Cross Border Aid

Children on the Edge works through grassroots organisations based on the Burma border to provide; educational support, nutritional support and health care to internally displaced people in eastern and western Burma.

Rural villagers in eastern and western Burma are suffering abuses committed by soldiers and officials of Burma's ruling military junta. Despite this horrific situation these ethnic peoples are determined to see their children educated and for their people, language and traditions to survive for future generations.

There are few schools in these rural areas and those that exist often only have one allocated teacher sent from the military government. Children on the Edge supports border based partner organisations in their efforts to get educational supplies to these rural areas and provide a stipend for volunteer teachers. This ensures children are educated and also that local languages, traditions and religion are upheld.

Thousands of internally displaced people, who have been forced to leave their villages by the Burmese military, live in camps on the border just within Burma. Within these camps, families have no access to services and live in abject poverty. Through partner organisations Children on the Edge provides nutritional, health and educational support to children under five who live in these camps.

Also, through partner organisations Children on the Edge provides relief in humanitarian disasters such as the Chin food crisis in Western Burma and Cyclone Nargis, which devastated the Irrawaddy delta region on 2 May 2008.