The work
Thai–Myanmar borderSchools where there were none.
Schools on the border, and jungle schools in the communities further in. Once a school is standing, local teachers run it.
What happens here
Classes run through the year, and the school stays open.
The teachers carry more than the lessons. They work with the parents, with health and hygiene, and with the leaders of the community around the school.
Through the worst of the conflict the teaching kept going, because the people doing it were already living there.
Who runs them
Local teachers, trained for this.
The teachers
Local people who trained at EAI's own teacher training college. The first students from these schools have finished, and are training now to teach in them.
What they need next
The communities are growing, and the older students need somewhere to go after primary. That means new classrooms, and teachers trained to run secondary classes.
Where this sits
Some of these students are teachers now.
Students who finish here can go on to the teacher training college, and the first of them are training to teach in schools like the one they sat in. EAI calls this its sustainable model.
The college where they train, and the teachers who train them.
Photographs
EAI's own pictures, used as shot.