Archive for tag: Karen

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 [...]