Accommodation for 3 Migrant Families from Burma, Mae Sot
Salim does not live with his family but instead shares an abandoned house with 3 other ‘street’ families.
Child Labour for $1 Per Day
Migrant child worker showing off his days’ wage, 1,000 kyat (USD$1). Greg Antos, deputy director World Education Consortium, Thailand: “The biggest problem confronted by migrant children is that they are kept out of school by parents or withdrawn from school by their parents to work.”
Birth Registration by Footprint
A Burmese migrant child is registered by footprint at the Dr Cynthia’ Mae Tao Clinic on the Thailand Burma border. Between 5-15 children are born at the clinic each day. These children are stateless, entitled to neither Thai nor Burmese citizenship. Dr Cynthia says, “The issue of stateless or no identity, this is a big issue. How will international organisations or the local Thai and the Burmese government deal with it?”
Gambling When There\'s Little to Gamble
In the migrant community, poverty brings with it domestic issues including alcoholism, gambling and domestic violence. World Education Consortium has an outreach program on the border which works with migrant communities and specifically deals with the effects of domestic violence and alcoholism.
Falciparum Malaria at the Shoklo Malaria Clinic, Thai Burma Border
Saw ‘Z’, (name unkown) lives only 10 kilometres from the SMRU Malaria Clinic but was within days of dying of falciparum malaria. His parents, illegal Burmese migrants working in a rural district, cannot pass through the Thai military road blocks in order to get to the clinic. Saw ‘Z’ was taken to the clinic by the photographer.
Cerebral Palsy at the SAW Safe House
A disabled child at Social Action for Women (SAW) safe house and orphanage. SAW takes in orphans, abandoned children, disabled children and children that have been subjected to domestic violence or sexual abuse. SAW has (very) limited resources with older children acting as carers for the young.
Food Handout to Migrants from Burma, Mae Sot
A Burmese migrant cooks up a nightly cauldron of soup which she donates to some the poorest migrant children living in the Burmese Muslim quarter of Mae Sot. Many of these are the children of rubbish collectors that spend the day searching through the town’s rubbish bins.
HIV Positive Migrants from Burma
Dr Cynthia’s Mae Tao clinic co-ordinates a monthly excursion to a temple for Burmese migrant adults and children who are HIV positive. Activities and food are provided and monks lead praying sessions.
