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Exile on main street: Chiang Mai street children

Andy Brown, Fri, Oct 21 2011 9:39 AM

Last week, we took a group of popular Thai bloggers to see projects for marginalised children in Thailand’s Chiang Mai district. After two days visiting orchard schools in Fang, we returned to Chiang Mai itself to visit a drop in centre for street children. The drop in centre was a small building in a side street, with an open-plan play area on the ground floor and an office upstairs.

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Fruits of labour: schools for migrant children

Andy Brown, Mon, Oct 17 2011 9:55 AM

I was in Thailand's Chiang Mai district last week, introducing a group of Thai bloggers to UNICEF-supported projects for marginalised children. After our visit to the orchard night school, we went to see a day school in the same area. We got up early and set off in our vans for an orange orchard outside Fang town.

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Evening class: visiting Thai orchard schools

Andy Brown, Wed, Oct 12 2011 10:04 AM

Thailand is rightly famous for the quality of its fruit, but this comes at a price. As we discovered during a trip to Chiang Mai province, many of Thailand’s fruit orchards are staffed by low-paid migrant workers, whose children rarely get to go to school. The trip was part of a project to reach a wider audience in Thailand by taking 12 well-known Thai bloggers to visit UNICEF-supported projects.

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Away match: Bryan Robson visits Bangkok shelter

Andy Brown, Thu, Apr 14 2011 9:00 AM

Manchester United legends Bryan Robson and Andrew Cole were in Bangkok last week as part of a fundraising tour to help the club raise £1 million for UNICEF’s work with children. During their trip, I went with Bryan to visit Baan Phumvej Reception Home for Boys, to learn how UNICEF is supporting children who have been abused or trafficked.

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Human traffick: a shelter for abused children

Andy Brown, Wed, Mar 9 2011 2:55 AM

How UNICEF is helping trafficked children get an education and reuniting them with their families. Poverty is relative. In the troubled border regions of Burma, there are people desperate enough to sell their own children into slavery...

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Friends in need: children living in Bangkok slums

Andy Brown, Wed, Feb 23 2011 4:54 AM

How UNICEF Thailand is helping children in the slums and streets of Bangkok get an education. Like any large city, Bangkok is multi-faceted and the view you get can be radically different depending on your perspective...

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