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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








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