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These will go on the doors of the Grade 9 and 10 classrooms in a school where minority children can learn in their own languages. The significance of this handover (which took place in the library of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where Maung is working on his PhD) is that the schools Maung helped to create have now grown to the point where children are staying on into the ninth and tenth grades--an extraordinary fact in an area where only about 2% of children complete their education in conventional schools where instruction takes place only in the national language, Bangla. This collaboration is helping to change the lives of hundreds of children, and potentially saving the indigenous cultures of the region. 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