Children in many countries are born into a world that increasingly doesn't welcome them.  Many infants, boys, and girls lose their lives or parents at an earlier and earlier age -- to poverty, wars, natural disasters, or domestic tragedies.  Society seemingly can't wait for the present generation of youth to grow into adulthood before it sacrifices entire communities upon the altars of imperialism or corporate wage slavery; witness the growing number of child warriors in various countries where ethnic groups are fighting for their very existence.  These children have been given no choice -- it's either fight back or die.  Equipping children with the mental tools to create their own alternatives to this reality is one of the most important tasks facing honest educators today.  While the developed world indoctrinates its youth into becoming unintelligent consumers of garbage culture and prepares them to become wage slaves for the rest of their lives, the developing world still has a chance to educate and 'empower its youth' and create a different future than the one planned for them by the world's modern rulers.

'HTF Home School' aims to help Burmese children in Thailand to gain a true understanding of their life situation -- one free of indoctrination and social engineering.  This means introducing isolated communities of children -- such as homeless street children, the youth in small orphanages, or other similar groups -- to a 'helping hand' from a non-governmental organization devoted to meeting their basic needs and to equipping them with survival skills through non-formal education. 

Burmese disadvantaged children face their own unique challenges.  In some ways, they are better off than their counterparts in the West.  At least, they've not been part of a system that wants to socially engineer them to fit into a world that values money over human life.  Instead, they're dealing with the toxic effects of the West's economic exploitation of the rest of the world, and particularly, the developing world.  Burmese children living on the streets, of course, are not concerned with such ideological discourse -- teachers and managers of the educational system disagreeing amongst themselves about how to 'engineer' the future workers of the world.

HTF Home School's solution, of sorts, to these problems is to turn back the hands of the clock and return to home-schooling.  This is the style of education used in the U.S.A. before the modern system of education was established.  Read here for the hidden history of American education.  We take inspiration from the home-schooling movement that still thrives across America, and especially, from the Fellowship of Intentional Community.  This organization makes it possible to network and link with communities of people still working on rejecting indoctrination into a corporate world of fascist control over people's lives.  The developing world can learn to face this challenge and set it back on its heels.  This is the true task of any would be educator working with children in the third world.

HTF Home School's educational philosophy is based upon the following readings.  If you'd like to work with us as a volunteer teacher, these articles are  MUST read: