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  • 06 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: Students share colored pencils during final exams at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: Children play marbles with rocks before classes start at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: A girl eats a slice of watermelon in front of the snack stand at the Sky Blue school in Mae Sot. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: Burmese girls with traditional thanaka powder on their faces at the Sky Blue School in Mae Sot. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: Students in the main classroom at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: Students run through the hall after class at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: Students run through the hall after class at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: A teacher works with students at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: A teacher works with students at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: A boys works on his final exam for the semester at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: A boys works on his final exam for the semester at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: Students share colored pencils during final exams at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: A teacher works with students at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: A girl thinks about her answer on her final exam for the semester at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: Children play at the side of the school before classes start at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: Children play marbles with rocks before classes start at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: A girl eats a slice of watermelon in front of the Sky Blue school in Mae Sot. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: A girl eats a slice of watermelon in front of the snack stand at the Sky Blue school in Mae Sot. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: Boys walk past the front of the Blue Sky School in Mae Sot. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: Students in a classroom at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: A teacher in a classroom at the Sky Blue School in Mae Sot. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: Students in the Sky Blue School in Mae Sot. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: A girl works on a test at the Sky Blue School in Mae Sot. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: A boy walks through the hallway of the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: Children play with plastic bags at the Sky Blue School. Their parents use the bags to sort garbade during work at the dump in Mae Sot. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: Children play with plastic bags at the Sky Blue School. Their parents use the bags to sort garbade during work at the dump in Mae Sot. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: Students run through the hall after class at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: Students run through the hall after class at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: A teacher works with students at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: A teacher works with students at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: A teacher works with students at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: Students in the hallway at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: A Burmese girl with traditional thanaka powder on her face at the Sky Blue School in Mae Sot. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: A boy stands in front of a wall decorated with his classmates' art work at the Blue Sky School in Mae Sot. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: Students' shoes in front of classroom door at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: A girl puts the communal water cup on top of the water tank in the hallway at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: A teacher collects final exams from students at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: Students take their final exams at the Sky Blue School in Mae Sot. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: Students take their final exams at the Sky Blue School in Mae Sot. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: Students take their final exams at the Sky Blue School in Mae Sot. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: Students run through the hall after class at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: A teacher works with students at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: Students share colored pencils during final exams at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: Children play marbles with rocks before classes start at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 06 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: Children play marbles with rocks before classes start at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.      PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: Boys walk past the front of the Blue Sky School in Mae Sot. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: A girl works on a test at the Sky Blue School in Mae Sot. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: A girl works on a test at the Sky Blue School in Mae Sot. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: Students in the main classroom at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 20 MAY 2013 - MAE KASA, TAK, THAILAND: Burmese patients in the outpatient waiting room at the SMRU clinic in Mae Kasa, Thailand. The clinic is less than 50 meters from the Thai-Burma border and sees only Burmese patients. Thais go to Thai government hospitals. Health professionals are seeing increasing evidence of malaria resistant to artemisinin coming out of the jungles of Southeast Asia. Artemisinin has been the first choice for battling malaria in Southeast Asia for 20 years. In recent years though,  health care workers in Cambodia and Myanmar (Burma) are seeing signs that the malaria parasite is becoming resistant to artemisinin. Scientists who study malaria are concerned that history could repeat itself because chloroquine, an effective malaria treatment until the 1990s, first lost its effectiveness in Cambodia and Burma before spreading to Africa, which led to a spike in deaths there. Doctors at the Shaklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU), which studies malaria along the Thai Burma border, are worried that artemisinin resistance is growing at a rapid pace. Dr. Aung Pyae Phyo, a Burmese physician at a SMRU clinic just a few meters from the Burmese border, said that in 2009, 90 percent of patients were cured with artemisinin, but in 2010, it dropped to about 70 percent and is now between 55 and 60 percent. He said the concern is that as it becomes more difficult to clear the parasite from a patient, progress that has been made in combating malaria will be lost and the disease could make a comeback in Southeast Asia.