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It's considerate of you to mention the vacancy for an accountant. Not my field but your concern is respected.
It is a very difficult and delicate position regarding the refugees! Brighter and more involved people than me have been looking for solutions for years, it's a major problem with the poor souls. A great deal of the problems arising with The Karen and the Junta can be attributed to Britain pulling out of Burma at the end of WW11. From my personal point of view though, I have to give 100% support to people such as yourself for doing the brilliant work you do. I think you are on track, but understand the considerations you mention.
In any event it's a very sad state of affairs. Men, women and children being abused in the most despicable inhuman manners possible, murdered, driven from their homes. Homes burned etc etc. Limbs being blown off by land-mines, lack of medical attention and facilities, there are of course the special ones Dr Cynthia always springs to mind. The volunteers who carry medical aid through those inhospitable mountains. People shouldn't be living in these circumstances, it's 2007 for crying out loud.
I don't know if you have been into Myawaddi, it's a very interesting town, a lot of poverty , electricity supplied to the chosen few from Thailand!
There is a very lively market in town on the right hand side after you go through the Border Pass. A great deal going on there too. Last time I was there, February this year, two girls kicked off like a couple of wild cats, fists, feet, hair pulling, then a stool followed by one of those gigantic pans of boiling soup! Shit everybody got a bit, including me, lucky though it was my legs which got splashed and I had trousers on as against shorts! Some weren't so lucky.
I'm presently trying to get some work finalised in The UK myself before mid December when I'm going to be on my way. I'll be out there for about four months, not too sure when I'll be in Mae Sot as yet, but if you are about, I'll contact you and we can have a cup of tea, or even a beer together!
Let me know.
{Bet that cup of tea bit caused a bit of face pulling}
