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PHAMIT activities primarily target migrants from the countries of Cambodia and Burma (Myanmar). Language barriers pose a major hurdle for these groups while they are in Thailand, limiting their ability to access information and services. As part of PHAMIT's outreach strategy, partner organizations produce and distribute IEC (Information, Education and Communication) and BCC (Behavior Change Communication) materials in the languages of migrant workers to support direct outreach activities and in order to transmit information to hard-to-reach groups. These materials provide targeted messages using images that reflect migrants' lifestyle and situation, and are written using wording that is easy to understand. |
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Materials cover a broad gamut of topics. Although the focus is on HIV/AIDS prevention, materials also provide information on reproductive and general health, family planning, how to utilize health insurance benefits, and rights. The variety of different ethnic languages spoken and written by groups from Burma, in addition to the mix of ethnic groups in one location (Cambodians and different groups from Burma can sometimes be found working in the same port area, for example), makes it impractical to rely on materials produced in only one language. This is one of the benefits of the PHAMIT Project. By having eight partner NGOs working in over twenty provinces, the production and dissemination of IEC/BCC materials in the language of migrants has been greatly scaled up, in part, facilitated by the ability of project sites to draw from a broad catalogue of materials produced at other sites. |
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