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 20 MAY 2013 - MAE KASA, TAK, THAILAND:  Burmese patients in the pharmacy waiting area at the SMRU clinic in Mae Kasa, Thailand. The clinic is less than 50 meters from the Thai-Burma border and sees only Burmese patients. Thais go to Thai government hospitals. Health professionals are seeing increasing evidence of malaria resistant to artemisinin coming out of the jungles of Southeast Asia. Artemisinin has been the first choice for battling malaria in Southeast Asia for 20 years. In recent years though,  health care workers in Cambodia and Myanmar (Burma) are seeing signs that the malaria parasite is becoming resistant to artemisinin. Scientists who study malaria are concerned that history could repeat itself because chloroquine, an effective malaria treatment until the 1990s, first lost its effectiveness in Cambodia and Burma before spreading to Africa, which led to a spike in deaths there. Doctors at the Shaklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU), which studies malaria along the Thai Burma border, are worried that artemisinin resistance is growing at a rapid pace. Dr. Aung Pyae Phyo, a Burmese physician at a SMRU clinic just a few meters from the Burmese border, said that in 2009, 90 percent of patients were cured with artemisinin, but in 2010, it dropped to about 70 percent and is now between 55 and 60 percent. He said the concern is that as it becomes more difficult to clear the parasite from a patient, progress that has been made in combating malaria will be lost and the disease could make a comeback in Southeast Asia.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 20 MAY 2013 - MAE KASA, TAK, THAILAND:  Burmese patients in the pharmacy waiting area at the SMRU clinic in Mae Kasa, Thailand. The clinic is less than 50 meters from the Thai-Burma border and sees only Burmese patients. Thais go to Thai government hospitals. Health professionals are seeing increasing evidence of malaria resistant to artemisinin coming out of the jungles of Southeast Asia. Artemisinin has been the first choice for battling malaria in Southeast Asia for 20 years. In recent years though,  health care workers in Cambodia and Myanmar (Burma) are seeing signs that the malaria parasite is becoming resistant to artemisinin. Scientists who study malaria are concerned that history could repeat itself because chloroquine, an effective malaria treatment until the 1990s, first lost its effectiveness in Cambodia and Burma before spreading to Africa, which led to a spike in deaths there. Doctors at the Shaklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU), which studies malaria along the Thai Burma border, are worried that artemisinin resistance is growing at a rapid pace. Dr. Aung Pyae Phyo, a Burmese physician at a SMRU clinic just a few meters from the Burmese border, said that in 2009, 90 percent of patients were cured with artemisinin, but in 2010, it dropped to about 70 percent and is now between 55 and 60 percent. He said the concern is that as it becomes more difficult to clear the parasite from a patient, progress that has been made in combating malaria will be lost and the disease could make a comeback in Southeast Asia.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 20 MAY 2013 - MAE KASA, TAK, THAILAND:  Burmese patients in the pharmacy waiting area at the SMRU clinic in Mae Kasa, Thailand. The clinic is less than 50 meters from the Thai-Burma border and sees only Burmese patients. Thais go to Thai government hospitals. Health professionals are seeing increasing evidence of malaria resistant to artemisinin coming out of the jungles of Southeast Asia. Artemisinin has been the first choice for battling malaria in Southeast Asia for 20 years. In recent years though,  health care workers in Cambodia and Myanmar (Burma) are seeing signs that the malaria parasite is becoming resistant to artemisinin. Scientists who study malaria are concerned that history could repeat itself because chloroquine, an effective malaria treatment until the 1990s, first lost its effectiveness in Cambodia and Burma before spreading to Africa, which led to a spike in deaths there. Doctors at the Shaklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU), which studies malaria along the Thai Burma border, are worried that artemisinin resistance is growing at a rapid pace. Dr. Aung Pyae Phyo, a Burmese physician at a SMRU clinic just a few meters from the Burmese border, said that in 2009, 90 percent of patients were cured with artemisinin, but in 2010, it dropped to about 70 percent and is now between 55 and 60 percent. He said the concern is that as it becomes more difficult to clear the parasite from a patient, progress that has been made in combating malaria will be lost and the disease could make a comeback in Southeast Asia.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 20 MAY 2013 - MAE KASA, TAK, THAILAND: Burmese patients in the outpatient waiting room at the SMRU clinic in Mae Kasa, Thailand. The clinic is less than 50 meters from the Thai-Burma border and sees only Burmese patients. Thais go to Thai government hospitals. Health professionals are seeing increasing evidence of malaria resistant to artemisinin coming out of the jungles of Southeast Asia. Artemisinin has been the first choice for battling malaria in Southeast Asia for 20 years. In recent years though,  health care workers in Cambodia and Myanmar (Burma) are seeing signs that the malaria parasite is becoming resistant to artemisinin. Scientists who study malaria are concerned that history could repeat itself because chloroquine, an effective malaria treatment until the 1990s, first lost its effectiveness in Cambodia and Burma before spreading to Africa, which led to a spike in deaths there. Doctors at the Shaklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU), which studies malaria along the Thai Burma border, are worried that artemisinin resistance is growing at a rapid pace. Dr. Aung Pyae Phyo, a Burmese physician at a SMRU clinic just a few meters from the Burmese border, said that in 2009, 90 percent of patients were cured with artemisinin, but in 2010, it dropped to about 70 percent and is now between 55 and 60 percent. He said the concern is that as it becomes more difficult to clear the parasite from a patient, progress that has been made in combating malaria will be lost and the disease could make a comeback in Southeast Asia.