English teaching organized for Bhutanese refugees in eastern Nepal

Elderly people of Bhutanese refugee camps in eastern Nepal are being taught to speak and write English.

According to Sunday's The Rising Nepal, the Bhutanese refugees in the camps started learning tits by bits as per the advice of their relatives who reached the United States and third country through rehabilitation.

It would be easier for rehabilitation in third country by learning this even in old age, said Harkamaya Sunuwar of Goldhap Camp.

These Bhutanese refugees who were illiterate of Nepali letters not to talk of English said it was very difficult learning English in old age.

Balaram Dulal of Goldhap Camp said, "We now know something after very painstaking efforts to learn, but it is natural in such an old age".

Some 100,000 Bhutanese refugees living for the past 19 years in the camps hoping to return home one day have been living in seven camps of Jhapa and Morang in eastern Nepal and English language classes have been arranged for them.

Source: Xinhua