School children in Hlaing Thayar are served their morning soy milk made from of a machine donated by Myanmar Chemical Engineers, a local company who produce the soy machine. (Photo courtesy of Rick Chase)

Sara McCaslin is an editor and visual journalist for The Seattle Globalist. She worked for several daily midwest newspapers including The Flint Journal, The Columbia Missourian and The Boone County Journal before moving to Seattle. Sara trains the next generation of journalists through the Globalist Apprenticeship Program and is a graduate of the Journalism School at the University of Missouri.