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 20 MAY 2013 - MAE KASA, TAK, THAILAND:  Burmese patients in the outpatient waiting room at the SMRU clinic in Mae Kasa, Thailand. Every patient who comes into the clinic is tested for malaria. The clinic is less than 50 meters from the Thai-Burma border and sees only Burmese patients. Thais go to Thai government hospitals. Health professionals are seeing increasing evidence of malaria resistant to artemisinin coming out of the jungles of Southeast Asia. Artemisinin has been the first choice for battling malaria in Southeast Asia for 20 years. In recent years though,  health care workers in Cambodia and Myanmar (Burma) are seeing signs that the malaria parasite is becoming resistant to artemisinin. Scientists who study malaria are concerned that history could repeat itself because chloroquine, an effective malaria treatment until the 1990s, first lost its effectiveness in Cambodia and Burma before spreading to Africa, which led to a spike in deaths there. Doctors at the Shaklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU), which studies malaria along the Thai Burma border, are worried that artemisinin resistance is growing at a rapid pace. Dr. Aung Pyae Phyo, a Burmese physician at a SMRU clinic just a few meters from the Burmese border, said that in 2009, 90 percent of patients were cured with artemisinin, but in 2010, it dropped to about 70 percent and is now between 55 and 60 percent. He said the concern is that as it becomes more difficult to clear the parasite from a patient, progress that has been made in combating malaria will be lost and the disease could make a comeback in Southeast Asia.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 JUNE 2016 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: A child watches volunteers fill his family's water jugs a water distribution point in Sot Nikum, a village northeast of Siem Reap. Wells in the village have been dry for more than three months because of the drought that is gripping most of Southeast Asia. People in the community rely on water they have to buy from water sellers or water brought in by NGOs. They were waiting for water brought in by truck from Siem Reap by Water on Wheels, a NGO in Siem Reap. Cambodia is in the second year of  a record shattering drought, brought on by climate change and the El Niño weather pattern. There is no water to irrigate the farm fields and many of the wells in the area have run dry.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 JUNE 2016 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: Boys drive their tractors through Sot Nikum, a village northeast of Siem Reap. Wells in the village have been dry for more than three months because of the drought that is gripping most of Southeast Asia. People in the community rely on water they have to buy from water sellers or water brought in by NGOs. They were waiting for water brought in by truck from Siem Reap by Water on Wheels, a NGO in Siem Reap. Cambodia is in the second year of  a record shattering drought, brought on by climate change and the El Niño weather pattern. There is no water to irrigate the farm fields and many of the wells in the area have run dry.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 JUNE 2016 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: People set out their water jugs at a water distribution point in Sot Nikum, a village northeast of Siem Reap. Wells in the village have been dry for more than three months because of the drought that is gripping most of Southeast Asia. People in the community rely on water they have to buy from water sellers or water brought in by NGOs. They were waiting for water brought in by truck from Siem Reap by Water on Wheels, a NGO in Siem Reap. Cambodia is in the second year of  a record shattering drought, brought on by climate change and the El Niño weather pattern. There is no water to irrigate the farm fields and many of the wells in the area have run dry.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: A man holds his son at a noodle stall in front of the Mae Tao Clinic in Mae Sot. The Mae Tao Clinic provides  healthcare to over 150,000 displaced Burmese per year and is the leading healthcare provider for Burmese along the Thai-Myanmar border. Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations to Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: A medic pulls a patient's tooth in the dental clinic at the Mae Tao Clinic in Mae Sot. The Mae Tao Clinic provides  healthcare to over 150,000 displaced Burmese per year and is the leading healthcare provider for Burmese along the Thai-Myanmar border. Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations to Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 MARCH 2104 - MAE KASA, TAK, THAILAND: A Burmese snack vendor pushes his bicycle into the Sanatorium Center for Border Communities in Mae Kasa, about 30 minutes north of Mae Sot, Thailand. He sells traditional Burmese sweets to the patients. The Sanatorium provides treatment and housing for people with tuberculosis in an isolated setting for about 68 patients, all Burmese. The clinic is operated by the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit and works with several other NGOs that assist Burmese people in Thailand. Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. Funding cuts could jeopardize programs at the clinic. TB is a serious health challenge in Burma, which has one of the highest rates of TB in the world. The TB rate in Thailand is ¼ to ⅕ the rate in Burma.        PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 MARCH 2104 - MAE KASA, TAK, THAILAND:  The Sanatorium Center for Border Communities in Mae Kasa, about 30 minutes north of Mae Sot, Thailand. The Sanatorium provides treatment and housing for people with tuberculosis in an isolated setting for about 68 patients, all Burmese. The clinic is operated by the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit and works with several other NGOs that assist Burmese people in Thailand. Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. Funding cuts could jeopardize programs at the clinic. TB is a serious health challenge in Burma, which has one of the highest rates of TB in the world. The TB rate in Thailand is ¼ to ⅕ the rate in Burma.        PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 MARCH 2104 - MAE KASA, TAK, THAILAND:  A man counts out his tuberculosis medication before taking the pills at the Sanatorium Center for Border Communities in Mae Kasa, about 30 minutes north of Mae Sot, Thailand. The Sanatorium provides treatment and housing for people with tuberculosis in an isolated setting for about 68 patients, all Burmese. The clinic is operated by the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit and works with several other NGOs that assist Burmese people in Thailand. Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. Funding cuts could jeopardize programs at the clinic. TB is a serious health challenge in Burma, which has one of the highest rates of TB in the world. The TB rate in Thailand is ¼ to ⅕ the rate in Burma.        PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 22 MAY 2013 - MAELA, TAK, THAILAND:   A Buddhist novice and his friend walk through the Maela Refugee Camp. Health professionals are seeing increasing evidence of malaria resistant to artemisinin coming out of the jungles of Southeast Asia. Artemisinin has been the first choice for battling malaria in Southeast Asia for 20 years. In recent years though,  health care workers in Cambodia and Myanmar (Burma) are seeing signs that the malaria parasite is becoming resistant to artemisinin. Scientists who study malaria are concerned that history could repeat itself because chloroquine, an effective malaria treatment until the 1990s, first lost its effectiveness in Cambodia and Burma before spreading to Africa, which led to a spike in deaths there. Doctors at the Shaklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU), which studies malaria along the Thai Burma border, are worried that artemisinin resistance is growing at a rapid pace. Dr. Aung Pyae Phyo, a Burmese physician at a SMRU clinic just a few meters from the Burmese border, said that in 2009, 90 percent of patients were cured with artemisinin, but in 2010, it dropped to about 70 percent and is now between 55 and 60 percent. He said the concern is that as it becomes more difficult to clear the malaria parasite from a patient, progress that has made been in combating malaria will be lost and the disease could make a comeback in Southeast Asia.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 21 MAY 2013 - MAE KU, TAK, THAILAND:  Dr. CINDY CHU, an American, (RIGHT) consults with her Burmese colleague, Dr. SEZN SEZN THI, about a patient's x-ray  at the Mawker Thai SMRU clinic in Mae Ku, Thailand. Health professionals are seeing increasing evidence of malaria resistant to artemisinin coming out of the jungles of Southeast Asia. Artemisinin has been the first choice for battling malaria in Southeast Asia for 20 years. In recent years though,  health care workers in Cambodia and Myanmar (Burma) are seeing signs that the malaria parasite is becoming resistant to artemisinin. Scientists who study malaria are concerned that history could repeat itself because chloroquine, an effective malaria treatment until the 1990s, first lost its effectiveness in Cambodia and Burma before spreading to Africa, which led to a spike in deaths there. Doctors at the Shaklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU), which studies malaria along the Thai Burma border, are worried that artemisinin resistance is growing at a rapid pace. Dr. Aung Pyae Phyo, a Burmese physician at a SMRU clinic just a few meters from the Burmese border, said that in 2009, 90 percent of patients were cured with artemisinin, but in 2010, it dropped to about 70 percent and is now between 55 and 60 percent. He said the concern is that as it becomes more difficult to clear the parasite from a patient, progress that has been made in combating malaria will be lost and the disease could make a comeback in Southeast Asia. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 21 MAY 2013 - MAE KU, TAK, THAILAND:  A new mother sits with her premature newborn, who is in an incubator, at the SMRU clinic in Mae Ku. Health professionals are seeing increasing evidence of malaria resistant to artemisinin coming out of the jungles of Southeast Asia. Artemisinin has been the first choice for battling malaria in Southeast Asia for 20 years. In recent years though,  health care workers in Cambodia and Myanmar (Burma) are seeing signs that the malaria parasite is becoming resistant to artemisinin. Scientists who study malaria are concerned that history could repeat itself because chloroquine, an effective malaria treatment until the 1990s, first lost its effectiveness in Cambodia and Burma before spreading to Africa, which led to a spike in deaths there. Doctors at the Shaklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU), which studies malaria along the Thai Burma border, are worried that artemisinin resistance is growing at a rapid pace. Dr. Aung Pyae Phyo, a Burmese physician at a SMRU clinic just a few meters from the Burmese border, said that in 2009, 90 percent of patients were cured with artemisinin, but in 2010, it dropped to about 70 percent and is now between 55 and 60 percent. He said the concern is that as it becomes more difficult to clear the parasite from a patient, progress that has been made in combating malaria will be lost and the disease could make a comeback in Southeast Asia.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 21 MAY 2013 - MAE KU, TAK, THAILAND:  A boy with a severe case of malaria lays in his bed while he awaits a lifesaving blood transfusion at the Mawker Thai SMRU clinic in Mae Ku.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 21 MAY 2013 - MAE KU, TAK, THAILAND:  A boy with a severe case of malaria lays in his bed while he awaits a lifesaving blood transfusion at the Mawker Thai SMRU clinic in Mae Ku, Thailand. Health professionals are seeing increasing evidence of malaria resistant to artemisinin coming out of the jungles of Southeast Asia. Artemisinin has been the first choice for battling malaria in Southeast Asia for 20 years. In recent years though,  health care workers in Cambodia and Myanmar (Burma) are seeing signs that the malaria parasite is becoming resistant to artemisinin. Scientists who study malaria are concerned that history could repeat itself because chloroquine, an effective malaria treatment until the 1990s, first lost its effectiveness in Cambodia and Burma before spreading to Africa, which led to a spike in deaths there. Doctors at the Shaklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU), which studies malaria along the Thai Burma border, are worried that artemisinin resistance is growing at a rapid pace. Dr. Aung Pyae Phyo, a Burmese physician at a SMRU clinic just a few meters from the Burmese border, said that in 2009, 90 percent of patients were cured with artemisinin, but in 2010, it dropped to about 70 percent and is now between 55 and 60 percent. He said the concern is that as it becomes more difficult to clear the parasite from a patient, progress that has been made in combating malaria will be lost and the disease could make a comeback in Southeast Asia.