Final Fundraising Weekend Our International Women’s Day (IWD) Exhibition so far has been one of the least visited art shows at Borderline. A late announcement and perhaps no sufficient promotion means we can literally count the visitors on one hand. So we try to go out with a bang. Coming weekend we will have two …
Our latest job description read like this: “Your duties are the same as the rest of the staff”. Instead of 4 pages of all the small duties a prospected employee is expected to perform to avoid a potential future argument whether a required task was part of the job description, new staff is required to …
With support from VSO and the skills of Bordermedia, wo got ourselves a beautiful website around the middle of 2008. At around the same time the world started to get attached to facebook and instead of using our website to communicate, we posted more on facebook than we did at our website. It is similar …
It is hard to decide whether Mae Sot is getting busier or not. At Borderline we have welcomed old friends who have returned after a period in exile. Several years ago, a part of the Mae Sot community decided they could be of more use for Burma if they lived in Yangon and slowly we …
The Mae Sot entry in the 1999 Lonely Planet reads as if Prince’s Party did result in Y2K really being the end of an era. None of the Guest Houses mentioned exist anymore and if you look for the places to eat, you will go around hungry, they have stopped serving. There is mentioning of …
Several months ago we met In at one of his Coffee In Camp settings and later we invited him to do a small one at Borderline, which was a large success. And now the local authorities together with In have organised Season Of Coffee and this time Borderline has been invited to show our products …