Each year, many children are born to migrant workers inside Thailand. As a result, these children essentially don’t belong to any country or have any citizenship. They often have limited education and lack the opportunities of Thai children, leaving them vulnerable and at risk of joining crime gangs, being exploited in the sex industry, or used as child labor.

To help combat this problem, Operation Blessing is partnering with House of the Lord Church to run a school for 35 Burmese migrant children in Khok Kloi, southern Thailand. These children, aged 4-15 years, have limited Thai language skills and are therefore unable to enter the Thai schooling system.

The Love of Christ School opened in August 2009 to provide free education for these children. The goal is to lift the standard of education of each child, to a level where they are able to enter a government school and have similar opportunities to Thai children. The students study Thai, English, Mathematics, Science, History, Geography, Burmese, and also receive a hearty meal each day.

Operation Blessing supports the school by paying for the rent and utilities of the two classrooms, salaries for the three teachers, and providing school materials, lunches and milk for the children.

Miss Chanakan, Principal of the school said, “I thank God that Operation Blessing has partnered with us in educating and bringing Good News to these precious children.” At this school, these children who didn’t belong have now found belonging, new hope, and a springboard into a brighter future.