By Jorn Dix | International Volunteer
Another three months have passed by and our students went on their well-deserved holidays on Friday 13th of March. Our school will be closed until May 11th and then resume as before.
During the time of school holidays HDS's teachers will have one month break as well and then begin to prepare for the new school year. Now we have a little time to reflect on what happened during the past year.
In the school year 2014/2015 HDS had 72 students. All of them belong to one of the various ethnic minorities living on both sides of the Thai-Myanmar border and are victims of statelessness. HDS offers these children a chance to receive at least a basic education up to grade 6 (the end of primary education in Thailand) and also provides them with vocational training in different fields, like sewing, handicrafts, basic maintenance of technical equipment, and agriculture.
HDS is a school under the supervision of the Non-Formal Education Department (NFED) and therefor our students must do their exams for the primary education diploma at the NFED. During the last year all eight of our 5th grade students managed to receive their diploma for the 6th grade and are now going to study on for a high school diploma. Three of them even managed to progress on to the formal education system and will be able to study at a Thai government school from the beginning of next term. This is a big success for these children and all HDS and DEPDC staff are happy and proud of this achievement.
The other five students will have the chance to stay at HDS for one more year and study here to improve their knowledge and skills. They will receive support and advice for their further studies.
DEPDC wishes all of them the best of luck in their further studies and hopes that they will go on to receive a 9th grade high school diploma.
All to DEPDC's staff, volunteers, and students would like to thank all our generous donors for their support. Without your support DEPDC's work for the wellbeing of our students would be impossible. Thank you!
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