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MAE Foundation Music Alters Everything There are 150,000 refugees, including many thousands of young children, in these remote hills.

If you could see for yourself the waste of human potential in the nine huge refugee camps up in the rugged mountain area along the Thai-Burmese border, it couldn’t fail to move you. The camps have been growing steadily for 26 years since Burma’s vicious military regime began attacking and abusing the Karen and other peoples of southeastern Burma, forcing them to flee for their lives. The camps are

, almost literally, in the middle of nowhere. The most accessible, Mae La, is 60km from the nearest town. They are run, day to day, by the refugees themselves, with vital and tireless support from the TBBC, the Thailand Burma Border Consortium, and 17 other aid organisations. But the refugees cannot help themselves by leaving the camps in search of work. They are not allowed to move on from the camps or look for local jobs, and there is no going back to the burnt villages and landmine-strewn fields of their homeland. They are effectively trapped between two countries – outside Burma, yet not really inside Thailand.

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