Yangon: Teenager Dhama Theingi dreams of becoming an engineer and playing football, but for now she must rise for dawn prayers before pounding Yangon’s streets to collect alms as one of Myanmar’s growing number of child nuns seeking refuge from conflict.
With shorn heads and swathed in pink robes, the girls of the Mingalar Thaikti nunnery sit cross-legged on wooden floorboards as they pray, bleary-eyed and stifling yawns.
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