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"Thai Freedom House is a community language and arts learning centre, funded in October 2005 that provides educational support to people who may not have any or very limited access to formal education. They are mostly new refugees from Burma and small tribal villages.
Thai Freedom House's On-Site learning centre has 37 students from around the city, who live in construction camps and have no access to public education because of their illegal refugee status. Their parents work in the construction industry of Chiang Mai, toiling for 12 hours a day in the tropical heat of Thailand while the children stay at the camp and take care of each other. Some of them also work, doing small jobs on the construction site to help out. These children may have a chance to go to a free temple school in the future but cannot if they do not speak/read/write in Thai. Thai Freedom House teaches them Thai, English and Shan language and culture so that don't lose connection with who they are ands where they come from" (ARI Handbook, May 16, 2016).
This workshop was a lot of fun and it is definitely something that I will use in the future for a recycling unit! Sarah and Emma ran a plastic bottle fish workshop with the kids. They discussed the importance of recycling and how we can reuse things that we use every day. The students were given creative freedom, they could cut the fish however they would like and add as many fins or make the tails as elaborate as they wanted. After 45 minutes of cutting and glueing the students took a snack break. When they came back it was time to paint their fish. The students went above and beyond and they all turned out wonderfully.