News

Below is a list of the latest WEAVE news. Please click on the titles to read more of a particular article.

Join the WEAVE Team

9 February, 2010 (16:10) | News | By: WEAVE

Livelihood Project Assistant, Women’s Capacity Development Project

Location: Mae Sot, Thailand
Application Deadline: No later than 22 February, 2010.
Job Starting Date: 15 March, 2010.
General functions and responsibilities:

Provide Support to the Women’s Capacity Development Training Officer in all aspects of training preparation and implementation.
Provide translation support for both written and oral communication.
Assists WEAVE partner organizations in concretizing [...]

Join the WEAVE Team

9 February, 2010 (14:40) | News | By: WEAVE

Women Education Project Officer

Location: Mae Hong Son, Thailand
Application Deadline: No later than 22 February,2010 .
Job Starting Date: 15 March, 2010.
General functions and responsibilities:

Work in cooperation with the project teams to effectively plan, coordinate and implement WEAVE’s Women’s Education Project  with Karenni National Women’s Organization and Karen Women’s Education;
Lead in the coordination of field activities [...]

Join the WEAVE Team

9 February, 2010 (11:41) | News | By: WEAVE

Early Childhood Development (ECD) Project Officer/Field Officer

Location: Mae Hong Son, Thailand
Application Deadline: No later than 22 February,2010 .
Job Starting Date: 15 March, 2010.
General functions and responsibilities:

Works in cooperation with the project teams to effectively plan, coordinate and implement WEAVE’s Early Childhood Development Project.
Takes the lead in coordinating with other WEAVE’s Projects and Partner Organizations [...]

November E-Newsletter – Now Online

15 January, 2010 (10:21) | News, Publications | By: WEAVE

The November edition of the WEAVE E-Newsletter is now available online. Read it here.

October E-Newsletter – Now Online

12 January, 2010 (10:24) | News, Publications | By: WEAVE

The October edition of the WEAVE E-Newsletter is now available online. Read it here.

September E-Newsletter – Now Online

23 December, 2009 (10:34) | News, Publications | By: WEAVE

The September edition of the WEAVE E-Newsletter is now available online. Read it here.

August E-Newsletter – Now Online

6 October, 2009 (14:47) | News, Publications | By: WEAVE

The August edition of the WEAVE E-Newsletter is now available online. Read it here.

WEAVE Seeks Venture-Partners for its New Livelihood Program

28 September, 2009 (15:18) | News | By: Mitos Urgel

Chiang Mai September 2009  WEAVE, in collaboration with its local partners composed mainly of displaced and refugee women on the Thai-Burma borders, has developed a project that will provide safe employment, promote production and marketing of locally-produced handicrafts, improve food security and reduce dependency on refugee ration.
WEAVE’s coordinated project which is entitled, Together Responding to [...]

WEAVE Supports Safe Income to Refugee Women

28 September, 2009 (12:15) | News | By: Mitos Urgel

For Karen people who live in temporary shelters (refugee camps) on the Thai-Burma borders for the last 20 years, life can be very hard. The everyday challenges of poverty and life as a refugee are compounded by a number of other problems, including over-crowding, poor nutrition and sanitation, lack of economic opportunity, inability to work [...]

July E-Newsletter – Now Online

26 August, 2009 (12:55) | News, Publications | By: WEAVE

The July edition of the WEAVE E-Newsletter is now available online. Read it Here.

July E-Newsletter – Now Online

6 July, 2009 (15:49) | News, Publications | By: WEAVE

The July edition of the WEAVE E-Newsletter is now available online. Read it here.

May E-Newsletter – Now Online

15 May, 2009 (14:50) | News, Publications | By: WEAVE

The May edition of the WEAVE E-Newsletter is now available online. Read it here.

March E-Newsletter – Now online

25 March, 2009 (15:05) | News, Publications | By: WEAVE

The March edition of the WEAVE E-Newsletter is now available online. Read it here.

WEAVE E-Newsletter Now Available Online

19 March, 2009 (13:54) | News, Publications | By: WEAVE

WEAVE is happy to announce that its regular E-Newsletter is now available online. If you have not seen it before, why not have a look at the December and November 2008 editions. The next edition will be coming soon!
To receive future editions of the E-Newsletter, subscribe via email.

New Fair Trade Shop Opens in Mae Sot

13 February, 2009 (15:32) | News | By: WEAVE

A new partnership between Women’s Education for Advancement and Empowerment (WEAVE) and Thai Tribal Crafts (TTC) will be celebrated with the official launch of a new, shared, Fair Trade Shop, at 5pm, 19 February 2009, in Mae Sot, Tak Province, Thailand.

An array of beautifully handcrafted, traditional, Karen textile products will be on show and for [...]