At 19, he left Britain to volunteer as an English teacher for migrants at Thai-Myanmar border, and he’s never looked back

in #news6 years ago

Steve Gomersall could not speak a lick of Thai or Burmese when he first moved to Mae Sot, a district in western Thailand that shares a border with Myanmar.
Fast forward 10 years, and the now 29-year-old teacher has still yet to master the languages of his students, but has blended into the community just fine, having set up an English school for poor migrants.
“I came to Mae Sot for a variety of reasons,” the Briton says.
His journey to the Southeast Asian country began when he...

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