Funding a School on the Thai/Burma border.
Nov 2004 we left Brisbane and flew into Singapore to start our overland trip to the UK. Travelled up through Malaysia and into Thailand and up to Bangkok. After a trip to Kanchanaburi we set off to the border town of Mae Sot (Thai/Burma border). Whilst there we found out about the 200,000 refugees living in the refugee camps and stayed there for 6 months working as teachers with the refugee groups. We then flew home from Thailand to get jobs in the UK. POINT of The THREAD: you never know what experiences life will throw up when you try something!
We now sponsor a school on the Burma border for refugees and will visit in August 2007. We are considering a ride from UK to the school on thai/burma border in Jan 2008 to raise awareness under the "Education for All" banner. If anyone would like to visit the school, find out more about the school or our trip, or help us with funding the school or raising awareness of our trip etc, we would love to hear from you.
Andrew Owens and Wendy Gill
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