Archive for tag: Burmese refugees

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 [...]

Mother and Child: The First Five Years

14 October, 2008 (15:05) | News, Publications | By: WEAVE

WEAVE’s Publication and Resource Development team is responsible for publishing materials in the form of books, leaflets and posters concerning Women’s Health, Education and Early Childhood Development.
The Mother & Child poster and the Mother and Child Book is the most recent project which was completed in October 2008. Both have been instrumental in exhibiting the [...]