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Education to Stateless Children from Burma Ralston Nasal, educator of stateless children from Burma. Making a difference in your world. Ralston Nasal said she never planned to open a school for the stateless children from Burma. But when she saw children late at night in the streets of Chiang Mai who had no access to education, she decided to teach them herself. Words spread about the free classes and as more students showed up and Nasal enlisted volunteers, hired a small bus and used her own money to turn her house into a school. “So, it’s really time to get them into regular schools and they just……. They wouldn’t take them even if I offered to sponsor them the fees…….. Most of Ralston Nasal’s students are children of migrate workers from Chi state of Burma and do not have Tai citizenship or language skills, making it difficult for them to enroll in Thai schools. Also many of her students do not have the time or money for regular schools, because they have to work to support their families.” “Some of them market noodle shops, maybe from like streets, er, from 5 p.m. to 2 o’clock in the morning .So they can’t go to school at 7 o’clock in the morning.” Nasal says in the last few years her school----- Thai Freedom House--- has taught about 200 children English, Tai and Art. The school also teaches the Shan language because most of children didn’t receive good education in Burma. Nasal also arranges for craft makers to teach the children how to make things they can sell to help support their families. “They don’t have country, you know. They don’t have their family structure here to support them. But if you can’t give them education, language and ways to express themselves, which is why we focus on the arts. That’s the case…… That’s another kind of freedom that otherwise they wouldn’t have.” 14 –year—old Mango said when she moved into Thailand 3 years ago, her parents tried to enroll her in a Thai school. But because she didn’t have a birth certificate, she was reject