A student-led initiative · Bangkok

Nobody drops out all at once.

A child's education is one line that runs from four years old to a first paycheck. It breaks at three predictable points — and at each one, we're standing there.

Ages 4–11

Somewhere to learn

The break: there is nowhere to study, so the basics never form. See the programs → Ages 12–17

Something to learn with

The break: the lesson stops being reachable — especially if you cannot see it. See the programs → Ages 18–22

Somewhere to go next

The break: they stop believing anyone will ever hire them. See the programs →
Where the line held

Numbers we can point at.

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Students reached
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Micro schools built
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Libraries built
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Audiobooks recorded
3
Cafés partnered
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Youth placed in work
Milestones and full impact
The founder

"I kept meeting kids who had already decided the story was over. Almost none of them had run out of ability. They had run out of places to keep going."

Founder Name
Founder & President · RIS D&D Committee

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Working alongside us

Partners

None of the three stages works without organizations willing to open a door — a classroom, a recording studio, a counter behind a café.

All partners

Pick a point on the line and hold it.

A classroom, a recording, a tutor, a café willing to interview one person. Every contribution lands at a specific age, for a specific kid.

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The line Who we are

Keep the line unbroken.

The Education–Work Bridge is a student-led initiative that keeps at-risk and out-of-school youth connected to learning, support, and real opportunity — from the first classroom to the first paycheck.

We are students, working through our school's D&D Committee in Bangkok. That shapes what we do: we are close in age to the people we work with, we can only build things we can keep showing up for, and we would rather do three things properly than ten things once.

So we picked the three ages where a student is most likely to disappear from school, and we put something real at each one. That is the whole strategy. Everything on this site is one of those three points, or the money and hands that keep them staffed.

What we believe

Go where the line breaks

We don't spread ourselves evenly across every age. We stand at the three points where students are most likely to vanish, because that's where the same effort saves the most futures.

Build things that outlast us

A library still lending books after we've gone is worth more than a week of visits. We favour buildings, recordings, and systems over events.

Belief is infrastructure too

For older students the missing piece often isn't a lesson — it's one person willing to say yes. We treat that as something to build, not something to hope for.

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The line Who we are

Chapters

Student-led chapters in four countries, each holding the line where they live.

Bangkok, Thailand

Founding chapter · Lead: Name

Where the line started: micro schools, audiobook recording, and the Dot Coffee Project.

City, Country

Since 20XX · Lead: Name

One line on what this chapter runs and who it reaches.

City, Country

Since 20XX · Lead: Name

One line on what this chapter runs and who it reaches.

City, Country

Since 20XX · Lead: Name

One line on what this chapter runs and who it reaches.

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Partners

None of the three stages works without organizations willing to open a door — a classroom, a recording studio, a counter behind a café.

Save the Children Thailand

Accessible education and employment seminars.

Ages 12–17 & 18–22

Uniqlo

Employment pathways for out-of-school youth.

Ages 18–22

Café partners

Three cafés hiring through the Dot Coffee Project.

Ages 18–22

Libraries & municipal partners

The community sites our builds live in.

Ages 4–11

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Which stage they support

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Which stage they support
Work with us

If your organization can offer a classroom, a recording, a seminar, or an interview, that is exactly what we need. One open door reaches further than a donation of the same size.

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The line Impact

What held, and when.

We track two things: how many students stayed connected to learning, and what we actually finished building. Both are below.

The numbers
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Students reached
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Micro schools built
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Libraries built
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Audiobooks recorded
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Tutoring hours delivered
3
Cafés partnered
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Youth placed in work
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Employers at our job fairs

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Milestones

How the line got built.

Each milestone is colour-coded to the stage it belongs to. Edit the years and details to match your own record — these are placeholders.

  1. Year

    The committee starts

    A group of students decides that dropout prevention needs to happen at more than one age, and splits the work into three stages.

    Founding
  2. Year

    First tutoring sessions run

    Peer tutors begin weekly sessions with students who are falling behind — the first program to reach students directly.

    Ages 12–17
  3. Year

    First library built

    A community library opens and is stocked, giving younger children somewhere to study outside school hours — and somewhere that stays open after we leave.

    Ages 4–11
  4. Year

    Partnership with Save the Children Thailand

    The partnership opens accessible education work for blind and visually impaired students, and later the employment seminars.

