Saturday, July 11, 2009

7/11/09 - One week in Mae Sot

Today on my bicycle there was a boy walking a water buffalo to my left and a pick up truck with cases of beer piled 30 feet in the air.

I couldn't get any photos, because I was focusing on not crashing into them, but the road looked a little bit like this... 



And... $5 to the first person who can name the lady standing with me in the picture below.

She's pretty much the Michael Jordan of offering a huge variety of free, high quality, health care for all Burmese people living at or around the Thai/Burma border.  



If no one gets it, I'll post the answer in my next entry.

3 comments:

  1. UnknownJuly 13, 2009 at 7:20 AM

    is it Dr. Cynthia Maung of the Mae Tao Clinic?

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  2. bethJuly 13, 2009 at 9:58 AM

    Woo hoo!!!!! It is!

    By meeting Dr. Cynthia, I have now doubled the number of Time Magazine Asia's Heros I have met! (The first one being Lek from Elephant Nature Park, of course.)

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  3. UnknownJuly 13, 2009 at 7:34 PM

    I had no clue who that woman was. Well done, Erica! I do know with a complete degree of certainty, that I would recognize Lek.I looked Dr. Maung up online after your reading blog. ..Really amazing woman.
    I love your blogs because they mix cool pix, and stories, with educational information.
    Lots of love,
    Barbara

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