On January 27, 2013, a migrant family namely Ko Myint Hlaing and Ma Khin Cho Aye came to SAW Safe House in the morning and feed the children from the safe house with rice noodles soup. This family was a frequent visitor donating various foods for the children from the safe house, and it mostly donated special occasions like traditional Buddhist holidays. The family said, “We feel overwhelmed by... 

With the aims to cover for the kitchen expenses, to understand the benefit of planting for the children and to endorse career training for the children, SAW had started a garden in Kantbiban village, Mae Sot in this year. Currently, it has been planting the plants like eggplants, cucumbers, squashes, chillis, ladyfingers and sour spinach in the garden. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1... 

It’s the raining season again. Whenever I felt the rain, I always remembered Moe (rain in Burmese). Moe had left us for a few years already. I still thought about her. I met her at a crowded market in a border town. I looked back when I heard someone calling “Moe”. And, there I gazed a beautiful young lady wearing the short tight shirt and a long skirt walking towards me. She gave me a brief... 

Saturday, 10 January 2009 The students of SAW’s High School received the DPT and OPV vaccinations from the Mae Sot General Hospital every year. [cincopa AYEA3sq7jYH9]  Read More »

Social Action for Women has created a Safe House in 2000 to provide shelter and basic needs for abandoned children and to protect children from trafficking. It has been operating for ten years and has capacity to accept 70 abandoned and orphaned children. Forty-seven children from this Safe House have gone to Thai public school since 2005 and their educational fees are supported by individual donors. ... 

In 2000, SAW started a safe house for displaced Burmese women along the Thailand-Burma border who are vulnerable. The aim of this program is to provide support services in areas of health, education, safe housing, vocational training, and helping to reunion with families. Migrant workers are in danger of being unexpectedly fired at any time and there is no guarantee of pay. When women are terminated... 

  Two third of immigrants who arrive inThailandfromBurmaare the children and women. Children travel themselves or immigrate with their parents. Generally, Children who travel themselves in search of work, become victims of the human and drug trafficking, and are exploited and violated their rights in some ways. As child labours are very cheap, many are being trafficked to the big cities such asBangkok.... 

Most of the people coming out ofBurmawere trafficked and sold to the sex industries. The poor working conditions in the factories ofThailandalso push the women to become sex workers and victims of sexual abuses. The lack of health education among these has increased the number of the PLWHA women and children in Mae Sot. Moreover, due to their statelessness, fleeing Burmese women and children infected... 

Burmais ranked thirteen in the worst list in the Trafficking in Person annual report by the US Department of State on 2010 June[1]. Little or no help have been done to help those trafficked victims from the government. In response to the need of support for the trafficked populations, Social Action for Women has working to be able to help them from every possible ways. Since 2000, Social Action for... 

  SAW has started the boarding house since 2005 together with the SAW school. Although SAW has already the safe houses for children, there are crowd and the boarding house needs to open separately. InBurmaespecially in the border areas, there are so many arm conflicts and because of these conflicts, so many children have to be in the plight. They have to loose the chance to get the proper education....