Recently Completed: Schoolhouse Construction for 200 Impoverished and At-Risk Children
Education Program Development
Chiang Mai, Thailand - ASIA
The GENESIS Network recently completed the Kid Launch schoolhouse construction project for 200 impoverished children at risk of trafficking slave labor in Chiang Mai, Thailand. This is the second school we have completed in this region. The first was built for 65 children in the district of Mae Cheam. A third school is now planned for 100 children in the continuing Kid Launch effort. You can help. The future of a child without education in Thailand is impoverished and subject to prostitution, slave labor and human trafficking. Kid Launch is a Thailand-based program under the umbrella of Genesis providing community education and outreach in support of children that may not otherwise have access to schooling. |
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The recipients of our services have sought out our help and are selected based on a variety of criteria. Specialists conduct community evaluations to determine the potential significance of our support and if future development can be sustained by the community subsequent to an initial effort. Every attempt is made to ensure long-term sustainability through local empowerment and leadership development rather than oversight and management.
Education is our children’s doorway to the world. It is the hinge upon which their futures rest and their lives depend. Kid Launch is part of a collaborative effort to put children back in school and return hope where once it was lost. For those that do not attend school, there are few remaining choices. Many children, male and female alike, will be forced to continue living well below the poverty line, join the country’s lucrative sex trade as prostitutes, or enter into various forms of slave labor.
Our program is gauged as much toward developing and sustaining an effective education program as it is toward building and enriching the environment that surrounds it. We see learning as a lifestyle rather than a task to be completed. Our program breaches the confines of the classroom to build an active community atmosphere facilitating social collaboration, a mutual sense of responsibility among its members, and overall unit cohesion.