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A group of women and children are collecting plastic cans, beer cans, and other useful items among the trash floating in the current of Nga-moe-yeik Creek in Yangon, rowing a throwaway expanded polystyrene sheet as a raft.

“When a female artist becomes successful, she becomes defined as an object, whether it’s physical or not. There are some people who don’t see her as a good person and want to justify the rest of the content, such as something that is beautiful, and then because she is young and a girl, they don’t pay attention to her creative efforts.”

“The only thing that I worry about is, there is no field for my football practice. Luckily, as the refugee camp is on the school field, it has become my soccer field.”

“We are brave women.” “Rose Red” means bravery and is also called the “rose-colored women’s movement.” “So, we called it the Rose-colored Women’s Union because it is organized by such a group of red-colored women,”

“If some mothers are not able to send parcels as a consequence of business or social affairs, mothers who are able to send parcels tend to share their stuff with others—it is a sort of mother’s loving-kindness.”

“I don’t want to be caught in the hands of the army. We could not guess their attitude if we fell into their hands. We may be killed for telling others that we are detained. So we could not fall into the hands of the army and run away”.

“With the increasing difficulties of people’s daily meals, some families can be seen with no meal for breakfast as well as for dinner. Those kinds of people are abundant in the ward; thus, we are helping them as much as we can.”

“As the children regularly pick up garbage, Nyang Shwe town is litter-free, and thanks to it, some quarters and roads are clean and no litter, and residents of the town have started throwing away their garbage systematically”.

“When she saw me, she looked at me with amazing eyes. I smiled at her back and went straight into her shop. At that moment, my friend hugged me and we both cried,”

” I know I can die any time in the battle. But if we die, let it happen and we have joined the People Defense Force with this attitude. Till we can uproot the military dictatorship, we will fight back the dictator fearlessly.”