1. Education Program:

• Operating sixteen schools (nine schools providing basic literacy skills and seven nurseries) with the collaboration of the Shan community along the Thai-Shan border.
• Providing Shan language text books
• Organising trainings and networking meetings for teachers

2. Health Program:

• Running three community health centers for migrants and displaced populations on the Thai-Shan border
• Providing basic health care, including maternal and child care, to these communities
• Awareness-raising on preventative health care, especially for reproductive health, and HIV/AIDS

3. Women's Empowerment Program:

• Conducting training on leadership, gender, documentation methods and human rights
• Offering a year-long internship program for Shan women to build capacity levels to run community-based programs along the border and inside Shan State.   From 1999 to 2008, 25 young women have been trained as interns with SWAN, and most of them are working full-time at SWAN and  community-based organizations along the border
• Organizing and supporting Women’s Exchange meetings at six locations on the Thai-Shan border

4. Information & Documentation Program:

• Production of Shan, Burmese and English newsletters, booklets, posters and leaflets on gender issues and human rights
• Documentation of violence against women
• Publication of reports on the situation of women inside Shan State and Thailand

5. Crisis Support Program

• Running two centers for women in crisis
• Provision of emergency assistance to migrant women and children in crisis (access to health services, clothing and food)
• Networking with other local organizations to provide legal and other support for emergency cases
• Conducting handicraft-production and other vocational trainings

6. Income Generation Program

• Selling paper dolls  
• Making conference bags to order
• Producing traditional Shan fabrics and garments