Most migrant children living in Thailand remain isolated from Thai society and are therefore excluded from utilising the most basic facilities and services. These children are invisible within Thai society and live and grow up within the gates of construction sites or rubber plantations; which are primarily located up in the hills and far from ‘civilisation’. Unless these children are provided with adequate care, nurturing, cognitive stimulation and education they will not be able to enter the Thai school system later on; thus perpetuating the segregation pattern. This, coupled with parents working full-time, leaving the children to their own devices and to look after each other, creates an unsafe and insecure circumstances.

ChildTRAC believes that this is unacceptable and hopes to provide these children with the necessary skills, tools and ‘education’ needed to enable them to later be admitted into a Thai school system; by doing so we hope to present the migrant children of Phang Nga with better opportunities.

ChildTRAC founded the Pakweep Daycare Nursery in 2010, building it from the empty shell of an old Thai house. After hours and hours of constructing and painting, the nursery opened and now cares for approximately 45 children aged 2-5 full-time for 10 months of the year. The children now have access to toys, swings and more importantly (for some), education! ChildTRAC runs the lunch programme here too.

Burmese children get Thai lesson