DARE Mission:

The DARE Network program’s priorities to strengthen communities, change attitudes and beliefs through education and to create a cohesive and wide-spread, accessible challenge to addiction throughout all the ethnic communities from Burma represents a way in which these communities can work together to build healthy communities across ethnic lines.

1. Refugees

DARE works with migrant people who flee starvation and war in Burma. There are approximately 150,000 people living in these camps under the control of the Ministry of Interior of Thailand. These refugees are confined to the camps.

2. Migrants

DARE works with migrant workers who come to Thailand to seek work in its cities, towns and villages. More than 1 million migrants are estimated to be working in factories and farms in Thailand for long hours and minimal pay.

3. Internally Displaced People (IDPs)

An estimated 500,000 people are hiding in the Karen, Karenni and Shan state jungles, displaced from their farms and villages by attacks from the Burmese military regime. DARE is working to provide services to this group of people in the future.