Avoda Mission in Thailand - Emergency Nutrition Food-Aid ; Avoda Foundation

  “Some children are born without a name in any system. No birth certificate. No right to go to school. Not even the right to exist openly. They didn’t choose to be born into war, but they’ve been running from bombs and gunfire for as long as they can remember.” Though they have survived war, these children still live hidden in the shadows of the law. They are stateless children , without legal identity, safety, education, or a future. This is not a scene from a war film—it is the reality of thousands of children along the Thai Myanmar border who have been forgotten. Fleeing the ongoing conflict in Myanmar, countless boys, girls, and mothers have crossed into Thailand illegally. While they may have escaped bullets, they now face another silent, deadly, and enduring war—the war of inequality in rights . These children have no legal documents, no birth registration, and thus no access to the basic human rights that every child should have. Many refugee children living in border villa...

  When the Sound of Bombs Destroys a Generation's Future In some parts of the world, children wake up to the sound of alarm clocks to go to school. But on the other side of the border, many children wake up to gunfire, explosions, and the screams of people fleeing for their lives. One night in Karen State, Myanmar, an eight-year-old girl was carried away from her home in the middle of a blazing fire. She couldn’t remember grabbing anything with her—only the clothes on her back and her mother’s tightly gripped hand. When they reached the Thai side, she no longer cried. She was too exhausted to have any tears left. That marked the beginning of a new life with no home, no citizenship, and no word for “school.” That child has a name... but no future. She doesn’t know the word “teacher,” has never held a book, never stood in line for the national anthem, never heard the school bell ring. No one has ever asked her what she wants to be when she grows up—because the adults around her are j...