Child Protection Thailand Project #6832

Burmese Refugee Youth Prevent Addiction & Violence

by DARE Network (Drug and Alcohol Recovery and Education Network)

Burmese Refugee Youth Prevent Addiction & Violence

Project Report | Dec 27, 2012
Burma Facts and Myths

By Pam Rogers | Capacity Advisor/Addiction Trainer

Running from the Burmese Army

Burma Facts:

For the last 60+ years civilians in Burma have been attacked by the Burmese Junta controlled army
The ethnic people of Burma have be murdered, tortured, used for forced labour and human landmine clearing
For over 35 years ethnic peoples of Burma have been forced to run for their lives to closed refugee camps on the Thai/Burma Border
Thousands of children have been born in these camps and have never been outside them
Culture has broken down and domestic violence is common
50-80% of camp families have alcohol abuse problems

Refugee Camp Facts:

70% of Burmese Refugee Youth use alcohol and drugs
Alcohol and drugs are cheap
Refugee youth as young as 14 years old inject opium
Gang violence in the refugee camps sends 347 young people to the hospital each month
Girls are leaving their traditional roles to take up smoking and drinking
Unprotected sex between refugee teenagers as a result of alcohol use results in pregnancies and HIV. This completely breaks their cultural values

DARE Facts

Over 12 years DARE Network has provided prevention education and/or treatment to over 80,000 people
DARE Network’s treatment success rate is 63%, double western standards
DARE Network is a culturally appropriate, non-medical program run by the refugees for the refugees
DARE Network’s program for youth saves lives

Burma Myths:

Life is now better in Burma and the refugees can go home

Burma Facts:

Their still is no Peace in the ethnic areas of Burma
The refugee camps endure with less funding, less resources and more need

You can help. Give a recurring donation today to DARE Network’s youth programs

http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/burmese-refugee-youth-prevent-addiction-and-violence/

Get your donation matched by GlobalGiving and secure $500. Bonus Funds for DARE. The Recurring Donation Campaign ends at Midnight on December 31st. You still have time to help. Please do it today.

Forced Labour

Villages burned. Families lost.

Everything gone.

Barbed wire refugee camp fences

Burmese Refugee Camp Life

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Dec 16, 2012
Come together...

By Pam Rogers | Capacity Advisor/Addiction Trainer

Playing around with bamboo toys

Dear Friends

Greetings from the Burmese Refugee camps on the Thai/Burma Border. This season is a special time for the refugees. The cool season is here and the conditions are right for special events. Karen New Year corresponds with the calendar New Year and many people in the camps celebrate their cultures and religions, just like all over the world.

For the Burmese Refugees it is bitter-sweet as many families have suffered losses of their loved ones inside Burma. So many families have been unable to leave the camps for decades and so many children have known nothing but a refugee camp.

Our Youth Program continues over the holiday season as it is an excellent time for the teens and kids to share their knowledge with their families and friends. Statistics from the Refugee Camps show us that the biggest influence on parents substance abuse cessation comes from their children. As our Teen Teams share their addiction knowledge with other teens and children, the effect is increasing substantially.

This season please consider partnering with GlobalGiving to support these refugees through DARE Network’s work to prevent and treat addiction in the camps.

We have many projects to choose from and they can be found at this link.

http://www.globalgiving.org/donate/6210/dare-network-drug-and-alcohol-recovery-and-education-ne/

If you want to make your donation really count, consider a recurring donation, which GlobalGiving is matching. If we receive 10 recurring donations on one project, before the bonus money of $25,000 runs out, we will receive an extra $500.

Our Burmese Refugee Youth Prevent Addiction and Violence Project already has 3 recurring donations made in the last week. Help us get to 10. Go to this link and us the recurring donation tab.

http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/burmese-refugee-youth-prevent-addiction-and-violence/

Of course, if you prefer to make a one time donation to any of our programs, we would be very thankful indeed.

If you find you can help out, make sure you get your donation in soon to take advantage of the bonus funds while they last.

