“Whatever has happened, I cannot change. But now I am taking ART for free and other things are improving, so I feel lucky to be here along with other children whose lives are similar to mine. Here we stay like a family together. The seniors look after the younger ones. Sometimes the young ones cry, Papu (Rama) give them toys or eatables.”
“I am Indian when I live here and when I go to Myanmar I become a Myanmarese.”
“There are things that have happened in my life, there are things in my head that I only want to tell my mother”
“As a kid when I tested HIV positive, I used to think I would die. That is what we used to hear at school. The stigma was very high and people had little knowledge that those who died of HIV AIDS people would simply say it was malaria.”
“I admire Aung San Suu Kyi, former Prime Minister of Myanmar.”