Child Center Project Background The project has been implemented for 2 years to support child development among

migrant children, which aims to instill moral principles and integrate Thai culture in order to ensure that they live in harmony within the Thai community. By introducing basic knowledge in language skills and life skills, children are able to obtain quality of life that children develop skills to communicate with their parents for better understanding towards local community. Remarkably, they have strength to make change within the community and establish good relation with the local people that translate in friendly social milieu in implemented area. Activities were organized to provide basic knowledge in language along with creational activities to equip them with moral principle and righteous practices. Since, the family foundation should be strengthened to contribute to better social environment in harmony. With health programme implemented in the area, some children have potential to become translators assisting patients at the hospital during diagnose process including making appointment for them to collect drugs. Besides, the health programmes requires a messenger to mobilize community that children can be a strong force to bridge the gap in case detection, once they learned about symptoms with basic knowledge of health such as TB and HIV. As a result, they can be a contributing factor to the succeed of the programme, since most of the children are capable of communicating in both languages with basic knowledge in health, the sustainability of child center can translate in holistic approach to ensure that health programme can be operated after the phase out to overcome language barriers between government health officers and migrant patient with assistance from children as well as increasing case detection after knowledge dissemination introduced at school. Implementers Migrant child parent network (health volunteers from World Vision Chumporn Province) Contact persons Nattaporn Maneeklupan Project Coordinator World Vision, Chumporn Province

E- mail: nattaporn_maneekulpon@wvi.org Chonnikarn Phochanakij Advocacy Officer World Vision, Thailand E-mail: Chonnikarn_Phochanakij@wvi.org Resource persons Ministry of Interior Provincial Officer Chumporn Social Development and Human Security (Chumporn Province) Provincial Medical Officer (Chumporn Province) Municipal Director Pak Nam Chumporn Chief of Public Health Pak Nam Chumporn Province Principal of Pak Nam School 4.1 Justification Due to influx of migrants in Thailand, the movement of migrant was driven by economic needs of cheap labour to work in fishery sector, which created inviting environment for migrant labour to serve the demand in fishery sector. Thailand becomes one of the countries that attract migrants with geographic components that allow migrants to mobilize combined with high demand of migrants in other sectors as well as fishery sectors that Thai people find undesirable. Thus, the number of migrants has vastly increased throughout the county particularly adjacent countries cross border between Thailand and Myanmar, they always accompanied with family members to settle in Thailand. Initiatively, World Vision Chumporn was planned to conduct a survey to collect data of migrant children in the area to implement Polio Vaccine for them as indicated below Data collected in August 2007

Ages Below 1 years old 1-5 years old 5-14 years old

Paknarm Chumporn 46 144 131

Pak Narm Lang Suan 12 20 13

Data collection conducted on January 2011 Ages 1-5 years old 5-9 years old Above 9 years old In total Paknarm Chumporn 304 66 92 462 Pak Narm Lang Suan 97 0 0 97

According to the number of child migrants, basic rights have been denied, they have not got access to education that can be contributed to community, thus World Vision Chumpron has launched programme for two sites to establish child center to serve child development to provide knowledge for target groups. This will result in sustainable development of the community with number of children living in the area to be equipped with knowledge, which can make a change in the community and strengthening relation among community members. As a consequence, the programme was initiated to improve quality of lives among migrant children. Geographic and climate components

Delta lied between these two areas connected to the sea surrounded by river with the rise of current, the area always flooded. All years round, the weather is tropical located on Thai Gulf side with high percentage of rain pattern in the area Natural Resources The river flow runs pass both sites that became a part of community with multiple utilizations such as dock, food resource, commercial route, and shelter for ships during monsoon. Occupation Within 2 municipals, the area consists of Thai and migrants around 20,000 working mainly in fishery sector including business and commerce. Baseline situation Migrant children regarded as marginalized population subjected from rights to education that leads to lack of understanding in terms of culture and social background within the community. This also hinders harmony environment enabling them to integrate with local people. During the day time, migrant children need to spend their time productively to prevent petty fight causing disturbance in the community concerning child safety on the street. Being marginalized from mainstream welfare, the system could not serve basic needs of children in terms of health care and nutrition meals including hygiene. With the concern raise of well being among community members in relation to health, the programme aims to solve the issues in collaboration with health community network and migrant health volunteers along with Thai community to work closely with government agencies and other stakeholders to establish child center for migrant children to provide implement education and nursery programmes. This will translate in sustainable community for utmost benefit in t he long run contributing to community driven by strong family foundation. 4.3 Rationale and strategies

