A good education offers the chance for a better future. This is why Help without Frontiers supports schools on both sides of the border for more than 6.300 students. Help without Frontiers also supports dormitories for children who live far away or whose parents have to travel to find work.
People in hiding on the Burmese side don't have sufficient medical care. We are helping to improve the situation by supporting clinics and other health related projects.
The project's operator set the main focus on the community's health education. Furthermore, most refugees living in and around Mae Sot can't afford medical care in Thai clinics. Help without Froniters offers help such as paying for their medical treatment, transportation etc.
Help without Frontiers' Income Generation project aims to help people in exile, especially women, to earn an income under fair and clean working conditions. Vocational qualifications and know how are also improved to prepare workers for further jobs.
The generated income stays in the community and doesn't go towards profit oriented companies. The surplus is invested in the programme's expansion.
One of the biggest problems is providing refugees with food and clean drinking water. Malnourishment is widespread, as well as diarrhoea and other diseases spread by dirty drinking water and bad hygiene.
The economic crisis forced more people into poverty, leaving many parents unable to properly feed their children. Many children were coming to school malnourished, sickly and weak. Other children had to help their parents to earn a living and were therefore taken out of school to work, beg or collect garbage.
There are around 160.000 refugees in official refugee camps in Thailand, where they are being taken care of by big aid organisations. Up to one million refugees are living outside those camps, most of the time illigally in Thailand.
Our social centre in Mae Sot not only taking care of our projects, but also draws budgets, buys centrally, does the accounting of all projects and takes car of a good relationship with all partners.
The Team is helping in emergencies, takes care of new arrival refugees, taking care of sick teachers and students, organises trainings and works together with other organisations.
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