No Longer ‘Blocking Out’ Life

No Longer ‘Blocking Out’ Life

by | Mar 5, 2024 | Students

Since failing to make it to university after high school and moving to Bangkok for work in 1995, Kanokon Matchimo (Riang) has experienced divorce twice, become a single mother, and shuffled through a range of jobs, most of which she did not like. Now a janitor at an...
Life’s Getting Better

Life’s Getting Better

by | Mar 1, 2024 | Students

She hopes to be a teacher one day, but when Aye Say (Mai) was growing up in Myanmar her family had a different life path for her. Attaining educational qualifications was not important they felt. They wanted her to be a farmer. Mai’s time in school would often get...
All Under One Roof

All Under One Roof

by | Jan 3, 2024 | Blog

We capped the year 2023 with one of our most ambitious projects to date. For the first time, key stakeholders involved in the reporting of gender-based violence (GBV) in schools met under one roof in Ubon Ratchathani province. We’d hoped that by bringing together the...
From Ubon to Washington DC

From Ubon to Washington DC

by | Sep 11, 2023 | Bangkok, Staff

July was a whirlwind for me. In the course of several weeks, my team and I made our way through over 10 schools and reached out to more than 2,000 high school girls in northeast Thailand including Ubon province. We trained, distributed self-learning kits and collected...