Happy Holidays from all of us at DARE Network

It's the little things that count.

Making music to prevent addiction

Life can be very tough...but please come for help.

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Nov 28, 2012
Creating On-going Opportunities for Burmese Refugee Youth

By Pam Rogers | Capacity Advisor/Addiction Trainer

DARE Intern Wah Doh

http://www.globalgiving.org/donate/6210/dare-network-drug-and-alcohol-recovery-and-education-ne/

Greetings Friends of DARE Network from the Thailand/Burma Border.

DARE Network has been providing Addiction Prevention and Non-medical, culturally appropriate treatment to the refugees from Burma for the last 12 years.

A big thank-you for all your support to DARE Network’s programs for the Burmese Refugees. Because of your help, we have been able to rebuild most our treatment centres and to provide Prevention Education activities for the thousands of young refugees in 5 Burmese Refugee Camps on the Thai/Burma Border.

An example of our success working with youth is Wah Doh, who is interning with DARE right now. Wah Doh was born in the refugee camp on the bank of the Salaween River, 20 years ago. He was educated in the camp and had the determination to pass every educational opportunity that came his way. He is just completing a post-high school Public Health Program in Umpiem Mai Refugee camp. Wah Doh said that “most of the young people in the camp use alcohol and drugs, because of the war on civilians in his land Karen State. Wah Doh lost his father when he was young because there was not adequate health care available to save him. And yet, Wah Doh‘s passion to help his people overcome their addictions, especially the youth like him, kept him away from Substance Abuse. He is a remarkable and intelligent young man and we are proud to have him with us at DARE. As you may have read in the news, things are changing in Burma. But the situation remains for the refugees on the Thai/Burma Border. We must maintain our services to them as big International Donors abandon the refugees and move their funding to Rangoon. In the camps, rations have been reduced, education and health care have deteriorated and social problems, including addiction, have increased.

We are in strategic preparations to follow the refugees into Karen State when peace is secure and they finally can return home. We will keep you up to date on these plans as they unfold and unfold they will.

This season we are approaching all of you who have donated in the past two years to consider becoming a recurring donor to our projects on GlobalGiving.

The benefits to you and to us of doing this are many.

You will know that your on-going support will have longer term effects
You will receive updates of the impact of your contribution
You can consider yourself a partner in our work
You will know that our energy will go less into soliciting donations from you and more into putting your donations to work
You will trigger matching funds from GlobalGiving
Your recurrent donations will be transferable to other DARE Network Projects, as we move forward

Here is what is happening this December with GlobalGiving and DARE Network

The Recurring Donation Campaign begins December 1, 2012 at 12:01 am ET and ends December 31, 2012 at 11:59 pm ET.

Recurring donations must be initiated between December 1, 2012 and December 31, 2012 in order to be eligible for matching and prizes

Recurring donations created on GlobalGiving.org will be matched 1-to-1 up to $100 per donor per project. Eligible recurring donations of $101 or more will be matched at $100.

GlobalGiving is offering $25,000 in matching funds. Matching will last until funds run out.

The top 5 projects that recruit the most recurring donors by 11:59 ET December 31, 2012 will win $500 bonus award each. Projects must have at least 10 new recurring donors to qualify for a bonus award.

To see ALL our GlobalGiving projects, including our new MicroProjects and to make a recurrent or other donation please go to http://www.globalgiving.org/donate/6210/dare-network-drug-and-alcohol-recovery-and-education-ne/

Please click on recurring donation and make a monthly donation that you can afford, keeping in mind what you donated last year.

Only credit card/debit card donations will work for this campaign.

If you find you can’t make a recurring donation, a one-time donation is very welcome indeed.

Thanks to people like you, DARE Network has been able to maintain its programs as we are not reliant on big government funding. But we still need your help.

We will keep you up to date on how we are doing in the challenge. That will depend on you. Wishing you all a peaceful season.

All the DARE Network Staff and DARE Teams on the Thai/Burma Border

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