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Hi, my name is Anayat Ullah.
I am one of the Rohingyan children--ethnic group of Rohingya.
I have been living in New Zealand for nearly three years.
My main country is Burma but I was born in Bangladesh.
My mom and dad, they became refugees in 1992.
The Einstein name--this name is the name of a scientist, a great scientist
who was a refugee as well.
And this is what our hope was,
to just give a name, so that we can follow the way that he lived to his nation
and our dream was to become something like him.
So this is where we just get “Project Einstein”
Basically Emily and Mark, they gave us cameras to share with 3 or 2 people.
We just took different sorts of photos
and showed it to Mark and Emily and explained to them what are their states,
what are they looking for,
and what are their likes and needs.
I learned how to demonstrate a bit of leadership
‘cause it was based on a group work
and we took some sort of photos and I learned also how to communicate with different sorts of people.
how to deal with different sorts of people from different sorts of nations.
Digital Democracy was the only group or project
that we have had a chance to take photos of different sorts of people who are surviving,
who are struggling from various sorts of things.
In Kutupalong refugee camp, it was really really hard for us to provide a camera
and to take a photo of our family
and to take a photo of the people who are struggling from different sorts of things.
Digital Democracy infected me and influenced me to learn something which is totally new.
Although it wasn’t available for us back there, but when I came here in New Zealand,
I don’t have any problem to use any cameras, or cell phone, or any sort of technology.
Currently I am going to one of the colleges which is Sir Edmund Hillary College.
I finished my last year at college
so I just got one of their scholarships for
Auckland University of Technology to study my Bachelor of Computer and Information Science.
Technology is really growing fast.
this is what I am thinking: if it is doing really well, why can’t I go with it?
‘cause technology is one of the great things--
you can learn different sorts of things although you have never experienced it.