PUBLIC MARKS with tags diaporama & sound

Raising Burmese School is important to Toe Toe's mother. So Rose keeps the 9-year-old’s hair cut and helps with homework. At the first sign of fever, Rose’s hand is the one reaching for Toe Toe's forehead. Yet, Rose is not Toe Toe’s mother. Rose is a teacher at one of the few schools for Burmese children in Thailand. Two years ago, she and her husband welcomed Toe Toe and her brother into their one-room home. The biological parents – old acquaintances from Myanmar – live 1.5 hours away on a rubber plantation with little time to meet the children’s simple needs such as supervision. There is also no school nearby. Through two couples’ sacrifice, two Burmese children now face a brighter future in a foreign land.