Kid Launch: Schoolhouse Construction for 100 Children in Thailand
Education Program Development
Chiang Mai, Thailand - SOUTHEAST ASIA
The focus of the project is the village of Baan Phai Du, Chiang Mai province, Northern Thailand. The project is targeting a community that is heavily impoverished and currently lacking even the most rudimentary education facilities, resources and teachers. The project is small in that it deals with a single village only, but one very much in need of educational support. The Kid Launch program was commenced in cooperation with Genesis during the summer of 2008 in response to the widespread educational hurdle faced by thousands of children every year in one of the world’s poorest regions. It is an effort to bring support where other programs have not yet reached or, in many cases, have thus far failed. |
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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.
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 providing community education and outreach in support of children that may not otherwise have access to schooling. 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.
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