Tematy

Children playing in various games or on play equipment, areound the world.

Buddhists and situated near the Thai/Burma border and in Shan state. Many can speak and read Shan language as well as their own. 'DaraAng' in their own language. The women wear distinctive red sarongs usually with small stripes and laquered waist rings, also thick belts covered with aluminium.

A school for the children of Shan migrant workers in the orange plantations of Fang valley. Funded by Blood Foundation it is only a couple of kilometers from the Thai border with Burma.

Held in Burma and by Shan communities in Thailand it involves the ordination of young boys as novice monks in the Theravada Buddhist tradition. They are dressed as princes to copy Rahula, the Buddha's son and first novice. The family will stay at the temple for three days or more and on the final day he will ordain into the orange robes and stay in the temple for as little as a week to as long as he wants.