    Partnership
  5. Year

    Audiobook recording begins

    Textbooks and readers start being recorded so blind students can keep pace with their class instead of falling silently behind it.

    Ages 12–17
  6. Year

    First employment seminar

    With Save the Children Thailand, older students learn how to apply, interview, and ask for a fair wage — many for the first time in their lives.

    Ages 18–22
  7. Year

    First job fair

    Employers meet students who assumed no employer wanted them — the first time the work moved from education to employment.

    Ages 18–22
  8. Year

    Dot Coffee Project — three cafés sign on

    After a run of conversations with blind students and with café owners, three cafés agree to hire and train through the project.

    Ages 18–22
  9. Year

    First shift behind the counter

    A blind student trained through the Dot Coffee Project works a first paid shift at a partner café — the whole line, held from start to finish.

    Ages 18–22
  10. Next

    Micro school building

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The line
Ages 4–11

Somewhere to learn

Stage 01 · PreK to Elementary

The youngest children don't leave school because it got hard. They leave because there was never a place to sit down and learn.

Without a room, a desk, and someone nearby, the basics never form. A child who arrives at middle school without them has already been pushed out — years before anyone records it as a dropout.

Where the line breaks

They drop out before they ever get to dream about what comes next.

The programs
Program

Micro School Building

We build small, permanent classrooms in communities where the nearest school is too far for a six-year-old to reach — a room, a roof, and a place a teacher can actually teach in.

Micro School Link
Location — village, district, province
Location — village, district, province
Location — village, district, province
Program

Library Building

We build and stock libraries that stay open long after we leave, so studying isn't something that only happens inside school hours — and so a child has somewhere to go that expects them to read.

Library Link
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Ages 12–17

Something to learn with

Stage 02 · Middle to High School

By middle school the question isn't whether a student wants to learn. It's whether the lesson is reachable at all.

A blind student handed a printed textbook is not being taught. A student who missed the thread two chapters ago and has no one to ask is not being taught either. Both of them stop showing up — and both of them are recorded as choices.

Where the line breaks

Falling behind quietly is how almost every dropout actually begins.

The programs
Program

Audiobook Recording

We record textbooks and readers as audiobooks so blind and visually impaired students can keep pace with their class instead of falling silently behind it.

Audiobook Link
Program

Tutoring Program

Trained student tutors work week after week with the kids who are slipping — close enough in age to be asked the question they'd never raise their hand for.

Tutoring Link
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Ages 18–22

Somewhere to go next

Stage 03 · High School to Work

Here the barrier stops being education and becomes belief. Students don't leave because they can't learn. They leave because they're certain no one will hire them.

So the work changes shape too. At this stage we stop bringing lessons to students and start bringing employers to them — because the fastest way to end that certainty is to put a person across the table who says yes.

Where the line breaks

Not a lack of ability — a lack of anyone willing to prove them wrong.

The pipeline

How one job actually happens.

Nobody gets hired because of a single event. It takes a conversation that changes an employer's mind, then training, then preparation, then a real first shift. Here is that sequence, in order.

  1. The conversation · Dot Coffee Project

    Convincing employers to say yes

    Blind students are told what they can't do more often than anyone — and the people doing the hiring have usually never been asked. We sit down with café owners, answer the doubts out loud, and keep going back until the answer changes. Three cafés have signed on so far.

  2. Preparation

    Training before the first shift

    An employer saying yes is only worth something if the student walks in ready. Before anyone starts, they learn the job itself — the machine, the counter, the till, the route from door to station — until the work is muscle memory instead of a test.

  3. With Save the Children Thailand

    Employment seminars

    Run alongside Save the Children Thailand: how to apply, how to interview, and how to ask for what you're worth when you're entering work without a single contact to call on.

  4. Making the introduction

    Job fair

    We put employers in the same room as students who assume nobody wants them — no application form, no gatekeeping, just the two people who need to meet, meeting. It is the shortest distance between a doubt and a job offer.

  5. The point of all of it

    Into real work

    This is the whole reason for everything above: a real shift, a real wage, and a reason to stay connected to learning — for a student who was certain none of it was available to them.

    3Cafés partnered
    —Youth placed in work
    —Employers at our job fairs
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