Child Center Project Background The project has been implemented for 2 years to support child development among migrant children, which aims to instill moral principles and integrate Thai culture in order to ensure that they live in harmony within the Thai community. By introducing basic knowledge in language skills and life skills, children are able to obtain quality of life that children develop skills to communicate with their parents for better understanding towards local community. Remarkably, they have strength to make change within the community and establish good relation with the local people that translate in friendly social milieu in implemented area. Activities were organized to provide basic knowledge in language along with creational activities to equip them with moral principle and righteous practices. Since, the family foundation should be strengthened to contribute to better social environment in harmony. With health programme implemented in the area, some children have potential to become translators assisting patients at the hospital during diagnose process including making appointment for them to collect drugs. Besides, the health programmes requires a messenger to mobilize community that children can be a strong force to bridge the gap in case detection, once they learned about symptoms with basic knowledge of health such as TB and HIV. As a result, they can be a contributing factor to the succeed of the programme, since most of the children are capable of communicating in both languages with basic knowledge in health, the sustainability of child center can translate in holistic approach to ensure that health programme can be operated after the phase out to overcome language barriers between government health officers and migrant patient with assistance from children as well as increasing case detection after knowledge dissemination introduced at school. Implementers Migrant child parent network(health volunteers from World Vision Chumporn Province) Contact persons Nattaporn Maneeklupan Project Coordinator World Vision, Chumporn Province
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Social Development and Human Security (Chumporn Province)
Provincial Medical Officer (Chumporn Province)
Municipal Director Pak Nam Chumporn
Chief of Public Health Pak Nam Chumporn Province
Principal of Pak Nam School
4.1 Justification
Due to influx of migrants in Thailand, the movement of migrant was driven by economic needs of cheap labour to work in fishery sector,
which created inviting environment for migrant labour to serve the demand in fishery sector. Thailand becomes one of the countries that attractmigrants with geographic components that allow migrants to mobilize combined with high demand of migrants in other sectors as well as fishery
sectors that Thai people find undesirable. Thus, the number of migrants has vastly increased throughout the county particularly adjacent countries
cross border between Thailand and Myanmar, they always accompanied with family members to settle in Thailand. Initiatively, World Vision
Chumporn was planned to conduct a survey to collect data of migrant children in the area to implement Polio Vaccine for them as indicated below
According to the number of child migrants, basic rights have been denied, they have not got access to education that can be contributed to
community, thus World Vision Chumpron has launched programme for two sites to establish child center to serve child development to provideknowledge for target groups. This will result in sustainable development of the community with number of children living in the area to be
equipped with knowledge, which can make a change in the community and strengthening relation among community members. As a consequence,
the programme was initiated to improve quality of lives among migrant children.
To achieve our goals, the analysis has been conducted to ensure that effective mechanism is in place with quality methods to sustain the
programme with measurable indicators. Benefiting community in the long run that will meet the expected goals according to our strategies as
follows;
- Collecting data of community and municipals information gathered from government to formulate framework and objectives including
goals to accomplish the implementation
- Collaborating with stakeholders to plan implementation in order to establish child center for migrant children in relation to national
policies and response to all aspects
- Organizing a meeting to inform about target group and pioneering project for 2 years period to stakeholders
- Forming a committee to operate child center to provide development activities
- Conduct a workshop and site visit to monitor the operation and curriculum of Ranong PPS
- Establishing operational system and teaching curriculum along with rules and regulation of child center- Conducting evaluation and follow-up mechanism to trace progress of stakeholders
- Coordinating with stakeholders and implementing the programme align with expected goals
- Organizing a meeting to inform about progress and present to the committee monthly and quarterly convening with advisors to address the
challenges and seek for solutions in the next quarter
Existing programme operation
Providing learning materials for migrant children equip with basic language skills and health knowledge including child developmentactivities including creational activities varied by age, this will coincide with curriculum provided at Thai development child center.
Objectives
1. To provide knowledge on health and hygienic for migrant children
2. To create understanding and perception on cultural differences along with instill moral principles and cultural practices to harmonize the
understanding and harmonizing the community enabled migrant to integrate with local Thai people. Besides, Thai government started to introduce
rights to education and healthcare for registered migrants, however, this requires cost of registration and knowledge dissemination on migrant
rights in the area. Some of their parents have not been registered, which disabled their children rights to birth certificate or registration. Once,
children registered under the age of 18 years old; they would not be able to obtain jobs due to legal regulation. Thus, they would not get access toschooling and healthcare especially those who the parents are not aware of importance of education and prefer their children to work in order to
support the family ( Mahidol University, 2011). Although, the recent site visit shown that the conditions of child center has not got capacity to
support greater numbers of children due to lack of space in comparison to number of children in the area. Within one blog of building, the highest
capacity on the first floor can not support more than 15 children, while the upper floor capacity only allowed 12 children to participate in language
class despite the number of migrant children that exceeded 400. The young ones occupy the ground floor without proper tools and equipment to
participate in development activities with sleeping hours provided 3 rows were set for bedding leaving little space for those to squeeze in each one.
Even though, the number of children has dropped in the past year, since the school can no longer provided lunch for children, most of
parents have to distribute their money to send their children to the center. With a new policy introduce, the government has planned to set up a
separate body of department to be in charge of fishery sector that can translated in stricter regulation on migrants (MOL, 2011). As a result, the
programme becomes unaffordable among migrant parents, they have to provide their kids with meal cost as well as learning material cost.
Therefore, the parents decided to withdraw them from the center and locked them up in the house unaccompanied during their work hours and
return in late evening, which raise the question of child safety leaving young kids on their own can cause severe stress and accidents that results inlife threatened. For instance, one of the children faced brain damage after his dad left him at home on his own, he got electrocuted from sticking
his finger into a power socket. With the lack of awareness, children become more vulnerable at home differently from the first finding that they
normally roaming around on the street unaccompanied. Stressing the importance of proper nursery provided in the area, the well being of children
should be highest priority to ensure their safety and rights to education and healthcare.
Implementation period: November 2011- November 2013