For those of you that have followed our blog closely, you may remember that Amber and I visited a migrant school/orphanage during our first few days of exploring Mae Sot back in October. The sight of those few dozen children, living in total poverty but smiling and laughing anyway, lingered in our minds and in [...]

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Last Monday, we took the Green Bus for a six-hour ride southwest of Chiang Mai to Mae Sot in Tak Province. Mae Sot is located a few miles from the Thai-Burma border, and it’s ground zero for NGOs, international aid workers, and volunteers to assist refugees and undocumented individuals from Burma. The UN estimates that [...]

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