To achieve our goals, the analysis has been conducted to ensure that effective mechanism is in place with quality methods to sustain the programme with measurable indicators. Benefiting community in the long run that will meet the expected goals according to our strategies as follows; Collecting data of community and municipals information gathered from government to formulate framework and objectives including goals to accomplish the implementation Collaborating with stakeholders to plan implementation in order to establish child center for migrant children in relation to national policies and response to all aspects Organizing a meeting to inform about target group and pioneering project for 2 years period to stakeholders Forming a committee to operate child center to provide development activities Conduct a workshop and site visit to monitor the operation and curriculum of Ranong PPS Establishing operational system and teaching curriculum along with rules and regulation of child center Conducting evaluation and follow-up mechanism to trace progress of stakeholders Coordinating with stakeholders and implementing the programme align with expected goals Organizing a meeting to inform about progress and present to the committee monthly and quarterly convening with advisors to address the challenges and seek for solutions in the next quarter Existing programme operation Providing learning materials for migrant children equip with basic language skills and health knowledge including child development activities including creational activities varied by age, this will coincide with curriculum provided at Thai development child center. Objectives 1. To provide knowledge on health and hygienic for migrant children 2. To create understanding and perception on cultural differences along with instill moral principles and cultural practices to harmonize the community

3. To serve migrant children to receive basic education as they entitled to basic human right 4. To introduce children as a bridge to deliver messages and sharing knowledge to reduce infectious diseases and communicable disease including reduction of stigma in the community

Target group Migrant children range between 3-6 years old and above 6 years old to 14 years

Implementation period 2 years

Supporting materials migrant network group Procedures 1) Open from 7.30-15.30 to provide nursery service and basic language skills (Thai and Myanmar) 2) Semesters divided into 3 terms per 4 months each 3) Parents support for operational costs between 1-5 days of the months; stationary and meal cost 4) Child safety mechanism is in place to show their guardian cards at the spot when picking up children 5) Casual outfit allowed with orange provided at the center Board members 1) Advising Committtee Ministry of Interior Provincial Officer, Chumporn Province Ministry of Social Welfare and Human Security Provincial Officer, Chumporn Province Representative from provincial medical officer Chief of Public Health Provincial Office, Municipal of Chumporn Province Principal of Pak Narm School

2) Operational Committee World Vision staff, Chumporn PPS; coordinating with stakeholders and monitor the implementation Guest speakers and teachers; organize activities, accompanying visitors at the site, coordinate with stakeholders, organizing activities in the community, monitoring and evaluating progress Additional programme proposal (II phase) Within the past 2 years, the programme has developed language skills for migrant children and managed to transferred children to attend government school in the area for higher education. From time to time, migrant children participate in community activities that create better

understanding and harmonizing the community enabled migrant to integrate with local Thai people. Besides, Thai government started to introduce rights to education and healthcare for registered migrants, however, this requires cost of registration and knowledge dissemination on migrant rights in the area. Some of their parents have not been registered, which disabled their children rights to birth certificate or registration. Once, children registered under the age of 18 years old; they would not be able to obtain jobs due to legal regulation. Thus, they would not get access to schooling and healthcare especially those who the parents are not aware of importance of education and prefer their children to work in order to support the family ( Mahidol University, 2011). Although, the recent site visit shown that the conditions of child center has not got capacity to support greater numbers of children due to lack of space in comparison to number of children in the area. Within one blog of building, the highest capacity on the first floor can not support more than 15 children, while the upper floor capacity only allowed 12 children to participate in language class despite the number of migrant children that exceeded 400. The young ones occupy the ground floor without proper tools and equipment to participate in development activities with sleeping hours provided 3 rows were set for bedding leaving little space for those to squeeze in each one.

