"...The Women Exchange (WE) is a MAPFoundation project based out of Chiang Mai, Thailand, with programming that supports migrant and refugee women throughout the country. The WE projectis supported by Foundation for a Just Society (FJS), Asia Pacific Forum on Women Law and Development (APWLD), and Asian-Pacific Resource and Research for Women (ARROW)...Since 1999, MAP Foundation has supported migrant and refugee women in coming together once a month to challenge the isolation imposed upon them as “aliens” in a foreign country, in addition to social norms that consider women second to men with limited rights. Begun in Chiang Mai, these women-only spaces became very popular and were replicated along the Thai-Myanmar border. Today, migrant and refugee women from Myanmar of different ethnicity, ages, and occupations meet monthly in the following 18 areas..."