Aims of the project

Providing daycare for invisible children; to enhance childhood development by providing care, education and activities to ultimately give them a chance for a better future.

The general situation, reasons and need for the project

Most migrant children living in Thailand remain isolated from Thai society and are therefore excluded from utilizing the most basic facilities and services. These children are invisible within the Thai society and live and grow up within the gates of constructions sites or rubber plantations; which are primarily located up in the hills and far from ‘civilization’. Unless these children are provided with adequate care, nurturing, cognitive stimulation and education they will not be able to enter the Thai School System later on; thus perpetuating the segregation pattern.

ChildTRAC believes that this is unacceptable and hopes to provide these children with the necessary skills, tools and ‘education’ needed to enable them to later be admitted into a Thai school system; by doing so we hope to present the migrant children of Phang Nga with better opportunities.

The geographic location of the project

Phang Nga Province, Southern Thailand

The number of children who will benefit from the project

100-150 children