Thai-Myanmar border in Per Nwe Pu village, around 100 km north of Mae Sot


Karen refugees walk along a road on the Thai-Myanmar border in Per Nwe Pu village, around 100 km north of Mae Sot on June 17, 2009. Around 1100 Karen refugees arrived on June 2, 2009 in the village and are staying in temporary shelters. There are an estimated 42 million uprooted people around the world waiting to return home. World refugee day is to be held on June 20.



A Karen family rest in a temporary shelter on the Thai-Myanmar border in Per Nwe Pu village, around 100 km north of Mae Sot on June 17, 2009. Around 1100 Karen refugees arrived on June 2, 2009 in the village and are staying in temporary shelters. There are an estimated 42 million uprooted people around the world waiting to return home. World refugee day is to be held on June 20.

A Karen refuggee girl sings a song as she holds a candle under a temporary shelter on the Thai-Myanmar border at the Safe Haven orphanage 136 km north of Mae Sot on June 18, 2009.

A Karen refugee with two legs missing lights up her pipe next to a sleeping baby under a temporary shelter on the Thai-Myanmar border at the Safe Haven orphanage 136 km north of Mae Sot on June 18, 2009.

Orphan Karen refugees take cover under a temporary shelter, used as a school and dormatory on the Thai-Myanmar border at the Safe Haven orphanage 136 km north of Mae Sot on June 18, 2009. Around 40 children from an orphanage in Myanmar and around 60 people arrived to the Safe Heaven orphanage 2 weeks ago after they fled Myanmar north eastern Karen state. June 20 is world refugee day, around 42 million uproted people around the world are still waiting to go home.


A Karen family stands under a temporary shelter on the Thai-Myanmar border in Per Nwe Pu village, around 100 km north of Mae Sot on June 17, 2009. Around 1100 Karen refugees arrived on June 2, 2009 in the village and are staying in temporary shelters. There are an estimated 42 million uprooted people around the world waiting to return home. World refugee day is to be held on June 20.