Photostory: A day on the garbage dump
October 18, 2009 – 12:28 pm | No Comment

I visited the garbage dump many times over the course of several months in 2008-2009 while filming for my documentary.
Fred and I had the idea to create a movie to get some awareness to raise some money for supplies for the inhabitants of the dump.

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Go Play – building playgrounds (video)
July 3, 2010 – 11:17 pm | 2 Comments

Go Play – building playgrounds (video)

(The names of the school and location have been bleeped out to protect their privacy)
Go Play is an organization that builds playgrounds in developing countries. In Thailand they have built a lot of playgrounds for schools and orphanages. When you have some spare time you can volunteer to build playgrounds and make a lot of children happy.

For Robert, a volunteer, I’ve created this short movie so you can see what they’re exactly doing.

Why build playgrounds? Well, because there are a lot of migrant learning centers and orphanages who don’t have a decent place for the kids to play. The learning centers are in Thailand, but are not recognized as schools by the Thai government. Only in Mae Sot alone you’ll find 50+ centers. The centers have no income and are merely funded by organizations and other donors.

Another reason you should help is: you’ll meet interesting volunteers from all over the world and it is very rewarding to see the kids play after a week of hard work.

We encourage children to gain the skills they need to succeed in a changing world
by providing a space and resources to play. We design and build great playspaces
to improve the learning, health and wellbeing of children in the developing world,
and we support and train others to do the same.

That play is the tool children use to experiment with, and master how, the world
works. Classroom learning is important, but play is learning put into practice.
Play is fundamental to a child’s overall development and wellbeing. We believe
that all children have the right to play and that all children deserve safe and fun
places to do so.

Visis www.goplayproject.org

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Animated refugee experience
June 14, 2010 – 6:59 pm | No Comment
Animated refugee experience

A short trailer/teaser of the experiences of Eh Kaw Hto Wah animated by Sander Hegeman for Eyes to Burma, www.eyesto.org

In Karen State is a constant fighting between the government and insurgents for over 60 years. This causes thousands of refugees and internally displaced people every year.

Currently there are over 125.000 people in hiding for the Burmese militairy or otherwise driven from their homes by the conflict in Karen State.

Photostory: A day on the garbage dump
October 18, 2009 – 12:28 pm | No Comment
Photostory: A day on the garbage dump

I visited the garbage dump many times over the course of several months in 2008-2009 while filming for my documentary.
Fred and I had the idea to create a movie to get some awareness to raise some money for supplies for the inhabitants of the dump.

Illegal Immigrants on the garbage dump
October 18, 2009 – 12:06 pm | No Comment
Illegal Immigrants on the garbage dump

First impression of the people who are living on the garbage dump.
In Mae Sot there are living around 200-300 people on the garbage dump. They have fled form their home country Burma to build up a live here in Thailand.

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Arrested Illegal immigrants
October 18, 2009 – 11:34 am | No Comment
Arrested Illegal immigrants

Aliens: On the 23rd of January, 200 members from the Mae Sot police force, volunteer forces, municipality of Mae Sot, and Tak immigration department arrested illegal immigrants in the Mae Sot area. They arrested 116 people in total, made up of Burma, Bangladeshi, and Karen people.

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Popularity: 100%