WEAVE Vision & Mission

WEAVE Vision, Mission and Goals

Weave News

A devastating fire displaces an already displaced population

Karenni Refugee Camp: Before the Fire

Fire at Umpiem Mai Refugee Camp

Heartbreak and Heroes: Fire at Karenni Refugee Camp, Thailand

Fire in Karenni Refugee Camp: Fatalities, Burns & Thousands Homeless

Photoblog: The challenges of everyday life for refugee women and children in Thailand

Grassroots Help for Women and Children Fleeing Burma

Weaving Handicrafts and Hope for Displaced Women from Burma

Making way for the future of Karenni refugee children

Refugee 'Women on the Bridges' Along the Thai-Burma Border for Women's Day

Empowering Refugees from Burma, through Education & Craftwork

Refugee Camps Flooded on Thai-Burma Border

Reports from the Burma border

Burma - Fleeing for Safety

Vision

Women's Education for Advancement and Empowerment (WEAVE) strives to create a world where empowered women and their children are free to exercise their rights and live peacefully in a just, humane and equitable society.

Mission

We are women and men of diverse ethnic and geographical backgrounds who are committed to gender equality. As individuals and as an organization, we are committed to working with marginalized, oppressed, poor and exploited women and children from Thailand, Burma and some regions in Asia.

We believe that the leadership of women and the development of their status benefits their communities.

We support the expansion of women's power, rights, and opportunities by sponsoring women's organizations in our target communities.

We strengthen the efforts of these organizations as they continually build the capacities of these women to become self-reliant enabling them to fully participate in the development of their communities.

Goals

• To strengthen the capacity of partner organizations to effectively and efficiently deliver desirable results.
• To enhance the development of self-managing and self-sustaining women’s organizations and community projects.
• To strengthen communication, research and development within WEAVE and amongst partner organizations.
• To advocate a development framework addressing issues of women and children.
• To promote collaboration and cooperation amongst and between organizations.