"...In 1996, MAP started as a CBO called the “Migrant Assistance Program” to respond to the needs of migrant workers from Burma in Thailand. The first beneficiaries were primarily of Shan ethnicity, who were fleeing the Burmese military but were not recognized with refugee protection status and who were prominent in Chiang Mai. In 2002, MAP registered as a non-profit Thai Foundation under the Thai name, “Foundation for the Health and Knowledge of Ethnic Labour”and the English name MAP Foundation (MAP).MAP now has offices, community radio stations and direct interventions in Chiang Mai and Mae Sot (Tak Province). Through linkages and networks, MAP also provides support for migrant workers’ groups and migrant women's groups along the Thai-Burma border, including a focus on Mae Sai (Chiang Rai Province) and networks in Bangkok and the South. Most recently, MAP has extended its linkages into Shan State in Myanmar through a project on Safe Migration. MAP’s vision is: Migrant workers will have full access toinformation during the whole migration process and will be able to access services and exercise their rights fully without discrimination. In addition, MAP works towards the goal that people from Burma (Myanmar) will be able to make informed, free choicesabout staying or migrating. MAP's goals are to empower migrant workers from Burma and their communities to take action to claim their rights, in part by ensuring that migrants have full access to up to date information on rights, policies and laws in their own language; and to eliminate discrimination against migrant workers, especially women and families, so that they can receive their full labour rights, are healthy, their children go to school, and they are able to integrate into Thai society.MAP Foundation achieves its goals through activities under its four programs: Labour Rights for All (LRA), Rights for All (RFA), Community Health and Empowerment (CHE), and MAP MultiMedia (MMM). Each program has a number of projects which accomplish the broader goals of the program. MAP provides outreach activities to migrant workers and their communities in migrant languages. Capacity building activities reach out to groups of specific focus issues, such as women migrants, domestic workers, HIV+ migrants, and migrant labour leaders..."