Education grants · Thailand
€100,000 grants for education in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Hill-tribe and rural communities where many children — especially girls — leave school before secondary level.
Context
Northern Thailand is home to several hill-tribe communities — Karen, Akha, Hmong, Lisu, Lahu — and to a significant stateless population. For these children, education is officially universal but practically gated: by documentation, language, distance, and family economics. Many girls leave school by lower secondary, either for early marriage or to work.
Chiang Mai city sits at the centre of a network of village schools and small NGOs that have worked on this for decades, often quietly and with limited budgets. They know what works in their valleys: girls' boarding houses, stipends that match a family's lost income from a working teenager, and patient documentation help for stateless children.
The Foundation is interested in organisations with a track record longer than a project cycle — the local ones, run by people who live in the region.
Funding priorities
What we'd fund in Thailand.
A non-exhaustive list. Bring us what your community needs and we will read the application carefully.
- Girls' boarding and stipends to enable lower- and upper-secondary completion.
- Documentation support for stateless and unregistered children.
- Bilingual or culturally specific learning materials for hill-tribe languages.
- Vocational pathways for older students who would otherwise leave school for work.
Eligibility
We fund registered organisations only — NGOs, schools, and social enterprises — whose work is education-focused, broadly defined, and whose project operates in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Applicants need to be able to submit a short monthly progress report in English or French. We do not fund religious instruction, political campaigning, or for-profit ventures.
Apply when the first round opens.
Applications open in early 2027. Read the full criteria and join the waitlist now — we will email you the day applications open with a direct link to the form.
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