Non Government Organizations such as HWF support these schools financially and supply them with vital information regarding hygiene, nourishment, basic medical knowledge in addition to basic education. They educate the teachers and oversee the children in an effort to have their attendance at school rather than being exploited in the adult world as laborers. Only when the children's school attendance doesn't become an additional burden on the family is it at all possible.

Due to the positive but young political movement in the present, many organizations and financial supporters have begun to invest directly in Myanmar.  Others have been forced to reduce or discontinue their support due to the world financial crisis.

In spite of the improved conditions in Myanmar at the present, it is impossible for the former refugees to return to their native land. Myanmar is on a positive way but lacks the necessary infrastructure and basic living conditions.

For this reason the families and especially the children remaining in Thailand are more destitute than ever! Many schools on the border have been closed and many former school children, having lost their status as students, stand before the threat of abandonment, black work in the fields or destitution on the streets with no hope for a future.

HWF is one of the few organizations remaining on the border of Thailand.  These few remaining organizations in the region are trying to save 13 schools with a total of 2’850 children by extra funding in an emergency program requiring CHF 425’000 (US$ 427’800) annually. In June 2017 two further major donors of HWF will withdraw their financial support of 5 newly HWF standardised schools (meaning transparency and exclusion of double funding). The financial deficit for the schools with 1’370 students is CHF 107’000 annually.

An average school with 300 children costs approximately CHF 42’000 annually. Each child costs annually CHF 140.- excluding food and CHF 310.- including food.