Borderline Women

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Borderline Women?s Collective, Gallery and Tea Garden, located in Mae Sot, Thailand began with three women?s organisations seeking to establish a shared marketing space for women from Burma and living along the Thai-Burma border to sell their hand made items. The women?s groups also hoped that by having a collectively managed market they would build their capacity for running income generation projects with the communities with which they work. In May 2004, the Borderline Women?s Collective opened... As of December 2017, the members of the Collective are: TBCAF (Tak Border Child Assistance Foundation); KWAT (Kachin Women?s Association of Thailand); LWO (Lahu Women?s Organisation); MWO (Mon Women?s Organisation); WDG (Women?s Development Group); CWG (Chin Women?s Group); CFSG (Community Forest Support Group);WDREC ( Women Development of the Rebuilding Environment and Community); Ying Yan Wan ( Shan Women Group).

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Borderline Women

Date of entry: 

2008-05-04

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  • Websites/Multiple Documents

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English

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