Mae Cha Rao Farmhouse School

The first thing headmistress Mya Mya Aae insisted on was that we sit down and she feed us with delicious Burmese food that she and the other teachers had prepared for us. No complaints from our side :)

One of the particularly impressive things I found was how much ownership the school took in the entire operation. They had a whole host of teachers and volunteers, that took on several tasks. Shown here is the registration desk that the teachers and volunteers ran, writing the medical history of every student.

Next was the height and weight measuring station. This volunteer teacher is actually a former political prisoner (as a result of his work for democracy) and recently got freed and within a few months started volunteering full time for the school.

Heres the eye testing station, also run by the Burmese volunteers.

The refugee volunteers also organised medical record books to be printed for each of the kids.

Here the kids are queing up for eye testing

This is the second eye testing station. The letters are pointed out by Johny a burmese refugee. The gentleman guiding the kids is a refugee ethnic arakan leader that got exiled from the refugee camp for defending the rights of his minority group.