Bedrooms at Hsa Thoo Lei
25 Feb 2009 08:53 am
At the Hsa Thoo Lei School in Mae Sot most of the six hundred students return home to their families each evening. The two hundred and twenty students who are in Thailand without their parents live at the boarding house next to the school. Bedrooms are cramped with as many as twenty teenagers in one room. Three tier bunk beds are where they boys and girls sleep; there are no mattresses only a thin plastic mat and all their belongings must fit in a small box. There is no such thing as privacy and with so many people in one small room a full night’s sleep is a luxury.
Do the students complain? Never, they are very grateful to be given the opportunity to be at the school and conditions here are much better than back in Myanmar.