Thailand
The Health Clinic Project
The Health Clinic project of The Khan Foundation (TKF), in partnership with the Foundation for Education and Development (FED), aims to address the pressing healthcare needs of Burmese migrant communities in Khao Lak, Thailand. These communities face significant challenges due to their migrant status, including limited access to quality healthcare and education.
Focusing on the Khao Lak area, which serves as a refuge for many fleeing the political instability in Myanmar, the project seeks to provide essential health education and services to migrants, particularly children and adolescents attending FED’s learning centres. These centres not only offer basic education but also act as hubs for community support.
Key components of the project include:
- Needs Analysis: Identified critical gaps in health education and access to healthcare services for Burmese migrants, emphasising the importance of tailored health education and free school health clinics.
- Project Overview: TKF will provide funding to establish health education programs, free school health clinics, and teacher training initiatives. These efforts aim to empower migrants with essential health knowledge and ensure access to basic healthcare services.
- Objectives: To provide fundamental health services to migrant children, improve access to health education, and enhance overall health levels within the migrant community.
- Impact: The project targets to impact over 900 children annually through health education and clinic services, while also training teachers to sustain health education efforts beyond the funding period.
- SWOT Analysis: Highlights strengths such as experienced partners and the provision of essential healthcare services. Weaknesses include financial sustainability challenges and language barriers.
- Opportunities and Threats: Opportunities include scaling potential and collaboration with local stakeholders, while threats include influxes of migrants and changes in immigration policies.
- Monitoring and Reporting: FED’s health team will provide regular updates on project impact and challenges, supplemented by periodic site visits from Dana Asia.
- Sustainability Plan: Incorporates measures like textbook preparation, training-of-trainers, and efficient operations. The project also leverages the Cafe Lab initiative to generate surplus profits for ongoing health clinic costs.
- Exit Plan: TKF aims to fund the project for three years, during which a sustainability plan will be developed in collaboration with DA and FED to ensure continued impact beyond the funding period.
In essence, the Health Clinic project of TKF and FED addresses the immediate healthcare needs of Burmese migrant communities while laying the groundwork for sustainable healthcare solutions through education, community engagement, and strategic partnerships.
The Cafe Lab Project
The Khan Foundation, in collaboration with the Foundation for Education and Development (FED), is launching the Cafe Lab Project, a transformative endeavour aimed at supporting marginalised Burmese migrants in the Khao Lak region of Thailand, near the Thailand-Myanmar border.
Through TKF’s funding of the ‘Vocational Training: Cafe Lab Social Business,’ senior high school students in the area will receive hands-on entrepreneurial education in hospitality. This initiative not only provides essential skills but also generates income to sustain Cafe Lab’s operations and support student needs. Moreover, the project extends its impact by offering basic education opportunities to highly marginalised Burmese migrants who lack access to essential services, education, and healthcare.
By improving employment prospects for marginalised youths transitioning from high school, the Cafe Lab Project offers long-term study and employment opportunities, offering marginalised Burmese migrants a chance to rebuild their lives in safety within Thailand.
