No easy feat: Recovering drug addicts exercising during a rehabilitation programme at the Metta Saneain rehab centre in Yangon. — AFP
More than a hundred shaven-headed men pour out of their Yangon hostel around 6am for a day of weightlifting, karate drills, dancing and Buddhist prayer – drug rehabilitation, Myanmar style.
The group of doctors, musicians and street food vendors set off for a jog around a verdant, orchid-dotted compound, watched over by supervisors carrying heavy wooden sticks.