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 21 MAY 2013 - MAE KU, TAK, THAILAND:  A Burmese health worker draws from a patient known to have malaria at the Mawker Thai SMRU clinic in Mae Ku, Thailand. Health professionals are seeing increasing evidence of malaria resistant to artemisinin coming out of the jungles of Southeast Asia. Artemisinin has been the first choice for battling malaria in Southeast Asia for 20 years. In recent years though,  health care workers in Cambodia and Myanmar (Burma) are seeing signs that the malaria parasite is becoming resistant to artemisinin. Scientists who study malaria are concerned that history could repeat itself because chloroquine, an effective malaria treatment until the 1990s, first lost its effectiveness in Cambodia and Burma before spreading to Africa, which led to a spike in deaths there. Doctors at the Shaklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU), which studies malaria along the Thai Burma border, are worried that artemisinin resistance is growing at a rapid pace. Dr. Aung Pyae Phyo, a Burmese physician at a SMRU clinic just a few meters from the Burmese border, said that in 2009, 90 percent of patients were cured with artemisinin, but in 2010, it dropped to about 70 percent and is now between 55 and 60 percent. He said the concern is that as it becomes more difficult to clear the parasite from a patient, progress that has been made in combating malaria will be lost and the disease could make a comeback in Southeast Asia.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 21 MAY 2013 - MAE KU, TAK, THAILAND:  A snack vendor at the SMRU clinic in Mae Ku, Thailand. Health professionals are seeing increasing evidence of malaria resistant to artemisinin coming out of the jungles of Southeast Asia. Artemisinin has been the first choice for battling malaria in Southeast Asia for 20 years. In recent years though,  health care workers in Cambodia and Myanmar (Burma) are seeing signs that the malaria parasite is becoming resistant to artemisinin. Scientists who study malaria are concerned that history could repeat itself because chloroquine, an effective malaria treatment until the 1990s, first lost its effectiveness in Cambodia and Burma before spreading to Africa, which led to a spike in deaths there. Doctors at the Shaklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU), which studies malaria along the Thai Burma border, are worried that artemisinin resistance is growing at a rapid pace. Dr. Aung Pyae Phyo, a Burmese physician at a SMRU clinic just a few meters from the Burmese border, said that in 2009, 90 percent of patients were cured with artemisinin, but in 2010, it dropped to about 70 percent and is now between 55 and 60 percent. He said the concern is that as it becomes more difficult to clear the parasite from a patient, progress that has been made in combating malaria will be lost and the disease could make a comeback in Southeast Asia.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 21 MAY 2013 - MAE KU, TAK, THAILAND:  A child sleeps in a ward at the SMRU clinic in Mae Ku. Health professionals are seeing increasing evidence of malaria resistant to artemisinin coming out of the jungles of Southeast Asia. Artemisinin has been the first choice for battling malaria in Southeast Asia for 20 years. In recent years though,  health care workers in Cambodia and Myanmar (Burma) are seeing signs that the malaria parasite is becoming resistant to artemisinin. Scientists who study malaria are concerned that history could repeat itself because chloroquine, an effective malaria treatment until the 1990s, first lost its effectiveness in Cambodia and Burma before spreading to Africa, which led to a spike in deaths there. Doctors at the Shaklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU), which studies malaria along the Thai Burma border, are worried that artemisinin resistance is growing at a rapid pace. Dr. Aung Pyae Phyo, a Burmese physician at a SMRU clinic just a few meters from the Burmese border, said that in 2009, 90 percent of patients were cured with artemisinin, but in 2010, it dropped to about 70 percent and is now between 55 and 60 percent. He said the concern is that as it becomes more difficult to clear the parasite from a patient, progress that has been made in combating malaria will be lost and the disease could make a comeback in Southeast Asia.  PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 20 MAY 2013 - MAE KASA, TAK, THAILAND:  Burmese people wait for word on their loved ones in the SMRU clinic in Mae Kasa, Thailand. Health professionals are seeing increasing evidence of malaria resistant to artemisinin coming out of the jungles of Southeast Asia. Artemisinin has been the first choice for battling malaria in Southeast Asia for 20 years. In recent years though,  health care workers in Cambodia and Myanmar (Burma) are seeing signs that the malaria parasite is becoming resistant to artemisinin. Scientists who study malaria are concerned that history could repeat itself because chloroquine, an effective malaria treatment until the 1990s, first lost its effectiveness in Cambodia and Burma before spreading to Africa, which led to a spike in deaths there. Doctors at the Shaklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU), which studies malaria along the Thai Burma border, are worried that artemisinin resistance is growing at a rapid pace. Dr. Aung Pyae Phyo, a Burmese physician at a SMRU clinic just a few meters from the Burmese border, said that in 2009, 90 percent of patients were cured with artemisinin, but in 2010, it dropped to about 70 percent and is now between 55 and 60 percent. He said the concern is that as it becomes more difficult to clear the parasite from a patient, progress that has been made in combating malaria will be lost and the disease could make a comeback in Southeast Asia.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 20 MAY 2013 - MAE KASA, TAK, THAILAND:  A woman who had gone into shock because of an etopic pregnancy in the SMRU clinic intensive care room at the Mae Kasa clinic. Health professionals are seeing increasing evidence of malaria resistant to artemisinin coming out of the jungles of Southeast Asia. Artemisinin has been the first choice for battling malaria in Southeast Asia for 20 years. In recent years though,  health care workers in Cambodia and Myanmar (Burma) are seeing signs that the malaria parasite is becoming resistant to artemisinin. Scientists who study malaria are concerned that history could repeat itself because chloroquine, an effective malaria treatment until the 1990s, first lost its effectiveness in Cambodia and Burma before spreading to Africa, which led to a spike in deaths there. Doctors at the Shaklo Malaria Research Unit (SMRU), which studies malaria along the Thai Burma border, are worried that artemisinin resistance is growing at a rapid pace. Dr. Aung Pyae Phyo, a Burmese physician at a SMRU clinic just a few meters from the Burmese border, said that in 2009, 90 percent of patients were cured with artemisinin, but in 2010, it dropped to about 70 percent and is now between 55 and 60 percent. He said the concern is that as it becomes more difficult to clear the parasite from a patient, progress that has been made in combating malaria will be lost and the disease could make a comeback in Southeast Asia.