Food to aid the healing

About 50,000 of of the Karen ethnicity live in Mae La, the largest refugee camp in the Thai province of Tak, on the border with Myanmar. The frustration of everyday life, the lack of perspective of not finding a way out of this reality in part because the Thai government enables through laws which do not allow a humane alternative causes a vast number of them to drown their difficult plight in addiction. Alcohol finds its way into the camp from the Thai side and methamphetamine from the Burmese side. Continued consumption contributes to the destruction of families and well-established community structures. Healing brings hope and a transformative solution to escape this dilemma. Our partner, the DARE Network, is the only contact point on site that fights against this misery. According to traditional Burmese medicine, lengthy processes of detoxification are carried out at regular intervals by expert staff at the Treatment Center. The success rate of 60% is far above the average of about 36% in the "withdrawal clinics". We provide the "clients" and the local professional staff with food for one year, because we believe in the importance of this project and do not want to forget the persecution of the Karen. Please read Sebastian's travel report to get a deeper sense of what it is like ...

download full project report in german