Even though, the number of children has dropped in the past year, since the school can no longer provided lunch for children, most of parents have to distribute their money to send their children to the center. With a new policy introduce, the government has planned to set up a

separate body of department to be in charge of fishery sector that can translated in stricter regulation on migrants (MOL, 2011). As a result, the programme becomes unaffordable among migrant parents, they have to provide their kids with meal cost as well as learning material cost. Therefore, the parents decided to withdraw them from the center and locked them up in the house unaccompanied during their work hours and return in late evening, which raise the question of child safety leaving young kids on their own can cause severe stress and accidents that results in life threatened. For instance, one of the children faced brain damage after his dad left him at home on his own, he got electrocuted from sticking his finger into a power socket. With the lack of awareness, children become more vulnerable at home differently from the first finding that they normally roaming around on the street unaccompanied. Stressing the importance of proper nursery provided in the area, the well being of children should be highest priority to ensure their safety and rights to education and healthcare.

Implementation period: November 2011- November 2013 Number of target group 70

List of additional activities 1) Expanding space to support migrant children with better access to education equipped with studying chairs and tables 2) Advocating to organize activities that enable integration between Thai and migrant children 3) Providing training for assessment to enable children attending government school 4) Introducing life skills for children along with basic healthcare knowledge 5) Translating training programme for children to assist people in the community using language skills

Log frame Project details Objectively Verification Indicators Expanding space to support migrant children with better access to education provided with basic studying desks and chairs Building expansion (new building/extended area) Building registration -Distribution/donation from local community -limited numbers of available building in the area -Legal procedure required Means of Verification Assumption

Advocating to organize activities that enable integration between Thai and migrant children

Number of participants in local festivals/ public holiday events

Records/report on participants from child center (list of participants)

-Festival events enable integration of migrant children with local Thai community to create better understanding in terms of culture and practices -Participation from migrants children can create sense of

Project details

Objectively Verification Indicators

Means of Verification

Assumption

belonging and reduce stigma -stigma reduction will have to be overcome to allow migrant children to participate in events Providing training for assessment to enable children attending government school Numbers of migrant children enrolled government school Record/report of referred -Assessment already existed in the programme before children to government schools referring children to Thai school -Numbers of qualified teachers - language barriers create difficulties to attend Thai school

Introducing life skills for children along with basic healthcare knowledge

Number of children participate in life skills and health care knowledge dissemination programmes

-attendance list of migrant children

-children gained basic knowledge on healthcare through existing programme that can be strengthening through additional programmes -Children can be messenger to provide accurate knowledge to their parents -supporting community to strengthening health care programme

Translating training programme for children to assist people in the community using language skills

Number of children participate in the programme

-certificate for those who meet the standards

- target group have basic language skills that can be contributed to the programme -practice required to assist patient at the hospital

Project details

Objectively Verification Indicators

Means of Verification

Assumption

Work plan Project Description Nov-Jan Feb-April May-Jul Aug-Oct Remark

Arrangement for legal registration of building/land

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Procurement of table set (studying desks and chairs)

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Conducting baseline study on nutrition situation of children

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Providing training for staff to cook nutrition food for lunch

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Providing nutrition lunch for children

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Contract with trainers for life skills (basic rights) and language skills to conduct assessment and translator programme

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-Organizing Christmas and new year party in the community -Sending participants to Songkran Festival -organizing TB knowledge dissemination with children in the community (mixed) 24th March

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Forecast Lists of expenditure Year1 Operational cost -Staff cost -Renting the building cost -Procurement of table set -Equipment and furniture (cabinet, Japanese table) -Utilities cost Programme cost -Training (language/life skills/nutrition and health) 3 persons - Procurement for nutrition supplies (40x70x24) 292,600 246,400 539,000 33,600 33,600 30,000 30,000 60,000 Qualified trainers cover 3 programmes (World Vision Nutrition 67,200 Programme expert) 6,000 6,000 6,000 72,000 96,000 45,000 10,000 10,000 72,000 96,000 144,000 192,000 45,000 20,000 Estimate Budget Year2 Total Remarks