It's 9am, before classes start, and children's shouts and squeals of laughter fill the air around three cottages in a school compound, a hilly area not far from the centre of Mae Sot, a northwestern city on the border with Myanmar.
The school is like many others, but also different. It is among the more than 65 schools in Tak province that many children of exiles and others who fled Myanmar after the 2021 coup go to.
