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18 FEBRUARY 2008 -- BONG TI, KANCHANABURI, THAILAND: BILAY, a Burmese refugee in Thailand, walks through a village of Burmese refugees near the Thai-Burma border in Bong Ti, Thailand, about 40 miles from the provincial capital of Kanchanaburi. Sixty three children, most members of the Karen hilltribe, a persecuted ethnic minority in Burma, live at the school under the care of Catherine Riley-Bryan, whom the locals call MomoCat (Momo is the Karen hilltribe word for mother). She provides housing, food and medical care for the kids and helps them get enrolled in nearby Thai public schools. Her compound is about a half mile from the Thai-Burma border. She also helps nearby Karen refugee villages by digging water wells for them and providing medical care. Bilay, who survived polio as a child, said he was forced to do slave labor for the Burmese army before he escaped to Thailand. Photo by Jack Kurtz

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18 FEBRUARY 2008 -- BONG TI, KANCHANABURI, THAILAND: BILAY, a Burmese refugee in Thailand, walks through a village of Burmese refugees near the Thai-Burma border in Bong Ti, Thailand, about 40 miles from the provincial capital of Kanchanaburi. Sixty three children, most members of the Karen hilltribe, a persecuted ethnic minority in Burma, live at the school under the care of Catherine Riley-Bryan, whom the locals call MomoCat (Momo is the Karen hilltribe word for mother). She provides housing, food and medical care for the kids and helps them get enrolled in nearby Thai public schools. Her compound is about a half mile from the Thai-Burma border. She also helps nearby Karen refugee villages by digging water wells for them and providing medical care. Bilay, who survived polio as a child, said he was forced to do slave labor for the Burmese army before he escaped to Thailand. Photo by Jack Kurtz
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