Give poor village & migrant girls
and boys a second chance in life!
Empower impoverished youth
Be part of OpenmindProjects help to young learners to have a better future.
A Poverty Trap
Poor villages and parents so village and migrant children grow up poor and have very limited opportunities. Teenager students don’t know what it means to have a dream, much less how to realize it!
A second chance!
Give these students a chance to learn, to help them to better job opportunities.
Encourage and empower students to take charge of their own learning and become the architects of their own futures!
How to use IT, internet, innovative learning ideas, and English to help young people get out of their poverty.
How to teach studenst to speak English, to use their smartphones, computers and the internet, and learn about important life skills?
Give young but underprivileged students a second chance
We want students to learn how to help themselves, ‘learn by doing’, our task and activity- based learning way. We prefer ‘Learning By Doing’ to learning by heart.
We use EdTech, IT, modern, innovative learning ideas and overseas volunteers to create inspiration, knowledge and skills. Students can multi-learn in activity-based learning when they are given concrete tasks and problems to solve. Learn to search for information online in English, analyze and solve problems, discuss, and debate solutions. Share findings with others in presentations, videos and online.
Gain confidence, inspiration, critical and independent thinking skills together.
Learn about problems like the environment, climate change, health, hygiene and food. Learn about and prepare for future jobs.
If we create learners and empower young villagers and migrants to help themselves then young people can become role models for other young people, and help their poor parents too.
We create learners!
With very limited means, we have trained over 400 young trainees over the past 19 years.
We have run over 60 learning camps with over 2000 campers. They have learned and gained confidence to speak English, to use technology and the internet to learn, and to want to go on to learn!
Some stay on as trainers. Some go on to study. Some find a better job. Some go back to help in their villages.
Success Stories
When they were 15 years old, they volunteered to help children in their own community. Kem and Dee then came to Openmind Projects to learn English, IT and life skills. Later they realized that they can use media to help other people.
Right now they're working with an international NGO in Laos and have started their own media company.
Kem and Dee are also our Laos representatives and lead OMP trainees at alumni meetings.
Currently, Trang owns a computer and smartphone repair shop in Bangkok, and voluntarily repairs our computers.
She's proved that with hard work and by learning IT skills, she can get a good job without the need of university degree.
