Contact

Mular Lerpwel
Lead Youth Career and Education Coach
mlerpwel@mnkaren.org
651-202-3119

Pong Pop
Youth Development Coordinator
ppop@mnkaren.org
651-202-3103

Eligibility

Summer program is open for enrollment to students who will be entering grades 6th – 12th in the coming 2025-2026 school year. Recommended for Karen and Karenni students attending Saint Paul Public Schools, but not required.

Summer Program

ဖးလၢ ကညီကျိာ်

တၢ်ကိၢ်ခါကတီၢ်တၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤ

ကညီကရၢမံၣ်နံၣ်စိထၣ်, တၢ်ကိၢ်ခါကတီၢ်တၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤအံၤ မ့ၢ်ဝဲတၢ်မၤအါထီၣ်ပှဲၤထီၣ်က့ၤ သးစၢ်အတၢ်ဂုၤထီၣ် ပသီထီၣ်အတၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤ လၢတၢ်မၤလိနံၣ်အကတီၢ်အဂီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. ဖဲတၢ်ကိၢ်ခါကတီၢ်တၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤအဆၢကတီၢ် ပှၤသူၣ်ဘီၣ်သးစၢ်သ့ၣ်တဖၣ်နုာ်လီၤမၤသကိးတၢ်လၢ တီၤဒၢးအချၢ တၢ်ဟူးတၢ်ဂဲၤသ့ၣ်တဖၣ် ဒ်သိးအဝဲသ့ၣ်တဖၣ် ကမၤလိန့ၢ်တၢ်ဒီး ကအိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်ဟူးတၢ်ဂဲၤလၢတၢ်ကိၢ်ခါအဆၢကတီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. တၢ်အဆိကတၢၢ်တမံၤလၢ တၢ်ကိၢ်ခါကတီၢ်တၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤဟ့ၣ်နီၤလီၤမ့ၢ်ဝဲ တနွံဘၣ်တနွံ တၢ်သ့ကဲခိၣ်ကဲနၢ်တၢ်မၤလိ လၢကမၤစၢၤ ပှၤကၠိဖိဒ်သိးကမၤလိန့ၢ်တၢ်သ့ကဲထီၣ်ခိၣ်နၢ်လၢအဂ့ၤဒ်လဲၣ်အဂ့ၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. တၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤခံပတီၢ်တပတီၢ် မ့ၢ်ဝဲတၢ်တၢ်ဟူးတၢ်ဂဲၤသၢမံၤလၢပှၤကၠိဖိအိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်ခွဲးတၢ်ယာ်လၢကဃုထၢဝဲတမံၤ ဒ်အမ့ၢ်ဝဲ ကညီဖိတၢ်ပူၤဖျဲးလၢညါသူးတၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤ(Karen Tobacco-Free Program),ဒိတၢ်ဂဲၤကလံၣ်.(Karen Bamboo Dance) ဒီးတၢ်ထါထၣ် (Karen Weaving)သ့ၣ်တဖၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ.

KOM youth pose and staff at the top of their hike in August 2024 at Afton State Park.
KOM youth and staff pose at the top of their hike in August 2024 at Afton State Park.

KOM’s summer program for youth is a supplement to the Youth Program during the school year. During the summer, youth can participate in extra-curricular activities to keep them active and learning. Some students have the option to learn and practice traditional art forms including Karen Weaving.

A youth sits on the floor on a rug and practicing traditional Karen weaving using a backstrap loom.
KOM youth practicing traditional Karen weaving during the summer program.

Students may also have the opportunity to go on field trips to the Minnesota Zoo, Valleyfair, and more. Through these activities, youth preserve their culture and increase their confidence.

Summer 2025

Sign-ups are open for our KOM youth summer program, which will be a week-long from July 28th – August 1st from 12-4pm at the Rondo Library in Saint Paul. Transportation and snacks will be provided. Get your spot today!

Sign-up here

Dates: July 28th – August 1st, 2025

Time: 12:00 pm – 4:00pm

Location: Rondo Community Library, 461 Dale St N, St Paul, MN 55103

Contact

To learn more about KOM’s Youth Summer Program, contact Mular Lerpwel, or Pong Pop.

Contact

Mular Lerpwel
Lead Youth Career and Education Coach
mlerpwel@mnkaren.org
651-202-3119

Pong Pop
Youth Development Coordinator
ppop@mnkaren.org
651-202-3103

Eligibility

Summer program is open for enrollment to students who will be entering grades 6th – 12th in the coming 2025-2026 school year. Recommended for Karen and Karenni students attending Saint Paul Public Schools, but not required.

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