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July to Present the Findings of The www.depdc.org depdcblog.wordpress.com Page 1 DEPDC/GMS Development and Education Programme for Daughters and Communities Centre in the Greater Mekong Sub-region D E P D C / G M S J U L Y 2 0 1 1 A Sompop Greeting Welcome to the June edition of the DEPDC/ Inside this issue MTV EXIT GMS newsletter. In this installment, we bring A Sompop Greeting 1 your attention to the MTV EXIT project in Youth Forum which eight of our students traveled to Chiang 1 MTV EXIT Written by: Jamie Houston Mai to participate. It is also my pleasure to Half Day School Crisis 2 share with you the great work and skills learned by our BYLTP students during their Half Day School Staff summer internships, the final step, in preparation for their 2 Community Outreach gradation this June. We are continually seeking new partners and donors to help support and expand our diverse programs Burmese Earthquake offered to at-risk children in the greater Mekong Sub-region. 3 Response As always, thank you to our supporters and those Sompop Jantraka MTV EXIT Continued 4 that believe in our mission Founder and Chair of DEPDC/GMS here at DEPDC/GMS. Give a Man a Fish? 4 Give a Kid a Bike! The MTV EXIT Youth Forum participants outlining the production of their public service announcement. BYLTP Summer 5 Internships Where are they Now 6 Last month sixteen of our DEPDC/GMS Youth Leaders, eight from Mai Sai and eight from Mai Donor Page 7 Sot, received the opportunity to participate in the MTV EXIT (Music Television, End Exploitation and Trafficking) youth forum in Chiang Mai, Thailand. While at the youth forum our sixteen youth lead- Acronym Key ers were given the chance to learn how to use MYN Mekong Youth media as a tool to spread awareness of human Network trafficking on a grass roots level in their home Our DEPDC/GMS youth leaders’ PSA being shown communities and on a national scale. Once the at the MTV EXIT concert. MTV Music Television, MTV EXIT youth participants arrived in Chiang EXIT End Exploitation and Trafficking Mai they immediately set to work on gaining the necessary media skills to produce a two minute HDS Half Day School Public Service Announcement (PSA) on human CHL Child Help Line trafficking to be shown at the conclusion of the four day workshop at a concert hosted by MTV BYLTP Border Youth EXIT . Our participants were thrilled to learn that Leadership Training not only would the concert feature superstars Programme such as Super Junior M, Thaitanium, and ETC but that their completed PSA would be shown to approximately twenty thousand concert at- tendees. The MTV EXIT concert also offered DEPDC/GMS a chance to table the event along The MTV EXIT Youth Forum participants learning with other Thai non-governmental agencies to about human trafficking from the group moderators. spread awareness about human trafficking to the concert-goers. MTV EXIT is a non-government organization 4 formed in 2003 with the intention to positively Continued to page DEPDC/GMS NEWSLETTER P A G E 2 Half Day School Staff a toilet outhouse and repair the roof of their newly built Community Outreach Community member home. The family was also Written by: Alexandra Wolf helping lay struggling to pay for mate- rials to finish the construc- Although DEPDC/GMS’ Half Day School bricks for the toilet tion of their home. was on a break for the Summer holiday, outhouse Leave it to the multi- the Half Day School teachers and staff talented DEPDC staff to put were still hard at work throughout the themselves to work and months of April and May. Twice each year, help out families of our the teachers make visits to the family Half Day Students even homes of all Half Day School children, to Half Day during DEPDC’s Summer connect the students’ school and home School Staff vacation. Nearly all Half lives. members and Day School staff, a number The purpose of these visits is to increase international of DEPDC directors, as well communication between the family and volunteers as the international volun- the school, and to learn more about the working to teers worked together for a students’ home situation. During these repairing the home’s roof. day to repair the family’s visits our Half Day School teachers screen roof, build a septic tank and for social problems and any possible needs also lay bricks for the toilet of the families. Half Day School teachers outhouse. The staff was and staff strive to work with any family in happy to help and even need to find the appropriate short- and Community collaborated to raise funds long-term solutions so that the children members for the required materials. can focus on their studies and have a sta- helping