The Tale - Animation

This is my first animation. I maked this animation to enter competition of SAE (Singapour) + El dorado co.ltd (Myanmar). But this animation festival is fail and we losted each the money 5000ks for entrance fee. But they never explain why and they never apologize us. Whatever, this animation become credit one for me.

Education of Burmese Children in Thailand (Photo Album)

Many people who flee persecution from Burma to Thailand are unable to enter the camps as refugees and are therefore ‘classed’ as migrants in Thailand.

There are as many as one million migrants from Burma in Thailand. With limited rights many of these migrants are employed in  D irty,  D ifficult and  D angerous low paid jobs. And what about their children?

 

Though under Thai law all children regardless of status should be able to access the Thai education system the reality is that due to many barriers most migrant children are unable to do so.

These barriers range from fear of the authorities, through to lacking the income to cover school costs such as uniforms and books and not being able to speak the Thai language. An added problem is that education gained in Burma is not recognised in Thailand.  Even if a child has completed secondary school in Burma, they still have to start their Thai education from primary school.

Parents also fear that sending their children to Thai schools will identify their whereabouts and they will be deported back to Burma. Furthermore, these schools do not teach their languages or anything about their culture.

 The result is that many of these children are either forced to work in difficult conditions with their parents or are left at home in cramped and unhygienic conditions, often without minders. Many are consequently found wandering the streets and are vulnerable to all sorts of abuse, trafficking and exploitation. 

 

Visited to the Bridge on the River Kwai (Photo Album)

A Thai young man in Kanchanaburi, Thailand in Chinese new year.
Kanchanaburi is Thailand´s third largest of 76 provinces. It is located 130 km west of Bangkok. About 735,000 inhabitant are living in Kanchanaburi province which borders Myanmar (Burma) at the north-west.

 

It is situated on the River Kwai and the home of the world famous Bridge on the River Kwai, immortalized in Pierre Boulle´s same named novel and David Lean's movie.

 

Internationally famous, thanks the several motion pictures and books, the black iron bridge was brought from Java by the Japanese supervision by Allied prisoner-of-war labour as part of the Death Railway linking Thailand with Burma(Myanmar).  

 

In 1943 thousands of Allied Prisoners of War (PoW) and Burmese labourers worked on the Death Railway under the imperial Japanese army in order to construct part of the 415 km long Burma-Thailand railway. Most of these men were Burmese, Australians, Dutch and British and they had been working steadily southwards from Thanbyuzayat (Burma) to link with other PoW on the Thai side of the railway.