Burmese Refugee Camps on the border of Thailand

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Burmese Refugee Camps On the border of Thailand Presenter: Jordan Small Shanghai American School February 20, 2008

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Jordan Small's vivid images of his time spent in working in refugee camps on the Thai/Burmese border

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Burmese Refugee Camps

On the border of Thailand

Presenter: Jordan SmallShanghai American SchoolFebruary 20, 2008

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Map of border area

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One of many camps

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There are over 150,000 Refugees along the Thai-Burmese Border

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Schools and education in the camps

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Classrooms have only the bare essentials and are often jam packed with children

eager to learn

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Although conditions in the camps are very poor there is not much to

return to.

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But there is hope!

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