More and more Burmese children are leaving their families and illegally crossing the border into Thailand in the hope of gaining an education.

The repressive Burmese military regime spends one of the lowest amounts of money on health care and education in the world.

Even basic education is very expensive.

So children as young as five are making the journey into Thailand in the hope of getting a free education at schools run by exiled Burmese.

Rebecca Henschke visits one such school in the border town of Mae Sot, where nearly 3,000 students are living and studying.

One year after Burma’s monks rose up against the military, Burmese youth have launched their first current affairs television program.

The program ‘Youth Speak’ is produced by the exiled station, the Democratic Voice of Burma or DVB, and broadcast via satellite from Thailand into the country.

During the September uprising it was young savvy bloggers who provided the world with images, video footage, and reports on what was happening inside restrictive Burma.

The new television program ‘Youth Voice’ aims to give this generation of guerilla reporters a voice. 

Rebecca Henschke went to see the producers at work in their studio in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand.

One year after Burma’s monks rose up against the military, more and more of the people are fleeing to neighboring countries in search of work.

Some make the journey to gain political safety but most are doing it out of economic necessity.

Cyclone Nargis hit Burma at a time when inflation and unemployment were already at their highest levels in years. To make matters worse salt water covers many of the rice paddies making this year’s planting season impossible.

Survivors are forced to join the more than one million migrants already in Thailand.

Rebecca Henschke speaks with some of the new arrivals in the Thai border town of Mae Sot known as ‘Little Burma’.