One Sky was conceived in 2012 in the Thai-Burma border town of Sankhlaburi, and became a fully registered Thai NGO in June 2013. The founders, Wiwat Thanapanya and Andy Lillicrap, saw a huge gap in essential services for large numbers of vulnerable children and their families. One Sky was created to bring change to services available to vulnerable children in Sangkhlaburi, by promoting a new way of working to support them. They aim to promote professionalism, uphold the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), encourage new ideas and connect Sangkhlaburi to a global movement of organisations working to build good practice in assisting vulnerable children. Most importantly, they strive to support children and their families in a way that helps them to stay together, enabling children to be protected inside a stable, loving family unit and within a strong, empowered community, instead of in institutions.
One Sky is a member of the Convention on the Rights of the Child Coalition for Thailand.
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93/1 Moo. 3, Nonglu
Sangkhlaburi
Kanchanaburi 71240
Thailand
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What They Do
One Sky is a Thai Foundation working to meet the needs of vulnerable children in the Thai-Burma border district of Sangkhlaburi. One Sky aims to keep families together by providing a range of comprehensive services to vulnerable children and their families in child protection, education and health care support, alternative care, and income generation. One Sky's services are centered around several areas of work including:
- Child Protection: Tackles risks faced by children in Sangkhlaburi, focused on two key areas: immediate protection, risk reduction
- Education Support: Tackles barriers that stop children in Sangkhlaburi from attending school, focused on: facilitating education enrollment, minimising dropout, and widening access to education for children in remote areas
- Healthcare Support: Helps to support sick children in Sangkhlaburi, focused on: ensuring access to quality medical care and preventing future ill health by tackling root causes of disease
- Alternative Care: Helps to prevent family separation, instead promoting family and community based solutions for children who are unable to live with their parents.
- Income Generation: Provides opportunities for struggling families to earn a reliable income. One Sky operates a broom-making business, providing safe employment for vulnerable families.