By Pam Rogers | Capacity Advisor, Addiction Specialist
GlobalGiving Report September 2025
A general update on the situation on the Thai/Myanmar Border.
Lost in the news of the world, where genocide in Gaza and the war in Ukraine take the headlines, the Military Coup in Myanmar is about to enter its 5th year, causing a civil war and the displacement of thousands and thousands of civilians. Many have headed to the border with Thailand, where either they seek shelter in the jungles on the Myanmar side or silently slip into the refugee camps on the Thai side, that have been in operation for going on 40 years. The situation is dangerous and has been intractable.
DARE Network has been providing Addiction Worker training, non-medical – culturally appropriate substance abuse treatment and prevention education in the refugee camps, inside Karen State-Myanmar and more recently in our Migrant Worker DARE Centre on the border in Thailand, for 25 years. This year, in its first sweeping action, Donald Trump and the current government of America cut USAID and wiped out all food and healthcare in the refugee camps. DARE Network has suffered a loss of $100,000USD, because of this cruel and heartless move.
We are diversified in our funding, but this has been a blow. However, for now, we are forging onward with great effort to seek alternative funding. Wish us luck with this.
Meanwhile, as the healthcare and food has disappeared from the camps, the Thai Government is finally being forced to pay attention to a long-held request from NGOs and the UNHCR to open the camps so that some people can go out to work to feed their families. It seems this may go forward but it will take some time, as the Thai bureaucracy is embedded and slow.
At DARE Network, the need for our services continues as the trauma that people have suffered continue to lead them into addiction. Thanks to all of you for your support to help us, help those, who need and want help.
On Giving Tuesday, December 2025 we hope you all will continue that support.
Thanks, from all of us at DARE Network
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