Every year when school semester starts again, COERR deem it necessary to provide sponsorship to the vulnerable children who are at-risk of protection; children who are very poor and need education support; and undocumented children in temporary shelters along Thailand’s western border including and poor children living in the communities along Thailand’s eastern border.

   There were various kinds of sponsorship offered to these vulnerable children such as support for tuition fees, uniform , school supplies, transportation costs to school and other educational expenses, etc.

   So far, there were approximately 600 children in shelters along Thailand’s western border provinces, 126 children along the eastern border provinces (116 in Sakaew and 10 in Surin); and 45 urban refugee children.

Mae Sarieng needy children were seen wearing donated School Uniform

COERR Mae Sot distributed school uniform to Nupo schoolchildren
numbering 60 of 21 boys and 39 girls during July 23-26, 2019

   Survey was made in schools in 9 shelters where poor schoolchildren were identified to receive support for school uniform, tuition fees and education materials as well as clothing for boarding house schoolchildren.

COERR Mae Sot Distributed Sleeping Gears and Kitchen Utensils for Boarding Houses in Umpiem

   For COERR Ratchaburi, the number of children who received school uniform in Ban Don Yang Shelter, Kanchanaburi Province was 30 and in Ban Tham Hin Shelter of Ratchaburi Province was 30. Tuition fee was distributed to 31 in Ban Don Yang Shelter and 30 in Tham Hin Shelter, totalling 61.

COERR Kanchanaburi Distributed School Uniform, Sleeping Gears and Kitchen Utensils
for Under-Resourced Boarding House Schoolchildren

   In May 2019, COERR Aranyaprathet Visited Scholars in the Sponsorship Program Since the eastern border provinces like Sakaew and Surin had dry climate, the harvest was poor, thus border villagers were facing poverty and hardship. Men and women who had little or no land earned low income. Their children then dicided to work in big cities in their hope for better living. Some had succeeded but many were struggling and their children’s need for educational support prevails. COERR surveyed and support the scholarship program in Sakaew since 2005 and then expanded to Surin province, for children from primary level to university level.

A scholar with her chicken-egg production for
income generation in Sakaew Province

A poor but happy scholar living with his big family
of an elderly, a disabled brother, etc. in Surin Province.