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 JUNE 2016 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: A child helps fill his family's water jugs a water distribution point in Sot Nikum, a village northeast of Siem Reap. Wells in the village have been dry for more than three months because of the drought that is gripping most of Southeast Asia. People in the community rely on water they have to buy from water sellers or water brought in by NGOs. They were waiting for water brought in by truck from Siem Reap by Water on Wheels, a NGO in Siem Reap. Cambodia is in the second year of  a record shattering drought, brought on by climate change and the El Niño weather pattern. There is no water to irrigate the farm fields and many of the wells in the area have run dry.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 JUNE 2016 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA:  Volunteers from Water on Wheels fill villagers water jugs at a water distribution point in Sot Nikum, a village northeast of Siem Reap. Wells in the village have been dry for more than three months because of the drought that is gripping most of Southeast Asia. They were waiting for water brought in by truck from Siem Reap by Water on Wheels, a NGO in Siem Reap. Cambodia is in the second year of  a record shattering drought, brought on by climate change and the El Niño weather pattern. There is no water to irrigate the farm fields and many of the wells in the area have run dry. People are being forced to buy water or get water from NGOs to meet their domestic needs.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 JUNE 2016 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA:  Volunteers from Water on Wheels fill villagers water jugs at a water distribution point in Sot Nikum, a village northeast of Siem Reap. Wells in the village have been dry for more than three months because of the drought that is gripping most of Southeast Asia. They were waiting for water brought in by truck from Siem Reap by Water on Wheels, a NGO in Siem Reap. Cambodia is in the second year of  a record shattering drought, brought on by climate change and the El Niño weather pattern. There is no water to irrigate the farm fields and many of the wells in the area have run dry. People are being forced to buy water or get water from NGOs to meet their domestic needs.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 JUNE 2016 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: A volunteer from Water on Wheels fills villagers water jugs at a water distribution point in Sot Nikum, a village northeast of Siem Reap. Wells in the village have been dry for more than three months because of the drought that is gripping most of Southeast Asia. People in the community rely on water they have to buy from water sellers or water brought in by NGOs. They were waiting for water brought in by truck from Siem Reap by Water on Wheels, a NGO in Siem Reap. Cambodia is in the second year of  a record shattering drought, brought on by climate change and the El Niño weather pattern. There is no water to irrigate the farm fields and many of the wells in the area have run dry.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 JUNE 2016 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: A child carries an empty water jug to a water distribution point in Sot Nikum, a village northeast of Siem Reap. Wells in the village have been dry for more than three months because of the drought that is gripping most of Southeast Asia. People in the community rely on water they have to buy from water sellers or water brought in by NGOs. They were waiting for water brought in by truck from Siem Reap by Water on Wheels, a NGO in Siem Reap. Cambodia is in the second year of  a record shattering drought, brought on by climate change and the El Niño weather pattern. There is no water to irrigate the farm fields and many of the wells in the area have run dry.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 JUNE 2016 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA:  Villagers watch as their water jugs are filled at a water distribution point in Sot Nikum, a village northeast of Siem Reap. Wells in the village have been dry for more than three months because of the drought that is gripping most of Southeast Asia. People in the community rely on water they have to buy from water sellers or water brought in by NGOs. They were waiting for water brought in by truck from Siem Reap by Water on Wheels, a NGO in Siem Reap. Cambodia is in the second year of  a record shattering drought, brought on by climate change and the El Niño weather pattern. There is no water to irrigate the farm fields and many of the wells in the area have run dry.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 JUNE 2016 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: Filling water jugs at a water distribution point in Sot Nikum, a village northeast of Siem Reap. Wells in the village have been dry for more than three months because of the drought that is gripping most of Southeast Asia. People in the community rely on water they have to buy from water sellers or water brought in by NGOs. They were waiting for water brought in by truck from Siem Reap by Water on Wheels, a NGO in Siem Reap. Cambodia is in the second year of  a record shattering drought, brought on by climate change and the El Niño weather pattern. There is no water to irrigate the farm fields and many of the wells in the area have run dry.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 JUNE 2016 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: Filling water jugs at a water distribution point in Sot Nikum, a village northeast of Siem Reap. Wells in the village have been dry for more than three months because of the drought that is gripping most of Southeast Asia. People in the community rely on water they have to buy from water sellers or water brought in by NGOs. They were waiting for water brought in by truck from Siem Reap by Water on Wheels, a NGO in Siem Reap. Cambodia is in the second year of  a record shattering drought, brought on by climate change and the El Niño weather pattern. There is no water to irrigate the farm fields and many of the wells in the area have run dry.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 JUNE 2016 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: Women carry their empty water jugs to a water distribution point in Sot Nikum, a village northeast of Siem Reap. Wells in the village have been dry for more than three months because of the drought that is gripping most of Southeast Asia. People in the community rely on water they have to buy from water sellers or water brought in by NGOs. They were waiting for water brought in by truck from Siem Reap by Water on Wheels, a NGO in Siem Reap. Cambodia is in the second year of  a record shattering drought, brought on by climate change and the El Niño weather pattern. There is no water to irrigate the farm fields and many of the wells in the area have run dry.