The family, staff and volun- ble and secure home life. build the teers all had a wonderful During this term’s home visits, the family’s out day helping out in the teachers and staff of DEPDC encountered a house toilet. Phatak community. family of a Half Day School student in Phatak village that was struggling to build Half Day School education received by our Half Day Students has rapid research and to answer why so many new not suffered. The students receive Math, Science, Enrollment Crisis children wanted to enroll in DEPDC/GMS Social Studies, Thai, and English education the DEPDC/GMS is doing everything in their efforts Written by: Aine Ferris first half of the school day and then receive vo- to accommodate these new students this com- cational training the second half of the school As a new year of Half Day School com- day. Due to the initiative of one of the new inter- ing October while continuing run a quality and menced in May, DEPDC/GMS experienced an national volunteers, Deirdre, a new Arts and successful Half Day School programme. We enrollment surge of one hundred new chil- Crafts class has been added to the Half Day would like to extend a warm thank you to our dren wanting to enroll in addition to the one School curriculum. The Arts and Crafts class donor CO-OPERAID for sponsoring our Half Day hundred children that returned from the gives the Half Day School students a chance to School programme. previous school year. DEPDC/GMS was able express their creativity while learning English at to accommodate forty of the new children the same time. This past May, DEPDC/GMS also bringing our current enrollment to one hun- held a vocational weekend for Half Day students dred and forty children, but is presently where vegetarian cooking and yoga classes were searching out new donors and partners so taught. all of the children can be accommodated In the meantime DEPDC/GMS wanted to find this coming October. out why the influx of children, coming from a To be able to accommodate all one hun- variety of ethnic groups, occurred this past en- dred new students DEPDC/GMS would need to hire two new kindergarten teachers to rollment period. DEPDC/GMS is in the process of ensure quality education in the classroom conducing rapid research to find out if the influx for all students and secure the finances for of children was due to the recent earthquake in classroom materials, uniforms, food, teacher Myanmar, political or social issues, or poverty. salary, and transportation for the new stu- The rapid research includes interviewing local Director, Khun Noom, teaches some of the dents. authorities, hospitals, and other government and Even though all new students could not students how to prepare vegetation food at non-government schools. A conference will then be accommodated this May, the quality of Vocational Training. be held in July to present the findings of the DEPDC/GMS NEWSLETTER P A G E 3 Burmese Earthquake Response Written By: Noël Lindquist Written by: Christina Belge On March 24, 2011, a damaging earth- Christian shelters who help hill tribe quake hit Myanmar (Burma) with a magni- people in Mine Line Village. tude of 6.8 on the Richter scale. The Daw Easter of Tiri Village said she had “Even though earthquake’s epicenter was just north of never seen this type of natural disaster Tachiliek, Shan State, near the Thai/ before and was deeply saddened. She is we’ve never Myannmar border, about 40 kilometers grateful to the donors and said, “Even met, thank from DEPDC/GMS’s headquarters in Mae though we’ve never met, thank you for you for Sai. The tremors were felt as far away as helping us rebuild from the trouble of Bangkok and Hanoi, Vietnam. It was re- this earthquake.” helping us ported that over 74 Burmese people were U Sai Laung of Tar Kyant Village was rebuild from killed along with one woman who resided also deeply affected by the earthquake in Mae Sai. Myanmar state radio an- Myanmar family that benefited from disaster and said he was struck with fear the trouble of nounced that 111 people were injured. relief provided by DEPDC/GMS. for his community and himself. He said, this Several substantial aftershocks were felt “We have never had this type of natural over the following days. surrounding Tachiliek. During the first disaster. This was the first time for me earthquake.” Significant damage was reported in the visit the youth leaders bought and and others. We feel so unhappy be- villages around Tachiliek including mas- delivered building materials including cause the earthquake has destroyed our - Daw Easter sive fissures in the roadways and collapsed cement, zinc sheets, iron, and nails to town.
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