Paw Ray is a remarkable lady. We met her yesterday as she celebrated International Children's Day outside the Has Thoo Lei School and Orphanage outside Mae Sot, on the Burmese border. She had cooked lunch for 3000 children. Normally the school holds 500, the Orphanage 160, but yesterday was special. The celebrations cloak a grimmer reality. Many of the children are malnourished. The school can afford to provide lunch for them (cost 8p) only twice per week children with no uniform may be arrested and returned to Burma as illegal immigrants. A uniform costs five pounds. More tomorrow.
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