The principle and vision of PVA (1)

More and more people from Burma are pouring into the neighboring countries to look for jobs, and more than a million people are already in Thailand. Through out the history of Burma, no one from Burma ever was coming into Thailand looking for a job like this. Now they are everywhere in Thailand working at the factories, workships, shops, landscape, farming, and domestic work etc without any proper legal documents.

Among these Burmese migrant workers the social injustices like the unfair treatments by the employers, the lawlessness by both Thai and each others, exploitations and intimidations have been going on in their daily lives. Practically, it’s almost impossible to solve these problems individually. Being living in the alien land, most of them have face the obstacle such as the language barrier, the lack of understanding of the existing laws, the fear of confronting the authorities, and the feeling of the lack of personal security daily.

Therefore, the knowledgeable individuals and organizations are required to help solving their injustices and obstacles in their daily lives. Many Burmese organizations like the lawyer’s group helping the Burmese migrant workers, the women organization assisting the women and children, the legal groups helping the migrant workers for their legal problems and the health groups helping the migrant workers for their medical needs have emerged nowadays. All of these organizations are helping the migrant workers based on the pacific size and scope of the individual organization. Some of the organizations have been formed for more than a decade and the others also have four to five years experience in this regard. The question whether the help of these organizations satisfies the needs of the migrant workers ought to be answered. If the answer is yes then, it’s not necessary for us to from PVA in the first place.

Still, the issues such cheating, lying, framing, atrocity, extortion by the backing of the authority, family problem, drugs and alcohol related problem, sick and death issue, emergency help among the migrant workers have demanded the solutions daily. None of the above organizations could solve this entire problem all together. They might as well have to deny assisting the needs beyond their pacific issues.

No one/organization comes up and stands up to solve all the problems of our Burmese migrant workers regardless. The situations demand an organization to defend our people. And, that’s the reason for us to form PVA. People must know that they have the organization named PVA to depend on no matter what.

PVA has been formed by the people with the goodwill.

PVA has been formed to fulfill the needs of the people.

PVA has been always ready to help the people at anytime

Thein San

Central Committee Member (1)

PVA