On the edge of Mae Sot, a town of around 120,000 on the Thai/Burma border in northern Thailand is Maepa rubbish dump. It's a stinking steaming mass of rotting food and plastic. But it's also home to a community of around 22 families, 300 Burmese who have fled across the border escaping from a bloody Military Regime in search of a better life. They collect and sell plastic for recycling for which they earn about 3 baths per kilogram, and live in shelters in the midst of the dump where living conditions are bleak with lack of basic needs such as clean water and medical facilities. The children situation is specifically, the don't have alternative but to work since they are just babies.