Summary
Founded in the spring of 2005, Ban Nai Soi Community Learning Centre (BNSCLC) provides secondary education, practical vocational skills, and community development skills to secondary school-aged Burmese refugees, ethnic minorities and the rural poor living in the Mae Hong Son Province area of Thailand.
The purpose of this project is to provide for the basic needs of the students in the most need. Without a provision of food and medicine, many of the poorest students would not be able to attend the learning centre and would be at increased risk for falling victim to exploitative labour.
The learning centre provides an avenue of greater opportunities and better chances in life for these disadvantaged youths.
Background
The students at BNSCLC are part of a large population living outside of the refugee camps. Not being in the camps leaves the children without any access to secondary education as they don’t have the appropriate documentation that would give them access to government schools. This lack of educational opportunity leaves them with limited options.
BNSCLC provides quality education, meals, and dormitories for migrant and refugee children on the Thai-Burma border. This support comes to children and teenagers who would otherwise be required to find menial labour and find themselves at greater risk of exploitation.
BNSCLC has coordinated with the Mae Hong Son Provincial Informal Education Department to provide high school accredited education to these children and give them the opportunity to break away from poverty.
The public funding available to operate these informal schools is understandably low, almost non-existent. As such the centre has not had sufficient funds to buy enough food or medicine for the students. To cover the shortfall the staff that run the school have been using their own minimal salaries to fund this.
BNSCLC success, sustained efforts and innovative solutions were acknowledged and rewarded by UNESCO in 2018 when they won the Wenhui Award for Innovations in School, Family and Community Collobration for Quality Education.
Goals and Results
The goal of this project is to provide for the basic needs for the students at BNSCLC. Without this support, many would not be able to attend school and get an education.
Sponsors
What's Been Happening Recently
𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗦𝗖𝗛𝗢𝗟𝗔𝗥𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣 𝗦𝗧𝗨𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔𝗦 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗧𝗘𝗥 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗨𝗡𝗛𝗖𝗥
Nang Chit Oo (Preansika) who graduated from Ban Nai Soi Community Learning Center - Mae Hong Son,Thailand(BNSCLC) shared her experience as an interpreter for UNHCR and COERR in the refugee camp with current BNSCLC students, inspiring them. She also supports her community by teaching Thai to the children.
Preansika had to stop studying at Grade 6 to help her mother work and support the family for three years. She heard about BNSCLC and decided to return to school. She started studying at BNSCLC in May 2019 and finished in March 2021.
After that, she worked as an interpreter for COERR for five months, and later, UN staff learned about her work and invited her to work for them. She attended the UN interpreter training and has been working for them ever since.
She also studies in the Mae Hong Son Informal Education Programme after work and uses her income to support her family by providing fish and pigs and practising organic farming, which she learned from BNSCLC.
PCF has supported BNSCLC in various ways since early 2016. BNSCLC provides courses in community development, leadership, and teaching skills for migrant youth who want to give back to their communities.
We thank all our sponsors during the past seven years for supporting this project and helping make students' dreams come true, just like Preansika's.
#BNSCLC #scholarshipstudent
Thank you for sharing this wonderful story. Support for education can change people’s lives.
𝗔𝗧𝗝: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗲𝘀! ❤️💚
Last week we posted that the year’s support for one of our projects by Asia Transpacific Journeys - ATJ recently ended. But it didn’t!
We were wonderfully surprised to find that ATJ want to continue their support for another year. And even happier when they more than have doubled their support to fund 2 projects; Ban Nai Soi Community Learning Centre (BNSCLC) and 4 preschools in Cambodia.
BNSCLC provides courses in community development and leadership and teaching skills for migrant youth who want to give back to their communities.
PCF supports 6 preschool classes in five remote rural villages with a total of 130 children aged 3 to 5 years old. 4 of these classes will be supported by ATJ this year.
Thank you for your continued trust.
#ATJ #Sponsors #CSR
𝗣𝗛𝗜𝗟𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗬 𝗜𝗦𝗡'𝗧 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗚𝗜𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗦!!
We are lucky to have several flexible arrangements with businesses that donate based on profit or unit sales or turnover.
Businesses often just need your recommendation to consider PCF for their CSR programmes!! 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘃𝘂𝗹𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟯? For further information please contact sallo@philanthropyconnections.org
Here's are just some of the ways businesses support us:
❤️ Last Christmas, Stichting Wees (www.stichtingwees.nl, www.good-gift.nl) raised 3.000 Euros from all the parcels they sold and the proceeds went to projects supporting disadvantaged children.
💚 Loopkoets (www.loopkoets.nl) started donating 150 Euros a month after hitting their annual target for number of carriages sold. Owner Rik Plattel's donations are earmarked for children's education projects.
❤️ Asia Transpacific Journeys - ATJ/ Foundation (www.atj.com/foundation) supports the Ban Nai Soi Community Learning Centre for the entire 2022-2023 school year.
𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘀:
philanthropyconnections.org/sponsoring
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