Happy to support this amazing organization and their mission to uplift the marginalized peoples of Northern Thailand.

To support families in Northern Thailand, especially the most opressed peoples including Indigenous and Ethnic groups, children, women, and migrants.

To support Karen Hilltribe members and leaders towards their own empowerment, in areas of healthcare, enviornmental protection, education, and womens' rights.

An organization supporting the Karen people living in Mae Hong Son, Thailand.

The Karen Hilltribes Trust (KHT) is a community-led organization that has been working with marginalized Karen communities in Northern Thailand for the past three decades.



The Karen are the largest ethnic minority group in Thailand, with an estimated population of 549,400. As mostly subsistence farmers, growing rice, vegetables and raising animals to support their families, life is difficult. KHT’s research has found that on average, families earn just $810 each year, whilst most communities do not have access to safe water and sanitation, healthcare, or education.



**Vision**



A secure future for the Karen communities of Northern Thailand.



**Our Mission**



To partner with Karen communities to improve their health, livelihoods, and access to education.



**What They Do**



By taking a holistic approach to the complex issues at hand, KHT aims to achieve sustainable change by empowering communities to improve their own lives. Since 1986, KHT has:

* transformed health and well-being for over 55,643 people through providing clean drinking water, improved sanitation facilities and hygiene education.
* allowed 18,901 farmers to secure agriculture as a sustainable livelihood through the construction of flood-resistant irrigation systems.
* increased access to education for 17,693 children and young adults through the provision of school meals, transport and accommodation, and higher education scholarships.


**Current Needs**



Since March 2020, KHT has continued to provide vital support to communities who have lost jobs or been unable to attend education because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The projects have also been tailored to include vital COVID-19, handwashing, and general hygiene education, to ensure communities understand how to protect themselves. However, KHT is now in urgent need of your support to continue implementing these vital projects, in particular, its:

* Access to Education Project - the project provides school buses in rural areas that lack public transport. The buses are often the only safe option for students to travel, and KHT are looking to expand this project as children return to school.
* Irrigation Project – the project strengthens agriculture as a sustainable livelihood for farmers through the construction of flood-resistant irrigation systems.
* Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Project – the project transforms community health through improving sanitation, hygiene, and access to safe water.



These projects ensure communities can improve food security, income generation, and health and well-being, all of which are of the upmost importance during the COVID-19 pandemic. By donating to KHT today, you will be a part of empowering Karen people across Northern Thailand to improve their own lives.

The Karen Hilltribes Trust

Quality of life for children in need in Northern Thailand

The Life Skills Development Foundation (TLSDF) is a registered Thai non-profit and non-governmental organization that aims to improve the quality of life for vulnerable children and their families in upper northern Thailand. TLSDF’s mission is to empower and build the capacity of the individuals and groups responsible for ensuring the basic rights of children (survival, protection, development, and participation) in accordance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.



TLSDF currently operates 5 key projects in 5 districts of 3 provinces in Upper northern Thailand; Chiang Mai, Lamphun and Maehongson.  Currently TLSDF’s program covers 18,847 families; around 58,142 family members in 7 sub-districts, among the population 41,668 of them are ethnic, indigenous and migrant people. Estimated 37,694 of them are children.



**COVID-19 Response**



At TLSDF, we are revising some of our planned activities from different projects to address the needs of the most deprived and marginalized, non-Thai citizens who live and learn in Thailand. The revised activities not only to help them to protect themselves from COVID-19, but also for some of them, we aim to help them to survive from jobs lost due lockdown and shelter in place situation. Some reponse efforts:

* Design child-friendly information campaign through posters, leaflets, sign post, and flyer with guided actions for COVID-19 prevention and control in 7-8 ethnic languages particularly in Shan language; the majority group of migrant in upper northern Thailand. The information, communication and education media will also provide a helpline number, contactable resource agencies. These will be distributed to at least 18,000 families including 36,000 children.
* Distribute hygiene supplies as the virus protective gears such as soap bars, alcohol-based hand rub or chlorine solution, face mask and/or face shield, disinfectants, wet tissue paper, and non-human touch fever measure instrument.



TLSDF and its community-driven child protection networks are ready to distribute these supplies and learning kits to all under budgeting households under our program impact areas in Upper Northern Thailand.

The Life Skills Development Foundation

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