Too much respect for this teacher who works across the Pun Hlaing River from Yangon, in a desperately poor area that during the monsoon is constantly inundated with floodwater.
To get to the monastic education school, pupils and the teacher, Thuzar Mon, are pushed by raft or carried by their parents.
She has been offered more lucrative jobs in other schools in safe areas, but she has turned them down, she tells Radio Free Asia.
“I worry about these children,” she says. “If for some reason I can’t teach them anymore, they would have a hard time going to other schools. I don’t think they could go. They’d have to pay a lot of money for a trishaw to take them to school. They can’t afford it.”
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