In a rocky village in remote Myanmar, 50 children run, chase and kick an Australian Rules football.
The oval ball is a novelty for the youngsters, given to them by former village resident Gei Lin.
For the past eight years, Mr Lin has lived in the small town of Bright in Victoria’s north-east, where he fell in love with the game.
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Determined to bring his passion to his former home, he took a handful of donated footballs, downloaded some games for instructional purposes and headed to his home village to share his discovery.
Now he’s unwittingly become an unofficial ambassador for the sporting code.
Mr Lin says the first step was to demonstrate the game by showing a YouTube video.
"I let them watch two times, three times, four times,” he told SBS News.
“So, when I asked them, 'Do you really understand it?'... and they said, 'We understand most of it already. Just play. We can’t watch any more. Let’s play.'"
Gei Lin was forced out of his village in 2004. He survived months in a Malaysian jungle before he was arrested, imprisoned and almost starved to death.
Granted refugee status, the father of four has lived in regional Victoria since 2010 and has established a successful gardening business.
But Mr Lin says his thoughts are rarely far from Chin State, and, besides the footballs, he has funded the construction of a school, reflecting on his own experience of childhood education.
"We had no books, no pencils, those things. So I use only slate... and just only rock. And that's what I used to use. So since I got here in Australia, I'm providing books, pencils, those things."
His next mission, he says, is to complete piping water to the village and to resurface the makeshift football ground so the young players can showcase all the skills of the game – including tackling.
"I taught them not to push or not to play very strongly the first day because the ground is very rough for them and all rocky."
Either way, Gei Lin says he will never leave behind the small village he called home.
"I keep praying. I know where I come from. I like to go back and help them as much as I can."
