Shan Refugee Camp

I struggle to find words to express all that I saw and felt while walking through the Shan refugee camp this afternoon. An elderly couple hauled buckets of sand from the river and dumped it in a pile in the middle of the "road" running through the village. I was told that the Shan people can make up to 300 baht a day selling the sand for construction, which is twice what they make working construction. The people in this Shan village are refugees from Burma who are not able to return to their country and do not have papers to travel within or leave Thailand.