Allison Joyce

Allison Joyce is one of the top influencer in Thailand with 29874 audience and 0.77% engagement rate on Instagram. Check out the full profile and start to collaborate.

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The wait is finally over and I can breathe a little easier. 48 hours of travel, just a little over a day after landing, and I finally have my first dose!

Now please Biden, waive this vaccine patent so that my friends overseas can be safe too!

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A girl holds a baby outside a plastic factory situated along a canal that leads to the Buriganga river in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bangladesh has been reportedly ranked 10th out of the top 20 plastic polluter in the world with the Buriganga river known as one of the most polluted rivers in the country due to rampant dumping of industrial and human waste. Like many developing countries, Bangladesh lacks the infrastructure to effectively manage their waste which causes problems in keeping the waters safe for human and aquatic lives while dozens of tanneries on the banks of the river contribute industrial waste into the ground water. As June 5 was marked by the United Nations as World Environment Day, Buriganga symbolizes the general state of many rivers in Bangladesh, with the growing levels of pollutants and plastic waste consuming up all oxygen in the river and affecting our seafood while fishes consume bits of plastic which mimics their natural food sources and eventually lands on our dinner table.

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A fruit vendor waits for customers in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The COVID-19 crisis has all but killed informal jobs that usually keep millions employed in the developing world. Photographed for the @wsj

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A woman poses for photos with trained pigeons outside a tourist attraction in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

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Rickshaw drivers wait for customers in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The COVID-19 crisis has all but killed informal jobs that usually keep millions employed in the developing world. Photographed for the @wsj

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Women are seen during a festival in Isaan, Thailand.

A girl hula hoops in Isaan, Thailand.

Dogs roam at sunset outside A's grandmother's house in a rural village in the Isaan district. A says life in the countryside is not as much fun as in Phuket, the tourist island known for its nightlife where she lived and worked for most of the last eight years, but that living in her small village close to her family is its own kind of happiness.

For people in rural, landlocked provinces, Thailand's tourist hubs offered good-paying jobs for those otherwise facing a life of tending rice paddies and digging up cassava roots — the lives they grew up with and their parents still toiled in.

There are an estimated 200,000 to more than 1 million sex workers in Thailand, and the Thai sex trade worths $6.4 billion a year. But after Thailand closed its borders and canceled commercial flights because of the global pandemic, the country's tourism industry collapsed, along with the lives of the sex workers.

For NPR, I followed sex workers from the desolate red-light districts of Bangkok and Pattaya, to the sugar cane fields of Isaan with writer Aurora Almendral and journalists Suchada Phoisaat and Hathairat Phaholtap. Please read the story at the link in my bio.

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