This project will build an IT Education Center in rural southern Thailand. The center will provide 500 marginalized Burmese migrant children at risk of child labor exploitation, an opportunity to learn how to use computers, thus empowering them with the necessary IT skills to secure quality job opportunities in the future.
Over 2 million Burmese migrants left Burma escaping decades of conflicts, military oppression, and economic instability in search of a better life in Thailand. Migrants work low-paying jobs, face rights violations and trafficking exploitation. Children suffer the most, as many fall victim to child labor. This project will contribute to ending the poverty cycle of Burmese migrants by improving the IT education program available for 500 at risk Burmese migrant youth and children.
A new IT Education Center will provide migrant children and youth the state-of-the-art facilities and equipment necessary to become proficient users of computers, achieve internationally recognized IT certificates, and access limitless new learning resources. In turn, youth will be better prepared to access higher education and job opportunities in the future.
IT training will become a key piece of FED's hospitality and business skills vocational learning program designed to equip migrant youth with professional skills and internship opportunities at the hotels and restaurants of Thailand's beautiful Andaman coast. Skilled Burmese youth will be able to achieve better employment opportunities with higher income, resulting in today's migrant youth becoming the generation empowered to end the poverty cycle of migrant families.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
