Registered Charity No 1111420
The Izara Khom Loy Trust is a
Background
There are over 500,000 minority hilltribe people and displaced
Burmese nationals living in this area, half of whom do not have Thai ID, so
lack full access to healthcare and education. Those without Thai nationality
are confined to a limited area and cannot seek work further afield.
How Izara Khom Loy Trust works
Khom Loy works to help people in three ways.
Firstly, it runs a programme to convert remote village childcare
centres which teach ethnic minority children aged 3-6 to speak Thai (which is
often not their mother tongue) so they do not enter the Thai education system
at a disadvantage. It has so far converted 19 classrooms (educating over 500
children per year) and has plans to increase this to 70 over the next few
years.
Secondly, it runs an agriculture programme to help villagers become more
self-sufficient in food production, as well as a microcredit scheme to help
smallholders set up in business growing rice and corn. So far, over 2,000
villagers in 30 villages have benefited from their work.
Lastly, it runs a handicraft project to provide jobs in remote communities so
that women can stay at home with their families rather than seeking work in
distant cities and leaving their children to be brought up by relatives. Over
40 women are currently working on their products.
It has also been active helping displaced people in the Khao Lak
area of
Further details
More information on our work can be found at www.khomloy.org,
and some videos showing our projects are at www.khomloy.org/media.html.
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