Children At Play In Burma, Myanmar
February 22, 2012 by Douglas Crets
On the fringe of the Burma border with Thailand, children play outside the straw hut school in their refugee camp. On my first night at this camp, mosquitoes were biting and buzzing around my face and legs, and the refugee camp director invited me to teach some English to some students. I will remember this.
It was nearly midnight. I had driven for four hours in a bus, then on the back of a pickup truck, then on the back of a scooter, to arrive in this dusty camp of Burmese refugees.
I walk into the grass hut and sitting around a table on low benches are at least a dozen children, pencils in hand, workbooks open, and ready to learn English.
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