We are the People! We are the Pigs !

The life of pigs is not easy in the sty because they have no chance to go outside the sty.

The other animals can come to the sty and say: “hello!”.

What the pigs can do is also say “hello” from the sty.

They do not have a chance to go around outside the sty with their friends.

If the pigs try to go outside the sty, the master will hit them or his dog will bite them.

The life of the refugees just looks like the life of pigs.

We, refugees, are not supposed to go outside the camp.

The camp is surrounded by concrete posts and barbed wire.

The camp has so many gates and many sections.

The children don’t have a chance to play their games like children living in freedom.

People are not allowed to go outside the camp and find work.

They just stay in the camp and do all kind of things like planting, weaving, building,

selling own products, learning, sporting, washing, playing guitar . . . . .

Saw Has Bwea Say

There are many kinds of houses. Some houses are very big and some are not.

My house in the Mae La camp is not so big. We have a small place.

It is a temporary house.

In Mae La camp we don”t have houses of concrete and stones.

And it is also made from wood and bamboo. The roof is made from leaves.

Every year some people are repairing their house in Mae La camp.

The wood or bamboo should be changed every year.

The house is where the humans live and do their daily life.

What we need in our house is happiness, peace, health and a good relationship.

We have kitchen, bedroom, toilet, living-room, all that is important for us.

Usually we spend our time in the house. So the house is really important.

We had a house in Burma. We have four members in our family,

and we had a beautiful house in our green place in my home village in Burma.

We were happy when we were there.

Saw Aiklu

Rice, fish-paste, pork, pumpkin, chili, long beans, eggs.

Chili make our food spicy.

We have a lot of fruits in the Mae La camp.

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The old toilet in Mae La refugee camp.

First we dig out the soil round about five feet deep and three feet wide.

Then we fix the lavatory on top of the hole and cover back the soil.

Then we make the toilet room by some timber and bamboo.

The old toilet is already used in ten years. We can’t use any more. So we have to make a new one. But we don’t have any new place to make it in the refugee camp. So we decide make it below our house.

Saw Baw Sah Htoo

The new toilet of the the bible school, witch can be used by everybody.

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My wounded chicken.

I have just a small place to put the pig and the chicken together. My chicken has been bitten by my friends pig. My chicken is two years old already. She has 160 grand children. Sometimes the pig bite the hen because they do not have a special place in Mae La camp.

Saw Gladdy

The Pig who bit my chicken.

Everybody needs water.