Burma’s Neighbors Absorbing Cyclone Survivors

One year after Burma's monks rose up against the military, more and more Burmese are fleeing to neighboring countries in search of work. Some make the journey to gain political safety but most are doing it out of economic necessity.

Cyclone Nargis hit Burma at a time when inflation and unemployment were already at their highest levels in years. To make matters worse, salt water now covers many of the rice paddies making this year's planting season impossible. 

Many Survivors have been forced to join the more than one million migrants already in neighboring Thailand.

Rebecca Henschke speaks with some of the new arrivals in the Thai border town of Mae Sot known as 'Little Burma'.

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