနံၤတၢ်ကီတၢ်ခဲလၢ ပှၤသးစၢ်ဘၣ်ကွၢ်ဆၢၣ်မဲာ်သ့ၣ်တဖၣ်ဒီး တၢ်ဟံးစုနဲၣ်ကျဲလၢခါဆူညါ တၢ်အိၣ်မူအတၢ်ပညိၣ်အဂီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. ပှၤဟ့ၣ်ကူၣ်ဟ့ၣ်ဖးတၢ်သ့ၣ်တဖၣ် ဒီးပှၤသးစၢ်သ့ၣ်တဖၣ်ဆဲးကျိးလိာ်အသးအစှၤ ကတၢၢ်တနွံတဘျီ ဒီးထံၣ်လိာ်သကိးသးလၢမဲာ်သကိးမဲာ်အစှၤကတၢၢ်ခံနွံတဘျီဒ်သိး ကပာ်ဃုာ်ပာ်ဂီၢ်လၢ တၢ်ဟူးတၢ်ဂဲၤလၢ အဝဲသ့ၣ်ခံဂၤလၢာ်ဘၣ်သူၣ်ဘၣ်သးဝဲသ့ၣ်တဖၣ်အဂီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. ကညီကရၢမံၣ်နံၣ်စိထၣ်အပှၤမၤတၢ်ဖိ ရဲၣ်ကျဲၤစ့ၢ်ကီး တၢ်ဟူးတၢ်ဂဲၤတဘျီတခီၣ် ဒ်သိးပှၤဟ့ၣ်ကူၣ်ဟ့ၣ်ဖးတၢ်သ့ၣ်တဖၣ် ကထံၣ်လိာ်ဖှိၣ်သးဒီးပှၤကၠိဖိသ့ၣ်တဖၣ် အဂီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. ပှၤဟ့ၣ်ကူၣ်ဟ့ၣ်ဖးတၢ်သ့ၣ်တဖၣ် မ့ၢ်ဝဲတၢ်ဆီၣ်ထွဲမၤစၢၤအကျဲဂ့ၤဒိၣ်မးတမံၤ လၢပှၤဘၣ်ကီဘၣ်ခဲသးစၢ် သ့ၣ်တဖၣ်အဂီၢ် ဒ်အဝဲသ့ၣ်တဖၣ် ကျဲးစၢးကျဲၤဘၣ်အတၢ်အိၣ်မူလၢ လုၢ်လၢ်ထူသနူအသီအပူၤဒီးဃုတၢ်ကူၣ်ဘၣ်ကူၣ်သ့အဆၢကတီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ.

သးစၢ်ဒီးအပှၤဟ့ၣ်ကူၣ်ဟ့ၣ်ဖးတၢ်အတၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤ လၢတၢ်မၤလိနံၣ်အံၤကတီၢ်မ့ၢ်ဝဲ- လါအီးကထိဘၢၣ် (၂၀၁၆)နံၣ် တုၤ လါမ့ၤ (၂၀၁၇) နံၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ

မၤလိအါထီၣ်ဘၣ်ဃးတၢ်ကဲထီၣ်သူူၣ်ဘီၣ်သးစၢ်အပှၤဟ့ၣ်ကူၣ်ဟ့ၣ်ဖးတၢ်အဂ့ၢ်တက့ၢ်.

The Karen Organization of Minnesota’s Youth Mentorship Program matches volunteers with refugee youth in St. Paul Public Schools in one-on-one or small group relationships for a 4-8 month period during an academic year.

The goal of this program is to provide refugee youth with someone who can offer friendship, support, and guidance with day-to-day issues as well as in planning for the future. Mentors and their mentees connect at least once a week and meet face to face at least bi-weekly participating in activities that they both enjoy. KOM staff also organize occasional activities to bring all mentors and mentees together. Mentors are a wonderful source of support for refugee youth as they adjust to life in a new culture and explore options for their future education and careers.

Current youth mentorship program year: January – May 2023

To learn more, contact Suzanne Olive, Volunteer Coordinator.

KOM’s youth mentorship program partners with Bethel University’s Intercultural Communications course in the Spring semester.

Learn more about being a youth mentor

Contact

Suzanne Olive
Volunteer Coordinator

solive@mnkaren.org
651-202-3112

Eligibility

Students eligible for the mentorship program are students enrolled in KOM’s Youth Program.

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