When our LIFEHUB trucks roll into EM school on Fridays, smiling children run from all directions.
Many of these children’s parents find unstable refuge and low wage work on remote work farms after fleeing Myanmar. Resilient families build their own one-room stilt homes with leaf roofs on their landlord's property in the hills nearby EM school. Families struggle to overcome poverty, the children are vulnerable to domestic conflicts and hopelessness.
Without stable access to education, these children have a very high chance of becoming child labourers or being coerced into teenage marriages on the farms.
Sal's hope vision for the children
Sal and his wife started a school and church, where Sal is the principal, pastor, school truck driver and teacher along with 7 other teachers including Sal’s wife.
Nation to Nation’s LIFEHUB has partnered with Sal since Sept 2022. Our team hosts Fun Fridays using Bible themes, songs, dance, and activities in Thai, English and Burmese. We love to add a splash of creative fun with props, costumes, and outdoor play supplies as well!
On a typical Fun Friday, our team delivers a 40kg rice bag, 3 bottles of oil, 10 flats of eggs, 20 large cabbages to the kitchen for the weekly hot lunch. Every month, we unpack 143+ hygiene kits for the children and hygiene kits and food aid sacs for the staff and families in crisis.
With our donors’ support, this June new students all received LIFEPAC backpacks and everyone has a place to play outside, a new sport uniform, and access to a nutritious meal and clean water. Sal is beaming about his new school truck and a teacher to help drive children back and forth from the farms.
The 143 EM school children now have a chance to be who they really are—children with hope-filled destinies and unlimited potential.
Thank you to all who help the EM school!
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