Education Thailand Project #9815

Emergency Relief Fund in South-East Asia.

by The Branch Foundation

Project Report | Jan 31, 2013
Final Report

By Tom Rosen | Project Manager

Repairing the roof of the girl's boarding house

As with all our reports, we’d like to start off by expressing our gratitude to all of you who have generously donated to this project.

You may have noticed that we reduced the funding goal for this project, meaning it is now fully funded. This reduced funding target is due to an organisational decision to phase out our welfare/poverty relief projects. We are replacing these less sustainable projects with income generating opportunities. Our aim has always been to make the communities less reliant on outside assistance.

While it has been useful in the past to give communities a helping hand with basic necessities, we’re happy to say that they have now reached a point where more sustainable projects are inline with their current and future needs. To read more about the changes to our focus areas, please click here.

Your donations towards this project have led the local community to a point where they are more empowered. Your generosity has also allowed us to focus our attention on projects that provide long-term sustainable solutions.

All the funds from the project have now been disbursed and have provided the following to the Shan Refugee Camp:

Reparation of the girl’s boarding house
Food Relief for 6 months
Provision of Yellow Beans for 6 months
Seed fund for the camp to contribute to income generating projects for self-sufficiency

As this project will soon be closed, we hope to draw your attention to our education project within the same community. We feel that this education project will bring long-term positive change to the Shan Camp community and we truly hope that you will consider being a part of it:

Empower Ethnic Burmese Refugees Through Education

With sincerest gratitude,

Tom Rosen and The Branch Foundation Team.

Distributing Yellow Beans at the Shan Refugee Camp

Weaving - A sustainable income generating project

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Dec 11, 2012
Happy Holidays from The Branch Foundation!

By Tom Rosen | Project Manager

A true traditional expression of gratitude

Happy holidays all the way from Thailand!

The Branch Foundation would once again like to express our enormous thanks for your generous donations. The unwavering support you’ve shown has given peace of mind to vulnerable communities across South-East Asia.

Fortunately no emergency situations have affected South-East Asia since our last report. In light of this lack of disasters in the region, we’d like to bring your attention to a prominent food security concern we’ve been combating over the last year.

The residents of the Shan Refugee camp (Koung Jor), based in northwestern Thailand, have scarcely enough space to raise livestock or grow vegetables. This geographic challenge has led to a distinct lack of available protein, making the community prone to malnutrition and illness. Throughout 2012, we’ve supplied the camp with protein-rich Yellow Beans, ensuring that those in the community can lead healthier lives. This March, we plan to use $300 of your donations to continue providing the Shan Camp with Yellow Beans for 3 more months. Without these beans, health conditions within the camp would decline once again.

Your continued generosity is essential to the livelihoods of those in the Shan community. Upon realizing that people benefit as much from healthy minds as the do from healthy bodies, we recently launched an exciting education project based in the camp. We hope you can take a moment to click the link below and empower the Shan youth to realize their full potential:

Empower Ethic Burmese Refugees Through Education

Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season,

Tom Rosen and The Branch Foundation Team

Distributing the Yellow Beans

Obviously the beans are popular in the camp!

Some of the female students at the refugee camp

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Sep 18, 2012
Update Report - September 2012

By Tom Rosen | Project Manager

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