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Burma citizens are majority at a shelter home in India?s North East
state
Aizawl (Mizoram State), July 19, 2001
Mizzima News Group (www.mizzima.com)
Orphans, drug-addicts, mad persons from Burma occupy 70% of total
residents of a ?shelter home? in Aizawl, the capital of Mizoram State.
?Thutak Nunpuitu Team (TNT)?, a Christian de-addiction center and a
shelter for homeless, has been treating both Indians and Burmese
citizens for the past eleven years in this remote place without much
attention from the outside world.
The TNT, situated in Zuangtui town (outside Aizawl) has about eight
hundreds ?patients and orphans? and about 70 per cent of them are from
Burma, which has international border with this mountainous state of
India?s North East.
Children of young age, homeless women and men, drug addicts and mad
persons originally from Burma, mostly from Chin State are the majority
?patients? in the center.
The TNT (which means ?helping needy people is having a real life?) was
founded by one-man mission by one Mizo national Mr. Sangthankima in
1988. It had only one homeless person when it was founded but it has now
become a home for more than one thousands help-needed persons both men
and women.
?We treat them through religion, with the help of God?, said Mr.
Lalnuntluanga Fanai, a social worker who has been working in the center
for the past three years. There are about 200 drug-addicts who are being
camped in the center for de-addiction. ?They have to stay here minimum
six months. During that period, they also treat themselves by sharing
experiences, by listening to Jesus?, he added. The center?s motto is
?God gives us daily bread?, he added.
There are several Burmese immigrants, mostly Chin nationals, both men
and women who are receiving the treatment and shelter in the center.
Among them is a patient who is under going de-addiction treatment. He is
from Chin State of Burma but he has been living in Mizoram for the past
thirteen years. Before he came to the center, he worked as a hard
laborer in Aizawl. He started using drugs a year ago. After some months,
he changed to injection (of Proxyvon) and his right leg had to be
operated due to drug injections. He has been in the center for two
months and his condition is stable now.
There are about 300 children in the center. The center provides them
with education, food, and cloths until they can live by themselves in
outside world. A few months ago, a Burmese who is working in Aizawl came
to the center and kept two of his children, as he could no longer feed
them. The two boys, who forget Burmese language now, are otherwise doing
well.Notsurprisingly, noofficials from Burmese government have ever
visited the center.
?We don?t receive any assistance from governmental or international
agencies. We run the center by the grace of God and with the
contributions. People come and visit us everyday and they contribute
money to the center?, said a voluntary worker. There are about 60
voluntary workers in this center alone. There are two more centers under
TNT in Mizoram State; one is in Lunglei and another is in Kolasib town.
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<center><font color="#FF6600"><font size=+2>Burma citizens are majority
at a shelter home in India?s North East state</font></font></center>
<p><font color="#000099"><font size=+1>Aizawl (Mizoram State), July 19,
2001</font></font>
<br><font color="#000099"><font size=+1>Mizzima News Group (www.mizzima.com)</font></font>
<p><font size=+1>Orphans, drug-addicts, mad persons from Burma occupy 70%
of total residents of a ?shelter home? in Aizawl, the capital of Mizoram
State. ?Thutak Nunpuitu Team (TNT)?, a Christian de-addiction center and
a shelter for homeless, has been treating both Indians and Burmese citizens
for the past eleven years in this remote place without much attention from
the outside world.</font>
<p><font size=+1>The TNT, situated in Zuangtui town (outside Aizawl) has
about eight hundreds ?patients and orphans? and about 70 per cent of them
are from Burma, which has international border with this mountainous state
of India?s North East.</font>
<p><font size=+1>Children of young age, homeless women and men, drug addicts
and mad persons originally from Burma, mostly from Chin State are the majority
?patients? in the center.</font>
<p><font size=+1>The TNT (which means ?helping needy people is having a
real life?) was founded by one-man mission by one Mizo national Mr. Sangthankima
in 1988. It had only one homeless person when it was founded but it has
now become a home for more than one thousands help-needed persons both
men and women.</font>
<p><font size=+1>?We treat them through religion, with the help of God?,
said Mr. Lalnuntluanga Fanai, a social worker who has been working in the
center for the past three years. There are about 200 drug-addicts who are
being camped in the center for de-addiction. ?They have to stay here minimum
six months. During that period, they also treat themselves by sharing experiences,
by listening to Jesus?, he added. The center?s motto is ?God gives us daily
bread?, he added.</font>
<p><font size=+1>There are several Burmese immigrants, mostly Chin nationals,
both men and women who are receiving the treatment and shelter in the center.
Among them is a patient who is under going de-addiction treatment. He is
from Chin State of Burma but he has been living in Mizoram for the past
thirteen years. Before he came to the center, he worked as a hard laborer
in Aizawl. He started using drugs a year ago. After some months, he changed
to injection (of Proxyvon) and his right leg had to be operated due to
drug injections. He has been in the center for two months and his condition
is stable now.</font>
<p><font size=+1>There are about 300 children in the center. The center
provides them with education, food, and cloths until they can live by themselves
in outside world. A few months ago, a Burmese who is working in Aizawl
came to the center and kept two of his children, as he could no longer
feed them. The two boys, who forget Burmese language now, are otherwise
doing well.Notsurprisingly, noofficials from Burmese government have ever
visited the center.</font>
<p><font size=+1>?We don?t receive any assistance from governmental or
international agencies. We run the center by the grace of God and with
the contributions. People come and visit us everyday and they contribute
money to the center?, said a voluntary worker. There are about 60 voluntary
workers in this center alone. There are two more centers under TNT in Mizoram
State; one is in Lunglei and another is in Kolasib town.</font>
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