Women Empowerment and Resource Center, Churachanphu, India

The center in Churachanphu is opened in January 2007, targeting for the women who are working on weaving in Churachanphu. The women are welcomed to visit the center and stay for the weekend as to relax, and the center also assists them with empowering them by organizing discussion on various issues, help to build self-confidence, building friendship/ understanding and trust among the women and seeking for knowledge and information.

In the center, there are three full time staffs, coordinator, empowerment trainer and health based trainer. The center open the whole week.

Political Empowerment Program (PEP)

"Now I feel more informed about human rights issues in Burma. I didn’t understand these topics before because we can’t get this information in Burma as the government won’t allow it, but now I can go back to my village to share my skills and knowledge with other people and organizations”, (Past PEP graduate).

Librarry Programs

To empower migrant women population to gain knowledge and understanding on issues such as women's rights, labor rights and human rights by providing space and reading materials and services.

The BWU continues to run two libraries for migrant women workers to provide reading materials and space for hold training, workshops and discussions on issues such as women’s reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, adolescence’s health, women and religion, and women’s role in Burmese society. The libraries are located in Mae Sot and Ranong as part of the organization’s empowerment and capacity building. It is our goal that easily accessible educational and resource materials will serve to educate and help to build migrant women workers’ capacity.

Internship Programs

As a long-term objective, the BWU would like to invest in the future of young Burmese women and girls by arranging programs that help realize their capabilities.

One way to accomplish this objective is to create a space where young women from the camps, migrant community and inside Burma can go to learn important skills and ideologies associated with demanding for their rights. It is our hope that trainings such as these will equip women with skills so that perhaps one day they can become leaders in the organization and the Burmese women’s movement as a whole.

Women’s Human Rights and Empowerment trainings in Regions 1, 2 and 5 in Thailand and Region 4 in India