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Drafted Agendas for statewide Dee Ku Festival

The celebration will start at 8am on Sunday, August 12^th, 2012.

Drafted Agendas for statewide Dee Ku Festival

1. Opening Remark by our KnCT President
2. Welcoming Speech by our KnYT Chairman/ or Vice Chairman
3. Wine tasting competition
4. Dee ku wrapping competition
5. Dance competition (Amarillo)
6. Dance competition (Fort Worth)
7. Dance Competition (Dallas)

Grandmother Oo Meh has passed away

Dear all,

A Karenni Grandmother named Oo Meh (born on 1937) lived here in Amarillo passed away yesterday morning 7-7-2012 at around 9 am. She was born in a village called Daw Hso Kyar and came to the refugee camp 1 in 1996. She came to Amarillo, TX in August 2009 with her son, daughter in-law and 5 grand children. She has always been living with this family for most of her live. She has not been sick lately, but she had not been able to eat well for awhile as she did not taste or had no appetite to foods. it's sad to loose a loved one, but we don't make the choice when the day had come. I will be working closely with the family for funeral arrangement and will let you know soon when the burial is going to be. Again, thank you all for all your unity and supports in the time of hardship. Let's keep working together for our Karenni people.

May God Bless you all

In solidarity
Mr. Lu Kayahphu

Deceases in 2012

Karenni that passed away in 2012

1. Ma Rea (Dallas) 2/15/2012
2. Ti Meh (Fort Worth) 4/6/2012
3. Naw Hla Hay (Amarillo) 5/17/12
4. Oo Meh (Amarillo) 7/7/12

First Draft of Audit

Membership fees for 1^st Conference
Houston	1580
Austin	320
Dallas	540
Fort Worth	210
San Antonio	1060
Amarillo	1020
Nacogdoches	?
Total	5210

Expenditures for the celebration
Shelter	1570
Food	928
Supply	560
Guest speaker’s trip	250
Leftover balance	1902

Brief History of Karenni Community of Texas

Karenni people fled the civil war in Burma. They all hoped to find a better place elsewhere after being in refugee camps for so long and not being able to return home. Therefore, for a better future, many of us chose to resettle in the United States and other third countries. However, arrival in the land of opportunity called United States does not always guarantee peace, stability, and security, at least for the moment.

Lu Kayahphu, current President of KnCT

Competing against 15 candidates, he was elected President on June 16th, 2012, with the majority of votes. He said he is happy to serve the community, and he will be looking forward to forming a stronger and better working team.

Newly Elected KnYT Leaders

Hsu Mar (Treasury), Gabriela Noe (Vice Secretary), Elizabeth Sari (Secretary),
Htay Myar (Vice Chairman), and Say Reh (Chairman)

Youth and Media facilitator

Shar K. Reh, Youth and Media for KnCT

Address and Contact for our First KnCT Conference

June 16th, 2012 (Saturday)

Agendas for Karenni Community of Texas Conference 2012

Part A (830am to 11am)

1. Singing of American and Karenni National anthems
2. KnCT Vice-President Bure Samuel’s opening remark
3. Multi-ethnic dance by Houston youths
4. Story of KnCT by Shar Reh
5. Unity song by Dallas youths
6. The ever-changing social and economic challenge of the century by Neineh Plo
7. Modern Karenni Dance by Amarillo boys and girls
8. Youths and educations by Fr. Paul Tinreh
9. A group dance by Fort Worth youths
10. Personal experience by KnCT President Lu Kayahphu
11. A dance by San Antonio youths
12. Funeral contribution presentation by Oo Reh Sor

Part B (11am to 12pm)

Election board committee will take over from 11 to 12pm.
(Election committee officer Andrew Max)

Part C (1pm to 3pm)

1. Announcement of KnCT’s new officers
2. Discussing current and future challenges
3. Laying out actionable future goals
4. Officiating KnCT’s statement release
5. Taking pictures and interviews

1. Youths Conference to be started at 1pm
2. Laying out youths-related action plans
3. Re-election of our KnCT youth officers

Part D (4pm to 8pm)

Singing and dancing sessions
Agendas will be posted soon
There will be at least 18 agendas here

Fr. Paul Tinreh's Tx visitations

This is the schedule of Fr. Paul Tinreh visiting to TX cities from June 11-July 8, 2012.
- 1st week visit - June 11-14, Fort worth
June 15- 17, Dallas

- 2nd week visit - June 18- 19, Nacogdoches
June 20- 24, Houston (Houston will have praying in Notre Dame church on June 23, Saturday, from 12- 3 pm)

A karen-kayah woman, Naw Hla Hay, in Amarillo, Texas, passed away on May 17th, 2012. And she was buried on May 23rd at Llano Cemetery, Amarillo.

Funeral Contribution Report for 2011, 2012 -

funeral contribution report 2011

funeral contribution report 2012 -

Deadlines to remember!

Youth membership fee is due April 30th, 2012
Please tell your youths to give all $12.00 (that's one year membership), instead of $1.00 monthly. That makes it so much easier for all of us to keep records of who has or has not paid.

12-31-2011 Conference Attendants (32 participants in total)

To read meeting minutes, click HERE.

Click here for Funeral Donation Report.
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Recommendation - Dance is to be practiced on weekend

Dance is and has always been one of our Karenni unique identities. And, we love to maintain them. As part of our goals of promoting cultural values in the community, youths across the state are encouraged to prep dance lessons. Even though classes are not scheduled in stones, there is a number of enthusiastic youths taking initiatives in the teaching and practicing of various dances.

Once in a while, we are unexpectedly invited to celebration held by non-affiliated organizations. With that in mind, KnCT is working closely with the youth leaders.

KnCT mission statement

In order to help each other and live in solidarity in the pursuit of happiness, we, Karenni people, held a state-wide conference on January 1st 2011, resulting in the building of a community group, called Karenni Community of Texas. We firmly believe that KnCT plays a major role in the community in bringing people together, preserving Karenni identities, and helping each other in several ways among Karenni families in Houston and also in Karenni state. Therefore, there are two main objectives: One, helping Karenni families living in Texas and in Karenni state and two, preserving, promoting and building Karenni identities.

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Drafted Agendas for statewide Dee Ku Festival

Funeral Program Presentation