We spoke with the residents of Hlaing Tharyar Township’s Ward 3, where there is a lack of sanitation and toilet facilities in the overcrowded area. Since the community members there are considered squatters and have no legal right to live in the zone, the government is not in a hurry to provide public toilets and sewage systems. What effect does this have o residents’ lives?
News from Myanmar in recent years have been downbeat, with many human rights abuses. But amid the suffering, there are stories of people working to improve the lives of others. In this video we meet a former rebel who has established a school for migrant children near the Thai-Myanmar border.
BY Frontier
