Provide Education for 470 Burmese Migrant Children

Dear Supporters,

Since our Learning Centres reopened in May 2010 both students and teachers alike have been busy bees, keeping themselves thoroughly occupied and entertained with a number of extra curricular activities. Here are a couple....

Environmental Cleanup On May 27th, in accordance with Grassroot’s (The local name for FED) growing environment and conservation interest and long term goals, staff, parents, students and community members cleaned and collected waste around one of our learning centers and in the general community area. Another set of students also participated in a beach clean up in the Ban Nam Khem area on June 9th.

Curriculum workshop: Through continuous assessment, education staff do their best to improve their delivery of education so that our children benefit from the best. Over 3 days from May 28th-30th, a Teachers' capacity building and curriculum workshop was conducted. 16 teachers participated to the workshop. The issues discussed in the the workshop included: child-centered teaching methods, administration of our learning centers, the role of headmasters, the content of 2009 - 2010 curricula, and the evaluation of student competencies and learning.

Thank you so much for your continued support.

Dear Supporters,

You will be happy to know that the kids are delighted to be reunited with their friends and back at their migrant Learning Centre after their 2 month summer holiday.

Unlike most kids we know, these chlidren dread the holidays because they either have to work or there is nothing for them to do where they live, isolated from their friends in large rubber plantations or construction sites, they are bored and unstimulated. What is more, they are at great risk to all sorts of dangers in their environment such as dangerous work equipment and snakes. Often the children must be left unsupervised while their parents work hard to put food in their mouths.

Just days before the learnig centres reopened a student went missing whilst her parents were working and was found 3 days later killed and possibly raped. The FED legal aid team is working together with the Thai police on the case.

The Learning Centres that you support allow the chlidren not only to learn, but also to play and be supervised in a safe and secure area, free from these kind of threats. All the staff have undergone child protection, child rights and child-centered education training as well as health and first aid training. The chlidren are in very safe hands offering great peace of mind to parents and allowing the children to thrive and be happy.

The kids are so enthusiastic to be back at school and learning again it really makes you smile.

On behalf of the children and their parents A big BIG Thank you to all of you for helping to make this happen.