WEAVE- ECD team and Nursery School’s Teacher Trainer Coordinator visited and monitored 11 nursery schools in Mae Ra Ma Luang Camp. There are 1,460 children accounted for in all the…

For Karen people who live in temporary shelters (refugee camps) on the Thai-Burma borders for the last 20 years, life can be very hard. The everyday challenges of poverty and life as a refugee are compounded by a number of other problems, including over-crowding, poor nutrition and sanitation, lack of economic opportunity, inability to work outside the refugee camps, and a highly competitive labour market. However, in the 3 Karen refugee camps in Tak and Mae Hong Son Provinces, change is taking place as a result of the support extended by Women’s Education for Advancement and Empowerment (WEAVE).

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WEAVE Holds  Team Building Activity!

Twenty-one (21) WEAVE staff attended the team building activity on Sept. 21-25, 2009 at several locations and establishments in Rayong and Bangkok. These  include Sea View Resort , Koh Samed, Grand Palace, Bangkok’s Ratchada City Hotel  and Dream World.

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Bits and Pieces

• A new staff, Nikos Dacanay, was hired since July to coordinate WEAVE’s Special Project on Documentation (Marketing Study and WEAVE Book). He will work  closely with the Income Generating Project (IGP) group for the first part of his assignment and will be visiting and getting in touch with concerned WEAVE field offices/projects and staff for his data gathering.
  
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