Every year we take foreigners to our Kaw Tha Blay
Hostel in the Refugee Camp to spend the day. Before they leave everyone gathers in the boys' study/eating hall
where the visitors are asked to deliver an 'encouraging'
speech. Many of the foreigners are moved to tears as they look out on this sea of hopeful girls and boys. Often these friends would love to stay and work with our students and our students long to learn from them. Unfortunately, foreigners are not allowed overnight in the camps or even to visit. We have found ways around this - one is to bring the visitors in ourselves with our truck, and sometimes using the truck take students out to the college in the north and even occasionally to Mae Sot. But this is not always easy.

Recently we found land in the Thai/Karen village, Doh
Tah, between the Refugee Camp and the College. Our plan is to build a bamboo/leaf dormitory and a small $3,000 home/school where the students can go to take special courses that foreigners might offer (eg. English, human rights, computer skills and healthcare, carpentry etc.). We hope to do this by September. The village has electricity, water and telephone so our students would have access to the internet for the first time! This satellite of both the college and the hostel could also serve as a safe house should there be an attack.