Without a mother life is like “fish out of water”

On April 29, 2012, Ko Win working at a rose garden in Khwekanukalal, Phopphra came to PVA office along with his three daughters, 11 years old, three years old and another 6 months old. According to him, his wife Ma Than Than Sint had passed away for heart failure and tuberculosis disease on November 27 after they had migrated to Thailand and worked for a rose garden for almost three years. The rest of the family went back to Burma for a while after the mother’s death. The realization of the difficulty to survive in Burma had pushed the family back to Thailand again. In Mae Sot, Ko Win went to Maetaw clinic to ask for the baby milk powders for his 6 months old baby. By the recommendation of a health worker from the clinic named Ko Yan Naing, Ko Win finally seek for temporary shelter at PVA. PVA provided the family for temporary shelter and arranged to take care of the children when Ko Win went out to work ever since then.

From May 7, 2012