Chris Laufer, Coordinator of the Midland-based Faces of Children, shares this photo essay on refugee children at Thai/Burma border, living in a camp similar to that visited by the mission to Thailand that FOC sponsored in 2008.
"At first glance, watching a group of children happily laughing and playing football in the north of Thailand, along the Myanmar/Burma border seems as any other school children, but these children are only a few of the some 140,000 Burmese living along the Thai-Burma border," Stacey Winston writes in this report accompanying the photo essay on alertnet.org. "For nearly twenty five years, thousands have fled from armed fighting in Burma/Myanmar crossing the border into Thailand. As the refugees are not allowed to leave the camps in order to support themselves, the refugees are dependent on external support for their survival. This has led to the provision of international humanitarian support."
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