By Heather Askew | Project Director
In our Child Empowerment Program, the first session teaches the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. We have had the opportunity to teach this session in four different areas of Chiang Mai Province. The best result to come so far was in Mae Jam county. This is about three hours from Chiang Mai city and consists of many tribal groups who have not had the advantage of higher education and many of whom still struggle with economic hardship, substance abuse and other issues.
Many tribal children must board at a home while attending high school, due to the lack of schools in their village area. We did this training at one such dorm, and after we finished, the house mother came to Butsaba with tears in her eyes. Her sister was in an abusive relationship and didn’t know what to do. She was beaten so badly she ended up in the hospital for several days. When she asked the village chief for help, he wrote it off as “a family matter.” Now that she had learned about human rights and that her sister had legal rights as a human, she could go to the police and report this abuse to get help for her sister. She couldn’t thank Butsaba enough for sharing this topic with her and the students.
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