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Happy birthday, Van Hur!

Happy Birthday Van Hur!
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We first met in mid-2014. I was at a café, waiting for Yeonmi Park. Yeonmi and I were working together on several projects, including three speeches she was going to deliver in 11 days throughout Europe. As I waited, Van said hello to me and invited me to join a small group discussion he was hosting.
I joined with them, talking about various issues. They invited me to join their discussion regularly, but I explained that I was working on several projects with a North Korean refugee who would become internationally known, so I expected that I would be able to join them sometime in the next year. A month later, Yeonmi gained international attention with a speech at One Young World. When Yeonmi arrived that day, I said goodbye to Van's group, but we stayed in touch. They later learned that the young lady I had been meeting with is the same one that people around the world were talking about. In January 2015, Van joined TNKR as a tutor and has remained a fan and friend since then, watching us grow from a fly-by-night group using the offices of other organizations to now being an official organization with our own humble office.






I still attend discussions he organizes, including hosting two sessions at the TNKR office last year. He also welcomes me talking about TNKR and my activities, and as a result, we have had a few members of his discussions group join TNKR.









This year for his birthday, Van set up a fundraiser for TNKR. Whereas most people on Facebook don't take advantage of the great opportunity to set up a fundraiser for an organization, or they wait until a day or two before, Van posted his ONE MONTH IN ADVANCE. His birthday is April 29th.

Here is the link to his fundraiser.
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