Bridging the educational divide

In Mae Hong Son’s Ban Nai Soi village, 4km by gravel road from the nearest teacher, learners have faced almost insurmountable barriers to formal education. The road is difficult to travel during flood season, there is no access to the internet and electricity is extremely limited, requiring generators and solar power.

In July 2020, the Learning Coin initiative began to bridge those gaps and the digital divide. In this second phase of the programme, 455 children including ethnic minority and stateless communities in Mae Hong Son, disadvantaged Thai and Muslim children in Nakhon Nayok and Yala, and children selling garlands in Bangkok’s Yommarat community…