Molo

This is Molo. He is a six year old from the Nana Orphanage. Molo died the day before we arrived.

Molo was an orphan to Burmese parents who died of AIDS. He had lived at Nana for the past year. From what I understand, several weeks ago, someone showed up at Nana and, saying he was a relative, took Molo and crossed over to Burma. Apparently, Molo ran away and made his way to Mae Sai. The orphanage supplements it's finances with a restaurant in town run by orphanage volunteers. They believe he was waiting for the restaurant to open so he could go to them and be taken 'home.' In the meantime, doing what he knew best, he was begging on the streets when he was struck and killed by a car.

After we left, Abraham, the mission director, was leaving to pick up his body at the hospital and bring him back to the orphanage for burial.