Schoolboy from migrant workers' school: Thailand
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I met this lad in a migrant workers' school in Northern Thailand. His parents have fled the military dictatorship in Burma which attacks and kills villagers on the border.
His prospects are not good. He is likely to end up working a hard life as an agricultural labourer, like his parents.
His schoolteacher put it best, as he gestured to the lad and his classmates, and the land around, "This is slavery ..... this is slavery".
His parents are condemned to work for minimal and unreliable wages in the fields surrounding the school. Most are on less than £1.50 a day and the recent drought means that their income this year will be even less. This is the real meaning of global warming and poverty. They don't have the luxury of attending learned seminars to discuss whether climate change really is occurring or not.
Schoolboy from migrant workers' school: Thailand
5211
I met this lad in a migrant workers' school in Northern Thailand. His parents have fled the military dictatorship in Burma which attacks and kills villagers on the border.
His prospects are not good. He is likely to end up working a hard life as an agricultural labourer, like his parents.
His schoolteacher put it best, as he gestured to the lad and his classmates, and the land around, "This is slavery ..... this is slavery".
His parents are condemned to work for minimal and unreliable wages in the fields surrounding the school. Most are on less than £1.50 a day and the recent drought means that their income this year will be even less. This is the real meaning of global warming and poverty. They don't have the luxury of attending learned seminars to discuss whether climate change really is occurring or not.