Dare Network
Address : 95/3 Mae Sariang-Mae Sot Road, Village No. 5,
Mae Sariang District, Mae Hong Son 58110
Tel : +66 (0) 5362 1050
Email : drugfree@darenetwork.com
Website : www.darenetwork.com
Chairperson: Dr. Jaroon Jittiwutikarn MD.
Drungfree Director: Ms. Pam Rogers
Ruammit Foundation for Youth and Children
Drug & Alcohol Recovery & Education Network
RUAMMIT-DARE
DARE Network is a grassroots national NGO. DARE Network provides culturally appropriate non-medical treatment and prevention education to reduce substance abuse and associated societal problems within the communities of the displaced ethnic people from Burma, along the Thai-Burma border.
Name of Organization : RUAM MIT Foundation for Youth and Children
Year Started Working with Displaced Burmese : 2000
Sector(s) of Work : Community-based Addiction Services
Work Locations with Displaced Burmese :
Mae Hong Son Province: Mae Ra Oon, Mae Ra Ma Luang
Tak Province: Mae Sot, Maela, Umpium Mai , Nupoe and 8 Thai Villages in Phob Pha district
Funding Sources :Global Giving, Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund, Refugees International Japan, Thai Oilman’s Charity, Friends of DARE Network, Private Donations.
Ruammit Foundation for Youth and Children DARE Network, a grassroots local organization is community based, built by its own communities to serve the addiction needs of the people. Ruammit DARE is in a unique position to meet these needs as it is the only organization providing comprehensive addiction services to the displaced people of Burma on the Thai/Burma border. Although supported by International Donors, Ruammit DARE is operated by local people.
Our priorities to strengthen communities, change attitudes and beliefs through education and to create a cohesive and wide-spread, accessible challenge to addiction throughout the displaced communities from Burma represents a way in which these diverse groups can work together to build healthy communities in mind, body and spirit.