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 JUNE 2016 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: Women carry their empty water jugs to a water distribution point in Sot Nikum, a village northeast of Siem Reap. Wells in the village have been dry for more than three months because of the drought that is gripping most of Southeast Asia. People in the community rely on water they have to buy from water sellers or water brought in by NGOs. They were waiting for water brought in by truck from Siem Reap by Water on Wheels, a NGO in Siem Reap. Cambodia is in the second year of  a record shattering drought, brought on by climate change and the El Niño weather pattern. There is no water to irrigate the farm fields and many of the wells in the area have run dry.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 JUNE 2016 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: A girl carries her water home from a water distribution point in Sot Nikum, a village northeast of Siem Reap. Wells in the village have been dry for more than three months because of the drought that is gripping most of Southeast Asia. People in the community rely on water they have to buy from water sellers or water brought in by NGOs. They were waiting for water brought in by truck from Siem Reap by Water on Wheels, a NGO in Siem Reap. Cambodia is in the second year of  a record shattering drought, brought on by climate change and the El Niño weather pattern. There is no water to irrigate the farm fields and many of the wells in the area have run dry.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 JUNE 2016 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: An empty irrigation canal in Sot Nikum, a village northeast of Siem Reap. Wells in the village have been dry for more than three months because of the drought that is gripping most of Southeast Asia. People in the community rely on water they have to buy from water sellers or water brought in by NGOs. They were waiting for water brought in by truck from Siem Reap by Water on Wheels, a NGO in Siem Reap. Cambodia is in the second year of  a record shattering drought, brought on by climate change and the El Niño weather pattern. There is no water to irrigate the farm fields and many of the wells in the area have run dry.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 JUNE 2016 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: An empty irrigation canal in Sot Nikum, a village northeast of Siem Reap. Wells in the village have been dry for more than three months because of the drought that is gripping most of Southeast Asia. People in the community rely on water they have to buy from water sellers or water brought in by NGOs. They were waiting for water brought in by truck from Siem Reap by Water on Wheels, a NGO in Siem Reap. Cambodia is in the second year of  a record shattering drought, brought on by climate change and the El Niño weather pattern. There is no water to irrigate the farm fields and many of the wells in the area have run dry.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 JUNE 2016 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: A man carries water to his home after his jugs were filled at a water distribution point in Sot Nikum, a village northeast of Siem Reap. Wells in the village have been dry for more than three months because of the drought that is gripping most of Southeast Asia. People in the community rely on water they have to buy from water sellers or water brought in by NGOs. They were waiting for water brought in by truck from Siem Reap by Water on Wheels, a NGO in Siem Reap. Cambodia is in the second year of  a record shattering drought, brought on by climate change and the El Niño weather pattern. There is no water to irrigate the farm fields and many of the wells in the area have run dry.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 JUNE 2016 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: Villagers wait as their water jugs are filled by a Water on Wheels volunteer (left) at a water distribution point in Sot Nikum, a village northeast of Siem Reap. Wells in the village have been dry for more than three months because of the drought that is gripping most of Southeast Asia. People in the community rely on water they have to buy from water sellers or water brought in by NGOs. They were waiting for water brought in by truck from Siem Reap by Water on Wheels, a NGO in Siem Reap. Cambodia is in the second year of  a record shattering drought, brought on by climate change and the El Niño weather pattern. There is no water to irrigate the farm fields and many of the wells in the area have run dry.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    CambodiaDrought087.jpg
  • 03 JUNE 2016 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: Filling water jugs at a water distribution point in Sot Nikum, a village northeast of Siem Reap. Wells in the village have been dry for more than three months because of the drought that is gripping most of Southeast Asia. People in the community rely on water they have to buy from water sellers or water brought in by NGOs. They were waiting for water brought in by truck from Siem Reap by Water on Wheels, a NGO in Siem Reap. Cambodia is in the second year of  a record shattering drought, brought on by climate change and the El Niño weather pattern. There is no water to irrigate the farm fields and many of the wells in the area have run dry.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 JUNE 2016 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: A woman picks up her just filled water jug at a water distribution point in Sot Nikum, a village northeast of Siem Reap. Wells in the village have been dry for more than three months because of the drought that is gripping most of Southeast Asia. People in the community rely on water they have to buy from water sellers or water brought in by NGOs. They were waiting for water brought in by truck from Siem Reap by Water on Wheels, a NGO in Siem Reap. Cambodia is in the second year of  a record shattering drought, brought on by climate change and the El Niño weather pattern. There is no water to irrigate the farm fields and many of the wells in the area have run dry.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 JUNE 2016 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: A volunteer from Water on Wheels fills villagers water jugs at a water distribution point in Sot Nikum, a village northeast of Siem Reap. Wells in the village have been dry for more than three months because of the drought that is gripping most of Southeast Asia. People in the community rely on water they have to buy from water sellers or water brought in by NGOs. They were waiting for water brought in by truck from Siem Reap by Water on Wheels, a NGO in Siem Reap. Cambodia is in the second year of  a record shattering drought, brought on by climate change and the El Niño weather pattern. There is no water to irrigate the farm fields and many of the wells in the area have run dry.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    CambodiaDrought081.jpg
