Supporting Burmese Children and Families in Thailand

More than 3 million people have been displaced from their homes since the 2021 Myanmar coup d’état, fleeing indiscriminate attacks, airstrikes, and the junta’s Conscription Law. The UN estimates that 20,000 of these individuals are fleeing across the border to Thailand every month. 

Peace Winds supports children and families on the Thai side of the Thai-Myanmar border who have arrived in search of safety. In many cases, parents in Myanmar make the heart-wrenching decision to send their children across the border unaccompanied, where they often enroll in community schools called migrant learning centers. Peace Winds is helping schools support growing numbers of students by providing food, hygiene supplies, and funding utilities such as electricity and water. We are also providing case management support to Burmese families who are struggling to navigate school systems, birth registration, health care, and other social services in a new country and a foreign language.