It is rewarding to teach students who are so hungry to learn. I have gained insights into their culture and the incredible obstacles they have overcome: losing parents to sicknesses that should have been treatable, seeing fathers turn to alcoholism when they lost everything in military raids, leaving home as six-year-olds because their parents were determined that they should get an education, moving schools multiple times as the fronts in the civil war shifted, uprooting from their home and culture and trying to make their way as second-class citizens in a country with a different language and customs, working long hours to support not only themselves but their families back in Myanmar.

A school in Thailand provides hope for Myanmar migrants.