PRWIRE
Release from zanthii communications
2020/10/07
Australia's first Rohingya beauty queen, Pan Sandar Myint is advocating for hundreds of Rohingya refugees, who have arrived in Indonesia after six months at sea.
A wooden boat carrying 297
Rohingya refugees, including 14 children, was spotted several miles off
the coast of Lhokseumawe city on Sumatra's northern coast by local
fishermen in early September.
The refugees set sail from southern
Bangladesh at the end of March or early April, bound for Malaysia, but
were turned back by both Malaysian and Thai authorities because of
coronavirus restrictions.
There are fears the refugees may have
been held hostage at sea for a period by traffickers demanding money
before allowing them to disembark.
The Rohingya have for years been fleeing persecution in Myanmar for other south-east Asian nations.
Ms
Australia World Universal 2020 national finalist, Ms Myint recently
signed on as the ambassador for the Australian Burmese Rohingya
Organisation (ABRO), and intends to use her beauty pageant platform to
advocate for what has been declared by the United Nations as "one of the
most persecuted minorities in the world".
“Most people assume
that beauty pageants only promote physical beauty, which is not the
reality; beauty pageants aim to promote the beauty of emotional
intelligence and to savour humanitarian values in modern society,” said
Ms Myint.
During the COVID-19 lockdown, Ms Myint has kept active
with many opportunities through her pageantry platform aside from her
ambassadorship for non-profit firms (ABRO & Humanity) including
becoming a translator and language reviewer for Polaron European
Language Services.
With the Ms Australia World Universal crowning
event postponed until March 2021, Ms Myint has also been productive by
launching her own You Tube web series entitled “Empower Success”, which
aims to promote human rights issues and female empowerment.
“Empower
Success Media is my own female empowerment web series on You Tube where
I present on such topics as Cyberbullying and The Art of Make up &
Confidence,” said Ms Myint.
“The Covid-19 pandemic has taught me
that humanitarian efforts are of utmost importance. This is the perfect
time for us all to change our actions to moral and ethical ones to save
our beautiful world.”
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