Thailand: Teaching trafficking

For many years, most of the students in the Ban Mae Chan secondary school in Chiang Rai province who completed grade 9 left to work as unskilled labourers; some of them ended up in the commercial sex industry or other hazardous and exploitative occupations, some became victims of human trafficking. The school typically has a little over 1,000 students from 12 villages each year, about 10 per cent of them from ethnic tribes. Concerned about the numbers of young people ending up in risky work, the Ban Mae Chan teachers became keen to address the trafficking problem on their own.