Why we  are here...

Stateless people

A stateless person has no recognized citizenship in any country. They can experience persecution, arbitrary taxation, extortion, restrictions on movement, and limited access to education and healthcare. Their lack of recognized rights and desperation lead many to attempt escaping their circumstances, often ending up in the hands of traffickers or losing their lives through suicide or addiction.

Migrants

A migrant worker is someone working outside of their home country. They often represent a country's poorest people, working in the lowest paid and most dangerous jobs. In many cases, migrant workers are not entitled to the same rights as citizens, leading to exploitation by employers and officials, with children in particular risk of being trafficked.

Internally Displaced people

Internally displaced people are those who are forced to flee their homes but remain within their country's borders. They are often extremely vulnerable, facing food shortage, inadequate shelter, lack of access to clean water, sanitation, healthcare and education. In Karen State many still live as IDP's. Many can not return home due to the coup with frequent fighting, entire villages being burned to the ground, airstrikes, placement of land mines, destruction of food sources, theft of property and killing of livestock.

Children at risk

Children at risk come from all mentioned groups of people. They are vulnerable and at risk due to their lack of identity, poverty, suffering and also their desire to provide for their brothers, sisters, parents and extended family. Parents and family members ask them to go work in the cement jungles of Bangkok-there they are at risk of trafficking and exploitation.

Refugees

Karen refugees are suffering depression and aimlessness as they are cramped in crowded camps, unable to leave and come, counted as a number and hoarded as cattle. They are dependent on outside assistance for the basic necessities to survive. Education or immigration seeming to be the only way out of the darkness and hopelessness. Yet many dream of a day when their Kaw Thoo Lei, the land without evil will be safe from Burmese SPDC and border force, but this day seem far removed as land mines need to be cleared and infrastructure such as medical and health care facilities, educational opportunities and village improvements need to be provided for.​

Anyone in need

During the last fourteen years Karen Outreach have ministered to the oppressed, persecuted, abused, orphaned, abandoned and under privileged along the Thai Burma border. We are also ministering to under privileged, neglected and abandoned children with Thai nationality, never turning anyone in true need away. It is our prayer that God will continue to minister through those who have attended our schools to become godly servant leaders, ready to take their stand on behalf of the suffering and oppressed.