Project Name: Comics for Burmese Refugees
Beneficiaries:
100 young people aged 6 to 22 (average age: 17) living in one of the youth residences in Nu Po Camp (Thailand), a camp for Burmese refugees located in a remote jungle area 232 km from Mae Sot.
Organisers:
a small group of volunteers who have worked with Burmese refugees and migrant workers in Thailand and who are sensitive to the Burmese cause. Two of the organisers are personally acquainted with the adolescents of this youth residence. Last year they spent several days visiting with the residents and gaining a clear understanding of their needs.
Goals:
• Support the English lessons given at the camp school (reading skills)
• Provide the children with an entertaining pastime
• Introduce the children to drawing (artistic expression) and comic-strip creation (writing skills)
Supplies to be distributed:
English-language comics/illustrated books, additional English-Burmese dictionaries* and drawing materials (plus other basic supplies as needed). The books will be collected in Europe while the rest of the supplies will be purchased on site.
Project sites:
Paris, France (collection of funds and books), Mae Sot, Thailand (purchase of supplies) and Nu Po Camp (refugee camp in Thailand where supplies will be distributed).
Timetable for project deployment:
• Phase 1: spring of 2010.
• Phase 2: summer of 2010.
Budget:** Approximately €1,000.00
*Last year we distributed 80 dictionaries, but 20 additional adolescents have since joined the youth residence.
**The budget will finance the supplies to be distributed, including shipping (the organisers travelling to the camp will naturally finance their own transport), a holiday meal for the children, with the possible addition of supplies to meet other urgent needs, for example warm blankets for the 20 adolescents who joined the residence in June 2009, as well as vitamins, cleaning supplies and medicine.
Beneficiaries:
100 young people aged 6 to 22 (average age: 17) living in one of the youth residences in Nu Po Camp (Thailand), a camp for Burmese refugees located in a remote jungle area 232 km from Mae Sot.
Organisers:
a small group of volunteers who have worked with Burmese refugees and migrant workers in Thailand and who are sensitive to the Burmese cause. Two of the organisers are personally acquainted with the adolescents of this youth residence. Last year they spent several days visiting with the residents and gaining a clear understanding of their needs.
Goals:
• Support the English lessons given at the camp school (reading skills)
• Provide the children with an entertaining pastime
• Introduce the children to drawing (artistic expression) and comic-strip creation (writing skills)
Supplies to be distributed:
English-language comics/illustrated books, additional English-Burmese dictionaries* and drawing materials (plus other basic supplies as needed). The books will be collected in Europe while the rest of the supplies will be purchased on site.
Project sites:
Paris, France (collection of funds and books), Mae Sot, Thailand (purchase of supplies) and Nu Po Camp (refugee camp in Thailand where supplies will be distributed).
Timetable for project deployment:
• Phase 1: spring of 2010.
• Phase 2: summer of 2010.
Budget:** Approximately €1,000.00
*Last year we distributed 80 dictionaries, but 20 additional adolescents have since joined the youth residence.
**The budget will finance the supplies to be distributed, including shipping (the organisers travelling to the camp will naturally finance their own transport), a holiday meal for the children, with the possible addition of supplies to meet other urgent needs, for example warm blankets for the 20 adolescents who joined the residence in June 2009, as well as vitamins, cleaning supplies and medicine.
