text: 06 MARCH 2014 - MAE SOT, TAK, THAILAND: A teacher works with students at the Sky Blue School. There are approximately 140 students in the Sky Blue School, north of Mae Sot. The school is next to the main landfill for Mae Sot and serves the children of the people who work in the landfill. The school relies on grants and donations from Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Reforms in Myanmar have alllowed NGOs to operate in Myanmar, as a result many NGOs are shifting resources to operations in Myanmar, leaving Burmese migrants and refugees in Thailand vulnerable. The Sky Blue School was not able to pay its teachers for three months during the current school year because money promised by a NGO wasn't delivered when the NGO started to support schools in Burma. The school got an emergency grant from the Burma Migrant Teachers' Association and has since been able to pay the teachers. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