Who we are and what we do

BMWEC is an umbrella organisation of 45 schools; 35 schools are located in Thailand for migrant children and 10 are in the IDP (Internally Displaced People) area inside Karen State. For the 2007-2008 school year we were able to provide 6221 children with schooling, from nursery to post ten programs.

BMWEC is a community based organisation created by the schools and each is represented by their headmaster. They take part in quarterly meetings and elect an Executive Committee every three years. Committee members are headmasters and other community leaders that are well recognized among the migrant education workers.

But above all we are migrant education workers too. We have been active in education for many years in Burma or in Thailand. Our own teaching qualifications range from high school to university level or College diplomas. Like the children coming to the schools, we too are stateless. We are people from Burma and from fighting states, fleeing a dictatorship, but we are doing everything we can to educate our people. This inspires and influences our soul, our aims, our mission and our work. We all suffer the same issues in Thailand and all aspire to a better situation where our basic human rights would be recognized and among them the basic right to education.