UWSP Promo Video: The Thailand Project

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Higher Education as Humanitarian Aid provides a college education and secures basic human rights for graduates from the Development Education Program for Daughters and Community (DEPDC) who have dedicated their lives to the fight against statelessness and child exploitation.

DEPDC is a non-profit, community based, non-governmental organization (NGO) located in Mae Sai, Thailand. DEPDC focuses on working toward preventative solutions to the problems of human trafficking, child prostitution, and other exploitative child-labor situations. It offers free non-formal education, vocational training, and full time accommodation for female/male youth ages 4-25.

Many of these individuals do not hold birth certificates of their own and are not recognized by any country as citizens.

Quite simply, they do not exist. If not for DEPDC, a non-formal education would not have been possible. A college education was out of the question. Until now....

Through extraordinary international cooperation, the Kingdom of Thailand made a landmark decision to allow two stateless individuals to study abroad in the United States.

On August 25, 2008, The University of Wisconsin Stevens Point welcomed the first two Thailand Project scholarship recipients from DEPDC.

The impossible is suddenly possible, but the program desperately needs financial support to continue to cover the student's tuition as they work towards a bachelor degree. So far, the two students have only been sponsored for their first year of education and the programs funding deadline for next year is quickly approaching.

The atrocity of child trafficking is not so massive that we can accept to do nothing. Please give what you can.

http://www.uwsp.edu/special/thailandproject/DONATE.html

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[TheSmoothGrind]

@sabaidi747 I personally know Aor from the video. She was born in Thailand, but she is half thai and half Chinese, since her mother was citizen of China, she was not recognized as citizen of Thailand and per China's laws, she was not recognized as citizen of China. Pretty strange huh?

[sabaidi747]

Interesting project. However, this documentary doesn't explain why these people are living in Thailand but cannot get the thai nationality or cannot leave their district. Did they come from Myanmar or Laos ? Are they part of an ethnic minority ?