Aileen Rodriguez
Aileen Rodriguez has been undergoing home-based therapy since July 2009 up to the present under CBR programme in Eastern Samar, the Philippines. The village health worker, trained by Terre des Hommes Netherlands for rehabilitation skills, undergoes and supervises the therapy. Aileen and her parents were taught of the exercises she had to do every day. Slowly, her balance improved and from clutching onto the post for support so that she can be able to stand, she can now stand with the aid of a stick.
Thailand
Thailand, out of all the countries receiving Terre des Hommes Netherlands’ assistance, remains to be the most developed country and as such is phased with the problem of many illegal immigrants from neighbouring countries (Lao PDR, Myanmar and Cambodia). Many of them are willing to work illegally in any kind of business and especially young people are vulnerable to be trafficked/lured into forced labour and/or the sex trade. Secondly, the country is currently housing 112,000 registered refugees and approximately 50,000 unregistered, who fled the military junta, from neighbouring country Myanmar.
Overall, there are an estimated 3.5 million stateless people living in Thailand. It therefore must be noted that more than 50,000 of illegal Burmese immigrants and refugees are not detected and included in the published data for Thailand and that Terre des Hommes Netherlands is concentrating on these issues only.
