Help Without Frontiers

At the end of July 2018, Help without Frontiers, Right to Play Thailand Foundation, and Rights Beyond Borders launched a study on the situation of children on the move in Mae Sot. Children on the move are children who have come to Mae Sot either to study, because they followed their parents, or because they are orphaned and in need. The presentation and the study itself highlighted the many risks and challenges that go along with being a child on the move such as the dangers of traveling both across borders as well as internally. Indeed, groups of children cross the border regularly, using both official and unofficial routes. The available information on the situation of migrant children is unclear, so that few statistics are elaborated on children crossing the border on daily basis, children in public schools, children in Migrant Learning Centres, and children dropping in and out. Thus, identifying children that have been neglected and are in need of help is still extremely difficult.