GateWay Connection Project
The flagship project for GateWay Connection is its Skills Development and Education Project (SDEP) started in January 2006. This residential program provides under-privileged and chronically deprived Thai teenage girls-at-risk the opportunity of growing up in a stable loving healthy home environment with the chance to pursue an education in the mainstream Thai schools and tertiary institutions. The program aims to equip its participants with professional skills to enable them to obtain employment in positions of influence in the marketplace and positively impact lives in the communities both within Thailand and the countries in the Mekong region.
The GateWay Connection SDEP program is currently the only program in North Thailand that provides not just a refuge for the girls-at-risk, but also the education to overcome the poverty cycle and the professional skills to enable them to be leaders of influence to help develop their respective communities. In this program, education is treated as an investment with the impact on poverty reduction and enhancing the role of women in national development by equipping the girls with knowledge, attitudes and skills required for a modern society. The program takes in participants at the age of 12 and lasts at least 6-10 years for each participant.
The GateWay Connection SDEP program is currently the only program in North Thailand that provides not just a refuge for the girls-at-risk, but also the education to overcome the poverty cycle and the professional skills to enable them to be leaders of influence to help develop their respective communities. In this program, education is treated as an investment with the impact on poverty reduction and enhancing the role of women in national development by equipping the girls with knowledge, attitudes and skills required for a modern society. The program takes in participants at the age of 12 and lasts at least 6-10 years for each participant.