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Burmese in Colorado

by Alejandro Hernández on April 14, 2025

Mae Sot, Thailand _ The Mae Tao clinic on the Thai-Myanmar border has become an essential lifeline for Burmese refugees, offering treatment for malaria. The clinic also has a prosthetics department for land mine victims.

(from left) 34 year-old Thaw Dah Win from Myanmar, Cire Wane (cq) from Mauritania, and Bol Abiar (cq) from Sudan, follow directions written in English, as to how to re-stock a hotel room with sheets and towels

34 year-old Thaw Dah Win asks for a break during a class at the Emily Griffith Opportunity School in Denver.

Burmese community protest in Denver on Sept. 29, taken by Jeff Smith

Burmese community protest in Denver on Sept. 29, taken by Jeff Smith

Scott Robbins (orange shirt), of Mercy Housing explains voting to a group of Burmese refugees at the voting center at Montclair Recreation Center in Denver, Colo., on Friday, Oct. 31, 2008.

Hline Pyu, 72, a Burmese refugee, talks about the one and only time he voted in the 1950's in Burma, as a group of refugees learn about the U.S. election system at the voting center at Montclair Recreation Center in Denver, Colo., on Friday,

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