IMAGINATION. CHANGE

what is Openaid

Openaid has been running since 2002, started in Melbourne. We receive no money from governments and are mostly staffed by a global team working in Thailand, Burma and Australia. We design and deliver programs to empower impoverished and/or abused women and girls. We firmly believe that real change originates internally. The problems of poverty and exploitation are complex and cannot be erased with band-aid solutions. Openaid’s approach focuses on building relationships and channels of dialogue to empower initiatives that achieve sustainable change.

Migrants along the Thai-burma border

Burmese migrants in northern Thailand must pay for work permit cards to be eligible for employment. With partners in Chinag Rai, we support women and families with loans for work permits and microenterprise activities generate needed food and education activities. Read more

 

Income generation and reducing vulnerability

Generating profit and sharing invaluable experiences, microfinance that works for women and girls is the major focus... read more

 

 

 

Daughters in Pattaya

Openaid has been working in slums in Pattaya since 2006 addressing the issue of poverty and violence against women and children. The glaring poverty is horrible and violence pushes women deeper into unhealthy living conditions and hardship. Read more

 

Increasing efforts in villages

Families living in poverty need help to preventtheir daughters from being forced into the sex industry. Openaid is testing school/village-based projects attempting to deliver crucial support to reduce vulnerability of young girls. Read more

 

Rebuilding Amora's house

Saturday June 13, Openaid team members rebuilt Amora's house. Like many mothers with HIV/AIDS, Amora is very poor and has difficulty enrolling her daughter in the education system. Regular contact and support from Openaid helps her troubled family... read more

Directions and objectives

Fundraising to support little girls and impoversihed women in Thailand and Burma and implementing our newest projects... read more about Openaid's objectives

 

Pattaya Ladies Club sponsor project in Chonburi

Pattaya International Ladies Club provided 25,000baht to help fund important project work at Baan Pho Sai School/Village... read more