Karenaid

Serving the needs of displaced minorities in Thailand and Burma

Karenaid is a small Christian charity

Our aims are:

1. To support the displaced people from Burma who are living on or close to the border with Thailand.

2. To advance public understanding and awareness of the difficulties

experienced by displaced people of Burma.

We support:

• An eye care programme;
• Church-based projects;
• Miscellaneous projects including care for disabled children and elderly people

Displaced people from Burma fall into three main groups.

1. People who have been forced to leave their homes but remain in their own country. This group is the most difficult to access and usually the most needy. They are known as Internally Displaced People (IDPs)
2. Refugees are people who have left their homes in order to cross the border into Thailand. They usually reside in camps and their basic needs tend to be covered by large organisations that work on the border.
3. Migrant workers have crossed the border in order to find work. This is often poorly paid and open to abuse but they can still make a better living than the one they had inside Burma.

Patron: Lord Alton of Liverpool