For Education and Development
Many migrant worker families are without work and income since weeks. As most of them have no proper work contracts or social insurance they are not included in the Thai government’s relief programs. The Shan Education and Culture Association collects donations at Wat Ku Tao, a Shan Buddhist temple in Chiang Mai, and distributes food […]
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The Covid-19 virus is gradually spreading in Burma. There is hardly any reliable information available, the official figures seem unrealistic and beautified.
There is a great danger that the Covid-19 epidemic will spread uncontrolled – and initially undetected – to the rural areas of the ethnic states. These areas are also areas of conflict in which struggles between the Burmese army and the ethnic armies flare up again and again, and in which increasing air raids and artillery attacks on the civilian population have been taking place recently. This particularly affects the areas of Arakan State, Chin State, Kachin State and Shan State. >>>
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Shan community groups launched today a new video, The Four Cuts, documenting atrocities committed by the Burma Army during past “clearance operations” in Shan State. On December 11, 2019, State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi defended Burma’s military against charges of genocide at the International Court of Justice, saying they were just carrying out “clearance […]
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Loi Lam is a small IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) community in a remote area of Shan State not far from the Thai border. The children of Loi Lam of course know about the Children’s Day celebrated all over Thailand on the second Saturday of January and they were sad that this year their small school […]
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Nang Htun comes from the Loi Tai Leng refugee camp on the border with the northern Thai province of Mae Hong Son. Her family came from inside Shan State (Burma) as refugees. She has a little brother. Due to an insufficiently treated eye infection, she is almost completely blind. The girl had not been able […]
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Against all difficulties caused by the unstable situation on the Thai border with Shan State (Burma), our Library project for the 800 students of Loi Tai Leng is making good progress. The structure of the building – basement, walls, windows and roof construction – is finished. In the next phase, the interior walls and the […]
Read More »Thailife Foundation helped setting up a library for the over 800 students of the Loi Tai Leng School. Thailife Foundation has started its biggest project so far, the building of a new library and learning centre for the Loi Tai Leng School and the general public of Loi Tai Leng, Shan State. The project is […]
Read More »Blood Foundation opened the Daylight School just a few months ago. It was set up to provide full time non-formal education for children of Shan migrants living and working on the farms located in the mountains along the Burma border in Fang District. These people have come to Thailand seeking refuge from persecution and oppression […]
Read More »Thailife Foundation bought warm winter cloths and blankets for the students of Schools of Hope in Ban Nong Ook. Thousands of refugees from the ethnic group of the Shan live in the border region between Thailand and Burma. They flee from the civil war in Burma and the human rights violations that come along with […]
Read More »As winter from November to February is definitely cold in the mountain areas of the northern provinces of Thailand and Shan State, blankets and warm clothes are a necessity for children of Loi Lam. Loi Lam is a small internally displaced people’s village inside Shan State, opposite to Thailand’s Chiang Mai province. Shan villagers fled […]
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