Schooling for poor kids thanks to Bt10 from Chiang Mai residents

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Schooling for poor kids thanks to Bt10 from Chiang Mai residents

By CHULARAT SAENGPASSA 
THE NATION

 

EEF president Prasarn Trairatvorakul

 

THE EQUITABLE Education Fund (EEF) is now exploring ideas on how best to engage all sectors in extending educational help to underprivileged children.

 

At its public forum in Chiang Mai yesterday, local leader Phairat Maichompoo presented the Bt10 Chiang Mai Fund as a model.

 

Established in 2017, this fund started with a Bt10 donation from every willing Chiang Mai resident for the purpose of preventing cash-strapped children from dropping out of school. 

 

 

“Within one month, donations reached Bt2.7 million. So, we could help as many as 230 children,” said Phairat, who is now the vice president of the Chiang Mai Provincial Administrative Organisation and secretary for the Chiang Mai Network for Education Reform. 

 

 He said the fund granted scholarships on the basis of children’s character, motivation and patience. Each scholarship recipient received between Bt5,000 and Bt30,000. 

 

“Our fund proved a success. So, I think we will be able to reduce educational gaps in the country if there are similar funds in other areas too,” Phairat said. 

 

EEF president Prasarn Trairatvorakul praised the Bt10 Chiang Mai Fund as a good model, emphasising that it showed that people could contribute to the cause instead of waiting for help from the government alone. 

 

“We hope to promote the model across the country,” Prasarn said. According to the EEF, 620,000 children in Thailand are from very poor families. 

 

The Chiang Mai forum is the first of four events the EEF has planned to brainstorm ideas from various sectors. 

 

The second forum will take place on August 21 in the Northeast province of Surin, the third on August 22 in the southern province of Surat Thani and the last in Bangkok next month. “We also welcome opinions via www.eef.or.th,” Prasarn added. 

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30352237

 

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[mok199]

set up for the purpose of helping cash strapped children from dropping out of school ..an excellent idea in theory ,but is much more complicated than money....every child is entitled to an education,saddly corrutption will soom find its way into this effort too...

Edited August 15, 2018 by mok199
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[Lupatria]

Don't give 'em any money. After all they come up with the weird idea to buy submarines and satellites to play with.

[jippytum]

A worthy cause that would have more donations if not for the documented never ending corruption ranging from school meals to watered down school milk and bribes to teachers .

[Vacuum]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

“Within one month, donations reached Bt2.7 million. So, we could help as many as 230 children,” said Phairat,

He should be happy with that result, but.....

 

[RT555]

That should buy some backpacks, pencils and some overpriced rice from Uncle. The rest will disappear..... Into the COFFERS... 

[Sir Dude]

3 hours ago, Vacuum said:

He should be happy with that result, but.....

 

 

Yeah, he looks like an optimistic barrel of laughs.

 

[AsiaHand]

5 hours ago, Lupatria said:

Don't give 'em any money. After all they come up with the weird idea to buy submarines and satellites to play with.

Here is a fact: An abandon child is brought to a school that has a set up to keep them on the school grounds,Then the school will be paid a sum to school and house them.As they grow they are expected to clean up the school grounds after the other kids with parents go home at night.When they are teens they are encourage to "Borrow or get a loan" from the government to help pay for their schooling with the total running about 12,000 baht when they have reached the age of 15.Normally every year in January married couples will come to the school to adopt kids from 5 years old and up absorbing the government loan owed up to that time.After the age of "15" they are let out of the school and most going to work in government owned jobs or hospitals until the dept is paid.After that who knows. Many just  ."fill in your own thoughts"

[Redline]

Isn't this a threat?