Photo Captions:
1. Some boys play football in the largest refugee camp in South East Asia, Mae-La refugee camp, which is estimated to house around 37,000 people, is located in Mae Sot near the border with Myanmar. Since the military coup which happened in Myanmar in 2021, a greater number of refugees have fled to Mae Sot as political violence has escalated throughout Myanmar. Refugees who live in this camp are guarded by the Thai military and confined to the camp, threatened with fines if they are found by the Thai military outside.
2. Nan Yadanar San, a student, plays the game “heads up” with her classmates in a summer camp organised by the Peach Foundation. Nan Yadanar San is a student at KKB school and she has been studying in Thailand for over a year. She was previously living in a village in Karen State, looked after by her grandmother. When fighting reached her village it was no longer safe for her to stay and she travelled to Mae Sot by herself so she could continue her education. Her parents have worked in Bangkok since she was a baby. She wants to travel the world when she finishes school.
3. A teacher at White school, Mae Sot, Thailand, teaches refugee children from Myanmar how to count to ten in english. At the school they have limited resources and can’t afford electricity to light the classroom.
4. Young girls at KKB school stand in the line to get their dinner. Most of the children who come to migrant schools in Thailand from Myanmar come alone and rely on the schools to house, feed and look after them.
5. Nan Yadanar San plays soccer football with her school football team on public land beside KKB school. They regularly compete with other female football teams in the area and regularly win local championships.
6. Nan Yadanar San sits with her friends in the girls dorm at KKB school, Mae Sot, Thailand. Nan Yadarnar San fled to Thailand herself and boards at the school during term time. Her classmates and teacher have become her family.
7. Nan Yadanar San plays with her friends while they wait for dinner to be served at KKB school, Mae Sot, Thailand.
8. Nan Yadanar San poses for a portrait on KKB school grounds, Mae Sot, Thailand.
9. A student sits and eats alone in the girl’s school dorm in KKB school. Many students that come to study in Mae Sot come alone, sent by their family who have stayed in Myanmar or are working in other areas of Thailand. Many students expect and hope that they will return to Myanmar at some point in the future to be reunited with their family.
10. Nan and her football team pose for a photo after practice one evening.
