Wee Kai is now a young woman. In this video, the last I took of her with her father, she is with him in his shack on the garbage, 2018. Her father passed in 2021.
I often think back to this young girls life, and wonder what will become of her in the future. Here father has died, her brother and mother can only do so much. Poverty most often begets only more poverty. Will she end up back in the dump, a mother at 14, like so many others before her. Last I heard from here mom, she was in Mae Sot working.
In the video, I speak the little Burmese I know, to ask her father, his daughters name.
