Building Skills and Resilience: Peoples’ Goal August Highlights
August 2025 has been a busy and inspiring month for Peoples’ Goal (PG). From practical livelihood trainings to promoting humanitarian principles, PG continued to walk alongside defectors, CDM members, activists, and displaced communities in their journey toward dignity and self-reliance.
Learning to Repair, Learning to Live
On August 2, PG’s Livelihood Training Program opened the doors to its Basic Home Appliance and Motor Repair Training at the Thailand–Myanmar border. For six weeks, participants will spend their mornings combining theory and hands-on practice, learning how to fix rice cookers, irons, fans, washing machines, and motors. The first batch of 10 trainees, including CDM soldiers, police officers, civil servants, and activists, began their journey to turn technical skills into a means of livelihood.
International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Training
A Call for Entrepreneurs
Throughout August, PG also invited applications for the Entrepreneurship Incubation Program. This online training gives CDM soldiers, police officers, and their families a chance to explore entrepreneurship and learn how to manage small businesses. Lasting up to six weeks, the program not only builds knowledge but also opens pathways for participants to start real businesses based on their own strengths and ideas.
Call for Traditional Karen Weaving and Handmade Embroidery Training
Peoples’ Goal Supports CDM Families in Magway
On August 10, 2025, Peoples’ Goal (PG) reached out with basic relief assistance to CDM soldiers and their families from the People’s Embrace Camp in Gangaw, Magway Region. August 10, 2025, Peoples’ Goal (PG) reached out with basic relief assistance to CDM soldiers and their families from the People’s Embrace Camp in Gangaw, Magway Region.
Life in the camps is marked by hardship and uncertainty. For many CDM members and their loved ones, even daily necessities are difficult to secure. PG’s support, even with limited resources, was offered as a reminder that their sacrifices have not been forgotten.
PG continues to provide such assistance whenever resources allow, based on available funds and the specific needs of communities across different regions. These acts of solidarity may seem small compared to the vast challenges of the Spring Revolution, but they carry weight. They symbolize respect, recognition, and encouragement for those who made the courageous decision to stand with the people.
Looking Forward
For Peoples’ Goal, August was a month of strengthening skills, rebuilding confidence, and nurturing resilience. From repairing motors and learning humanitarian law to exploring entrepreneurship, weaving traditional fabrics, and even receiving basic food support, each initiative offered hope and practical help to communities that have endured deep losses.
At every step, PG remains committed to upholding dignity, protecting humanity, and creating opportunities for those who need them most.
Basic Home Appliance and Motor Repair Training
A few days later, on August 7–8, PG, together with Principle of Humanity (PoH), organized a two-day International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Training in Aizawl, Mizoram State, India. The training welcomed 39 participants; CDM soldiers, police officers, PDF members, and their families. Discussions focused on the laws of war, battlefield ethics, and the protection of civilians. For PG, this is more than just training; it is a small but important step toward building a future Federal Army that respects humanitarian law and safeguards innocent lives.
Call for Entrepreneurship Incubation Program
Weaving Culture, Weaving Strength
Another highlight of the month was the call for applications for the Traditional Karen Weaving and Handmade Embroidery Training. Aimed at displaced women especially female CDM members, activists, and wives or daughters of injured revolutionaries, the 16-week course will teach weaving and embroidery until participants can create their own crafts independently. This training is both cultural preservation and livelihood opportunity, giving women a way to generate income while holding on to traditions.
Peoples’ Goal Supports CDM Families in Magway
This spirit of mutual care and support is what sustains the movement forward, giving strength to those on the frontlines and hope to families enduring the hardships of displacement.
