Elaine

Elaine is 71, a Canadian. She looks, acts, as though she could live in a bungalow with dachshunds. She has a grey bubble-cut, speaks no other languages, can't take spicy food, and walks very slowly over rough terrain. However provincial her personality, she has come to the Thai-Burma border and worked on either side of it with her husband every year for 18 years. If she acts old now remember that she got old waiting for Burma to change. 


What Elaine said: She is tired of watching the struggle in this struggle. Watching the unchange. “It just makes you weep when you see the inhumanity...I think a lot of people in North America feel helpless, but if you join an organization or write letters it does make a difference, even if it just makes you feel like you've made a difference. But some people I think just think about their next golf game. The ones who have any real power to do anything.”