THAI-BURMA BORDER: Bridges of Peace and Hope
ORGANISED BY: WEAVE (Women's Education for Advancement and Empowerment)
WHERE: Bridges in Karenni Site1, Karenni Site2 and Umpiem Mai camp, Thai-Burma border
WHEN: March 8, 2012
EMAIL: weave@weave-women.org
WOMEN ON THE BRIDGE: Weave on the Join Me on the Bridge website
Women Join Together in Multiple Peace Marches
By Mitos Urgel, Executive Director, WEAVE
Karenni Site1, Ban Mai Nai SoiOn March 8, 20112, WEAVE Foundation (Women's Education for Advancement and Empowerment) celebrated women around the world for International Women's Day.
Together with our refugee community partners, simultaneous peace marches were held towards the bridges of Karenni Site 1, Karenni Site 2 in Mae Hong Son Province and in Umpiem Mai, Tak Province Thailand. Over 500 refugee women, young girls, children and men were part of this historic event.
Karenni Site2, Ban Mae Surin
Standing at their respective bridges, they joined in solidarity with the rest women of the world in the "Join Us in the Bridge", the world's largest women's rights solidarity campaign to build peace and hope for our future.
Karenni Site1, Ban Mai Nai SoiAnd as well, they called for an end to violence against women in areas of conflict, for women to have equal right in decision-making processes, and for women to have equal access to livelihoods opportunities and fair and just employment/income.
Honouring Karenni Women Leaders
Thramu Yumalay
We honoured two inspirational and highly committed Karenni refugee women leaders: 
Naw Dina, WSP Officer (right) and Saramoo Kumo (left)
- Thramu Yumalay, our Nursery School Coordinator in Karenni Site 2 for her 19 years of service and dedication to early learning and development of refugee children, and
- Saramoo Kumo, the Local Coordinator of the Women Study Program (WSP) in Karenni Site2 for her activism in advancing women's rights, she was with WSP since 2005.
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About WEAVE
WEAVE
Working with displaced women on the Thai-Burma, India-Burma and China-Burma borders.
WEAVE was founded in 1990, with the intent to empower indigenous women and support their needs and basic human rights.
WEAVE works to to build the capacity of displaced women in and outside of the refugee camps along the Thai-Burma, India-Burma and China-Burma borders, so that they are able to take responsibility for their own lives.
WEAVE has offices in Chiang Mai, Mae Sot and Mae Hong Son. Our projects are based in Karen and Karenni refugee camps along the Thai Burma border. We have recently extended our work to cover the Indo-Burmese border.
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