Women's Crisis Center

In 2000, SAW started a safe house for displaced Burmese women along the Thai-Burma border. The aim of this program is to provide support services in areas of health, education and safe housing. Migrant workers are in danger of being unexpectedly fired at any time and there is no guarantee of pay. When women are terminated from their job and left homeless, they have difficulty finding temporary shelter while looking for new employment. As a result, many vulnerable women are lured into sex trade. Burmese women migrant workers, including girls, are vulnerable to attacks and human rights abuses such as trafficking, exploitation, rape and murder. SAW named this safe house the Women's Crisis Center (WCC) in March 2005. WCC empowers women to make healthy decisions about their livelihood.

Objectives

- To assist displaced Burmese women along the Thai-Burma border by providing support services in areas of health, education and safe housing

- To provide work-skill trainings to strengthen their abilities

- To empower women to make healthy decisions about their livelihood

- To decrease women trafficking

Activities

- Providing shelter and basic need services for the women

- Providing health care, health education and trauma counseling

- Providing education and trainings such as sewing, knitting, hair cutting, women rights, human rights, etc.

- Empower women to utilize their own personal power for their livelihood

- Finding jobs for women in need at the Women Crisis Center

- Assisting women, who want to go back to Burma

Target

- Former prostitutes, abused women, orphaned girls, terminated factory workers, vulnerable pregnant women and women who face serious difficulties