Enrolment at the school, the first in the fishing hub of Samut Sakhon to offer a Myanmar curriculum including reading and writing, is surging as migrants wearied by the poor pay and low status in Thailand eye a return home.
For the 400 five to 15-year-olds crammed into a large community-funded classroom, the lessons are a bridge to a country many barely know after growing up in Thailand.
But their parents’ hopes of a homecoming have bloomed since the ascent to power of Aung San Suu Kyi’s pro-democracy party. (Courtesy of nationmultimedia.com)
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