Non-formal Education and Literacy

In the highlands of Tak province, Thailand, there are a large number of ethnic minority groups especially Karen people who are Thai illiterate which accounts for 3 percent of the total population over 15 years old age group. UNESCO in collaboration with...

It’s not your typical karaoke session. The giggles and apparent trepidation a young woman shows before launching into a Thai love ballad might not be out of place among a group of friends out anywhere in the country, but the focus here is neither on vocal...

A successful graduate says a UNESCO-run literacy programme made her feel more confident and opened up personal and work opportunities she previously hadn’t dreamed about Twenty-four-year-old Karima grew up forbidden to go to school – first under Taliban...

An orphanage opened more than a decade ago at the Thai-Myanmar border offers ‘a future and hope’ to dozens of abandoned and orphaned youngsters When Lily tells the story of her Heavenly Home orphanage at the Thai-Myanmar border, she doesn’t focus much on...

Born into poverty and orphaned early on, a young woman finds fresh opportunities and a new life thanks to a flexible education initiative inside Bangkok's iconic Wat Arun “No job, no studies, and no good opportunities,” is how Winda Singhom sums up her...