Started from January 2006, Drop-in Center will be called as Women's Empowerment and Resource Center. The center has been running as a sanctuary for migrant women in Mae Sod for the past 3 years and provides a space where they can learn from each other, exchange their concerns and opinions, as well as relax and enjoy some "me" time. Various women empowerment and community development activities using this space and it has been an important resource and learning place for women from various migrant worker communities to get together to share experiences, take part in discussions and exchange information and opinions. Each month discussions are held and topics chosen by the staff and participants with the focus on women issues, health education and other areas of their interest and concern.  The center provides much needed assistance and services since these women can hardly find access to such needs and resources in their most vulnerable situation as undocumented migrant laborers.

The center also acts as emergency temporary shelter for those who are in transition or in crisis situations, as well as safe retreat place for those who need rest from long-hours hard manual labor work on their day-offs. BWU help those cases need further assistance that are beyond BWU’s capacity such as long term shelter, medical treatment and legal assistance by recommending and contacting its network groups in the area that can provide such services. The center also accommodates training, discussions and workshops on women empowerment issues for these women and provides counseling, laundry facilities and reading materials for knowledge building and access to information. Topics and issues for empowerment range from migrant workers' rights, women's rights, human rights, child rights, reproductive health, and violence against women to peace building, conflict transformation, non-violence for social change, and community organizing.

The center also provides sewing training as when women from Burma cross the border into Thailand many of them lack the skills to get "better-paid" jobs and can't afford to pay to learn those much needed skills in order to get factory jobs that are mainly available for women. Many of these women work long-hours everyday and find themselves with very little free time to invest for education since they are caught up with household and parental chores. They find no time to read or study.

Currently seven staffs run the center operations: One coordinator, one counselor, one health educator, two women empowerment trainers, one sewing trainer, and one staff. When it was opened in 2004, about 700 women from 13 factories used the drop-in center facilities and participated in monthly discussions and workshops. In 2005, total 992 women from 32 factories have used the Drop-in Center facilities.

The center is open 5 days a week from Wednesday to Sunday and offers facilities to assist the migrant women with sewing training and laundry service where they can save time and invest on reading and/or watching educational and documentary videos, while doing their laundry at the center.

The counseling and health education sessions are offered during the week as well as on the need basis. The coordinator and staff manage the schedule of the drop-in center whereas trainers organizes workshops that range from 2-3 hours to one-day long as these women can hardly take time for such gathering. The center will hold discussions on issues as migrant workers rights, women's rights and gender equality, human rights, child rights, peace building, conflict transformation, non-violence for social change, health information and community organizing to build their capacity.

The staff collects and maintains video documentaries and movies to use as resource materials for group discussions. It will open a space for these women to use as a forum where they can learn from each other, exchange their opinions and concerns and raise their voices, as well as for a recreation where they can take some peaceful time for themselves. In addition, the center will also provide sanctuary for those women who face crisis situation and need a temporary refuge. Two trainers and one counselor who have been trained in feminist counseling and conflict transformation will be on full-time duty to assist these women in need of emergency help.

Sewing training is offered to 3 women at one time for the period of 3-5 days learning and practicing, depending on their prior knowledge and experience, and total of 12 women in a month will be trained how to use the motor sewing machines.