"BMWEC is an umbrella organisation of 45 schools; 35 schools are located in Thailand for migrant children and 10 are in the IDP (Internally Displaced People) area inside Karen State. For the 2007-2008 school year we were able to provide 6221 children with schooling, from nursery to post ten programs. BMWEC is a Community Based Organisation working on the issue of Education for migrants children in the Northern Province of Tak in Thailand and in the IDP area (Internally Displaced People) within Burma. We work to help the communities of migrants fleeing from the dictatorship in Burma and its consequences. They flee political opression, economical disaster and more recently the devastation of cyclone Nargys and the deadly lack of reaction from the ruling military junta. They come from various groups, the Arakan, Karen, Shan, Mon and others from different states within the Union of Burma. These Burmese communities in Thailand are stateless, often unrecognised even as refugees. Like the people it tries to help, to date BMWEC itself remains an unregistered organisation, and so we ourselves are in a precarious situation in Thailand..."