  • 03 JUNE 2016 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: A volunteer from Water on Wheels fills villagers water jugs at a water distribution point in Sot Nikum, a village northeast of Siem Reap. Wells in the village have been dry for more than three months because of the drought that is gripping most of Southeast Asia. People in the community rely on water they have to buy from water sellers or water brought in by NGOs. They were waiting for water brought in by truck from Siem Reap by Water on Wheels, a NGO in Siem Reap. Cambodia is in the second year of  a record shattering drought, brought on by climate change and the El Niño weather pattern. There is no water to irrigate the farm fields and many of the wells in the area have run dry.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    CambodiaDrought079.jpg
  • 03 JUNE 2016 - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA: A volunteer from Water on Wheels fills villagers water jugs at a water distribution point in Sot Nikum, a village northeast of Siem Reap. Wells in the village have been dry for more than three months because of the drought that is gripping most of Southeast Asia. People in the community rely on water they have to buy from water sellers or water brought in by NGOs. They were waiting for water brought in by truck from Siem Reap by Water on Wheels, a NGO in Siem Reap. Cambodia is in the second year of  a record shattering drought, brought on by climate change and the El Niño weather pattern. There is no water to irrigate the farm fields and many of the wells in the area have run dry.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 MARCH 2104 - MAE KASA, TAK, THAILAND: Dr. SEIN SEIN THI works with a patient at the Sanatorium Center for Border Communities in Mae Kasa, about 30 minutes north of Mae Sot, Thailand. The Sanatorium provides treatment and housing for people with tuberculosis in an isolated setting for about 68 patients, all Burmese. The clinic is operated by the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit and works with several other NGOs that assist Burmese people in Thailand. Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. Funding cuts could jeopardize programs at the clinic. TB is a serious health challenge in Burma, which has one of the highest rates of TB in the world. The TB rate in Thailand is ¼ to ⅕ the rate in Burma.        PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 MARCH 2104 - MAE KASA, TAK, THAILAND: A medic takes a blood draw on the husband of a tuberculosis patient at the Sanatorium Center for Border Communities in Mae Kasa, about 30 minutes north of Mae Sot, Thailand. So far the man has tested negative for TB. The Sanatorium provides treatment and housing for people with tuberculosis in an isolated setting for about 68 patients, all Burmese. The clinic is operated by the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit and works with several other NGOs that assist Burmese people in Thailand. Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. Funding cuts could jeopardize programs at the clinic. TB is a serious health challenge in Burma, which has one of the highest rates of TB in the world. The TB rate in Thailand is ¼ to ⅕ the rate in Burma.        PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 MARCH 2104 - MAE KASA, TAK, THAILAND:  The Sanatorium Center for Border Communities in Mae Kasa, about 30 minutes north of Mae Sot, Thailand. The Sanatorium provides treatment and housing for people with tuberculosis in an isolated setting for about 68 patients, all Burmese. The clinic is operated by the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit and works with several other NGOs that assist Burmese people in Thailand. Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. Funding cuts could jeopardize programs at the clinic. TB is a serious health challenge in Burma, which has one of the highest rates of TB in the world. The TB rate in Thailand is ¼ to ⅕ the rate in Burma.        PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 MARCH 2104 - MAE KASA, TAK, THAILAND:  A patient swallows some of the 20 pills he has to take every day for treatment of drug resistant tuberculosis at the Sanatorium Center for Border Communities in Mae Kasa, about 30 minutes north of Mae Sot, Thailand. The Sanatorium provides treatment and housing for people with tuberculosis in an isolated setting for about 68 patients, all Burmese. The clinic is operated by the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit and works with several other NGOs that assist Burmese people in Thailand. Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. Funding cuts could jeopardize programs at the clinic. TB is a serious health challenge in Burma, which has one of the highest rates of TB in the world. The TB rate in Thailand is ¼ to ⅕ the rate in Burma.        PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 03 MARCH 2104 - MAE KASA, TAK, THAILAND:  A patient swallows some of the 20 pills she has to take every day for treatment of drug resistant tuberculosis at the Sanatorium Center for Border Communities in Mae Kasa, about 30 minutes north of Mae Sot, Thailand. The Sanatorium provides treatment and housing for people with tuberculosis in an isolated setting for about 68 patients, all Burmese. The clinic is operated by the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit and works with several other NGOs that assist Burmese people in Thailand. Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. Funding cuts could jeopardize programs at the clinic. TB is a serious health challenge in Burma, which has one of the highest rates of TB in the world. The TB rate in Thailand is ¼ to ⅕ the rate in Burma.        PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: A health worker, right, helps a new mother swaddle her baby in the OB/Gyn ward at the Mae Tao Clinic. The Mae Tao Clinic provides  healthcare to over 150,000 displaced Burmese per year and is the leading healthcare provider for Burmese along the Thai-Myanmar border. Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations to Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: A noodle vendor at the Mae Tao Clinic in Mae Sot. The Mae Tao Clinic provides  healthcare to over 150,000 displaced Burmese per year and is the leading healthcare provider for Burmese along the Thai-Myanmar border. Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations to Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable.     PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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