HTL School

ure their lives. After the 8-8-88 riot occurred in Burma, many people fled to Thailand for their safety. Many children were forced to follow their parents and still more have been born in refugee camps along the Thai-Burma border. At first, there were no migrant learning centres and the migrant workers could not afford to send their children to Thai Schools. Those children lost their basic human right of education access and often faced child trafficking, drug dealing and oppression by employers who used child labourers. Therefore, Hsa Thoo Lei was founded with 25 students and a teacher in 1999, and aimed to provide basic education.