Welcome to the HUB!
Positioned near the Thailand/Myanmar border, the HUB is where friends are made, relationships are built and hope that changes lives is experienced daily.
The Border Community LIFEHUB (the HUB) does more than assemble crisis aid and hygiene kits and soy milk. It is a coaching, training, entreprenuerial and launching space for young adults in transition or entering the workforce for the first time. We provide essential training and educational support to launch teams into the community to come alongside vulnerable children, families and communities in the region.
Kevin & Julia Garratt
Founders of Nation to Nation
The Garratts' education, training and community development work in China ended in 2014 with abduction and false imprisonment. Pawns in a Canada/China geopolitical dispute, the 775-day ordeal as hostages and Chinese prison is recounted in their captivating story of resilience and hope called Two Tears on the Window.
Kevin and Julia now oversee Nation to Nation. Their multi-nation team focuses on conflict-distressed communities coping with the challenges of displacement and poverty in Myanmar and along the Thai/Myanmar border. Offering a powerful Christian hope message, they live alongside host communities assisting with crisis aid, Youth Vision and educational leadership training, and offer replicable sustainable development and livelihood solutions designed for long-term impact.
LIFEHUB Community
Since founding the HUB at the Thailand/Myanmar border in 2021, Kevin & Julia have formed a multi-nation team, including a core team of 8 Thai, Burmese, and Karen nationals, and 7 Youth Ventures interns. We also host short-term volunteers from Thailand and other nations.
The LIFEHUB Model
Replicable sustainable livelihood
Prayer & Worship
Community Impact
Spiritual Formation
Training
Each LIFEHUB is a small local-driven community built on a replicable sustainable livelihood model that incorporated prayer, worship, spiritual formation, skill building and training, and community outreach & development as part of integral every day.
LIFEHUBs challenge all participants—local national staff, interns and program participants, and overseas visiting volunteers—to live out the Words and works for Jesus while training and engaging in a variety of community development and educational initiatives.
What We Do
Nation to Nation provides life-sustaining resources, walking alongside Burmese and Thai communities as they respond to systemic challenges such as forced displacement, health crises, food insecurity, sustainable livelihood, lack of education and work challenges magnified by poverty.
Communities on-the-run
Myanmar children, youth, and families are experiencing forced displacement from their homes and villages due to ongoing conflicts. Many times, they leave with only what they can carry on their backs, leaving them vulnerable to food insecurity, hygiene concerns, lack of access to clean drinking water, and needed items for shelter and safety.
Positioned at the border, we join our network of local nationals to provide critical aid and compassion whenever needs arise.
Our Compassionate Response:
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Rice and emergency crisis aid: Food (rice, eggs, oil, canned fish, etc.), hygiene kits (soap, shampoo, dental hygiene supplies, dish soap and laundry detergent), shelter (blankets, mosquito nets, mats, tarps, leaf roofs)
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Emergency shelters, mosquito nets, blankets, tarps, solar lights, etc. for displaced communities in crisis.
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Mobile and large-scale clean water systems
Migrant Children / Students
Systemic challenges such as forced displacement, food insecurity, unstable livelihood, lack of access to education, and work challenges can influence a Myanmar family’s decision to relocate. Because of this migration, we see a big need to help support migrant children in the border communities so they are not forced into child labour or exposed to human trafficking.
We support migrant children by working with migrant schools and children's homes to help ensure quality education and consistent, healthy nutrition for sustainable and continuous impact and growth.
Our Compassionate Response:
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LIFEPAC backpacks filled with locally-sourced school & hygiene supplies and school uniforms
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Fitness and afterschool fun activities
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Weekly soy milk and nutritious meals
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Weekly spiritual formation training
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Summer camps
LIFEHUB & Next Steps for Youth
The LIFEHUB is a gathering place on the Thai/Myanmar border where our team prepares for the different programs: we produce weekly soy milk, pack monthly family sacs and LIFEPACs, brainstorm and prepare for training among many other things. It also hosts the Youth Vision program, which trains and equips youth with life skills so that they can build self-efficacy in themselves and their futures. The interlocking of the LIFEHUB activities and Youth Vision program also provides opportunities for relationship building and positive role-modeling all while having fun.
Our Compassionate Response:
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Building community through LIFEHUB with national staff and team members
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Youth Vision Program to provide sustainable livelihood training to improve English language skills, financial literacy, time & risk management, and social skills
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Youth Ventures Internship to launch youth to continue to grow through HUB internship or furthering their education
Vulnerable Families In-Need
Families deserve safety, security, and access to food, employment, and health so that they can thrive in all areas of wellness. We know to create long-term generational change we not only invest in the children but also support the family as a whole.
Our team goes out into communities, connects with families, understands their needs, and offers care, support, and encouragement in addition to essential items for living.
Our Compassionate Response:
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Monthly family sacs with urgent crisis aid like rice, dried noodles, eggs, oil, sardines, and chilli paste, hygiene kits, and other resources including toys, clothes, solar lights, medicine, etc.
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Personal care with monthly visits
“Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have.” 1 Peter 3:15
Your Generosity Brings Hope that Changes Lives!
LIFEPAC Backpacks
$105 / student
for a loaded LIFEPAC &
6 bi-monthly hygiene kits
Monthly Family Sacs
$100 / family sac
for monthly outreach to families & caregivers in crisis or extreme poverty
Empower LIFEHUB Leaders
Be a monthly LIFEHUB Partner
Learn/Live/Lead/Launch HUB Community Training Program
Youth Vision Program
$450 / 18 week
Success for Life & Entrepreneurship training for at-risk teens
Rice &
Crisis Aid
$3500 gives
Urgent rice, staple food and essential aid for a community in crisis
Bless a Community
A generous response
brings crisis shelter, safe houses, multi-use community spaces, schools, education, transportation and more.
