Aung San Suu Kyi

Aung San Suu Kyi

After fifteen years under house arrest, Burma’s first lady of democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi walks free. The grace and beauty of the moment are both moving and momentous on a world scale to witness.

Swimming From Burma

Girl

There’s been a new face hanging around the restaurant for a few days. She is a tiny young girl of about twelve, who looks like a puff of wind would sweep her away. She has a beautiful face and smiles huge crinkly-eyed smiles whenever I pass her. Being used to the ebb and flow of people [...]

Joe and Egger’s Little Boy….

Today is a day of wonderful people beginning their journeys. My cousin is flying from London to take over as head chef, and help me open our new cafe venture. In what couldn’t be a starker contrast, Joe and Egger’s oldest son sets off today to join us from Burma. Joe just got the call [...]

Joe and Egger get a photo from Burma

Joe and Egger work in the kitchen. They’ve got six children in Burma. They left them all behind, the youngest one only three, to escape to Thailand to try and make enough money to support the whole family. Their entire family put in their savings to pay the people traffickers to get them across the [...]

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