The Best Friend : Building houses at the Relocation Center

The Best Friend Library Mae Sot (Thailand)

The Best Friend Library – Mae Sot is a library and information center operated completely through the efforts of volunteers and donations from supporters. It is a hotspot for Burmese migrants, refugees and interested people from all over the world who come here to learn...read more

Peace Campaign

The Best Friend Project’s Peace Campaign commenced in 2006 with a 29-day peace march from Cologne to Berlin led by Ashin Sopaka. Since then it has evolved into much more: from The Best Friend’s home in Mae Sot...read more

Rubbish Dump of Mae Sot

Along the Thai-Burma border the rubbish dump of Mae Sot, Thailand has become a refuge for many migrant families from Burma. Houses, constructed from bamboo and plastic materials currently exist at the rubbish dump...read more

Burma Voices

For decades, the people of Burma have been silenced by a brutal regime that cracks down every peaceful opposition with brutal force. The Burmese people can and want to speak out though, and recent technology has enabled them to do so better...read more

Thursday 25 October 2012

Building houses at the Relocation Center

This local woman is producing roofs for our houses at the relocatian center.It is a beautiful place under Teak trees with a lake and a school on the same ground.

We start with two houses, two toilets and a training center for our relocation project. Two families from the rubbish dump of Mae Sot will live here and several woman from the dump site will be attending sewing classes in our training center. For this training center we bought 12 sewing mashines.

The children will go to the nearby school on the same property. The headmaster of the school supports our project and we will open a library there soon.

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