World Education Thailand overseas the daily operations of 2 schools dedicated to developing the capacity of our local partners and stakeholders within the migrant and refugee communities along the Thailand –Burma Border. Within the Wide Horizons and English Immersion Program (EIP) schools, young adults learn to work within their communities to address needs and begin to implement solutions.

The Wide Horizons program, which will start its second year of operation in June 2007, is located in Mae Sot, Thailand. It is open to all Burmese ethnic young adults living along the border. Its vision is to develop young adults from Community Based Organizations (CBOs) to be able to initiate, design, develop, and manage projects for their communities. English skills are emphasized so that the young CBO workers can better communicate with international organizations and funders. The curriculum also focuses on development in computer skills, translation skills, proposal writing, project design, human resource management, monitoring and evaluation.

EIP or the English Immersion Program, has been operating for over 5 years in the Umphium Mai refugee camp. It was started at the request of the camp leadership who recognized the training need for the ‘best and brightest’ refugees from the seven camps along the border. The curriculum is similar to the Wide Horizon school but oriented to the refugee context.

In both of these schools, the instructional emphasis is on experiential learning in which the students work together to initiate, design and implement projects within the communities surrounding each school. The ten months spent on the campus is followed with a year practicum period in which students return to their communities or CBOs to begin applying what they have learned.

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