According to the 2009 United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) Annual Report, there have been approximately 140,000 refugees from Burma living in the nine camps along the Thai-Burma border for over 25 years, and approximately 3.5 million stateless people living throughout Thailand. Almost half of these populations are children under 18 years old. Lack of citizenship and legal status in Thailand deprive them of their basic human rights and access to social services, especially the right to any education. (READ MORE...)

By creating universal awareness of the issue of statelessness, the documentary project will enable the public to take action, challenging governments to pass and implement laws that protect stateless populations within their borders, and empowering stateless populations with an international platform. (READ MORE...)

Our greatest challenge within Thailand itself is to provide proof to stateless parents that their children’s education is the key to progress. They need to be shown that education can remove barriers from road-side checkpoints and that the Thai government will recognize that their children have more value as Thai citizens than as prostitutes or migrant laborers. (READ MORE...)

PEEK produces cultural exchanges and creates friendships between stateless children along the Thai/Burma border and the children of Central Wisconsin. Tonya Kowalski, education director of the Central Wisconsin Children's Museum, is excited about the new project: “This partnership is imperative in teaching the lesson of global friendship." (READ MORE...)

Bring the lecture to your campus or group! Joseph Quinnell (Co-Founder and Co-Director of The Thailand Project) will share the story of the project from initial concept to ultimate execution, and challenge the audience to use its skills and abilities to help others. (READ MORE)

From the "See-RED!" on-campus fundraiser to the "The 3 Things You Can Do!" online fundraiser to the "Match Campaign", our fundraisers and awareness campaigns have brought in more than $200,000 in donations supporting our initiatives. Keep your eyes open for our next event! (READ MORE)

Arts for Humanity in Thailand was a truly unique credit-earning study-abroad opportunity that enabled students from the College of Fine Arts and Communication at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point to share their artistic gifts and abilities with at-risk children cared for by the Development Education Program for Daughters and Communities in Mae Sai, Thailand. (READ MORE...)

During the summer of 2005, University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point art student Joseph Quinnell began photojournalistic research inside the child sex trade/prostitution industry in Thailand. Quinnell gathered intelligence in the attempted rescue of two children being sold within a brothel, and interviewed numerous women working as prostitutes, while beginning a friendship with Sompop Jantraka and the children at the Development Education Program for Daughters and Communities. (READ MORE...)