A Free Mind Cannot Be Destroyed
Drug and Alcohol Recovery and Education on the Thai/Myanmar Border
WHO WE ARE
DARE (Drug & Alcohol Recovery & Education) Network is a grassroots National NGO. DARE Network provides culturally appropriate non-medical treatment & prevention education to reduce substance abuse & associated social issues within the communities of displaced ethnic people from Burma, along the Thai/Burma border. DARE Network envisions the strength of ethnic people from Burma to use the power of recovery from addiction as a non-violent means to resist oppression.
A Free Mind Cannot Be Destroyed.
WHAT WE DO
We are there
Addiction Work for displaced people from Burma on the Thai/Burma Border? Who would come and help? Just one. That is why we built up DARE Network from within the refugee communities. People working for their own people.
We provide education
DARE Network Addiction Workers are highly trained local people offering addiction education to clients, families, schools, teachers, youth, local leadership and the general public.
We remove stigma
When people learn about addiction and help each other prevent it and treat it, then trust is built. Encouragement replaces stigma and success is celebrated.
We build community
The greatest experts are the ones with experience. No one person or group can solve a social problem alone. At DARE Network, the whole community gets involved. Everyone can learn and do something to reduce the harm of addiction in their community.
We succeed
DARE Network provides Prevention Education to over 30,000 people a year. We have treated nearly 6000 people for their addictions over 22 years with an on-going non-relapse success rate of 60%. This is double western rates. It works because of community.
We rely on culture
Our program has taken the best knowledge of East and West to provide a unique, culturally appropriate, yet replicable program for the Indigenous people of Burma.
Provide a helping hand
We can’t make it alone.
We need your support.
All help can bring a big change.
OUR PROJECTS
Prevention Education Reaching over 30,000 people per year
Non-medical, culturally appropriate Addiction Treatment in 5 DARE Network Centres on the Thai/Myanmar Border with over 6000 people already treated
Working with people of all abilities from all ethnicities, religions, races and genders
We need your help
Website maintenance, fundraising, social media, social enterprise support.
