Pawn Hub! Father fails to sell washing machine to help pay for son's education

[webfact]

Daily News Thai Caption: I'd like to pawn this

 

Daily News went to a government pawn shop run by the municipality in Sisaket in Thailand's north east.

 

Yesterday was the start of term and the facility had arranged for 120 million baht in funds to be available as they were expecting many parents desperate for cash.

 

They were not disappointed. Large numbers of parents turned up to pawn jewelry and electrical appliances in particular.

 

Manager Sawat Thaomai took the press to see a storeroom where the pawned items are categorized and kept after they have been examined and deemed suitable for pawning.

 

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He said 80% of pawned items were gold jewelry like necklaces. 

 

The facility has a promotion for May and June offering monthly interest rates as low as .25% on small deals and 1% on items over 5,000 baht in value. 

 

But one father named only as "A" was to be disappointed.

 

He needed some money to pay for his son's university education in Ubon Ratchathani and hoped to get 2,500 baht for a washing machine.

 

But on inspection it was found to be faulty so he had to take it back and find some other way to raise the money. 

 

Many Thais pawn items at the start of term making the country something of a Pawn Hub, notes ASEAN NOW. 

 

 

 

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[RafPinto]

Pity to see that people have to sell their belongings to send kids to school when others throw money around, buying new submarines (with no engines).

[tomazbodner]

if someone knows this guy's promptpay...

[rbkk]

 

1 hour ago, tomazbodner said:

if someone knows this guy's promptpay...

I think you should share this story/posts on srisaket social media. The pickup truck has an easily recognisable sticker on the rear side.

[The Hammer2021]

Why is such a tragic story treated as a joke. Its disgusting

[rbkk]

11 minutes ago, The Hammer2021 said:

Why is such a tragic story treated as a joke. Its disgusting

Who is your comment directed at? 

[chuang]

16 hours ago, rbkk said:

Who is your comment directed at? 

The comment is directed at those who treated it s  joke......

[rbkk]

1 minute ago, chuang said:

The comment is directed at those who treated it s  joke......

I didn't read anything (As a joke) that way. A poster offered to help the father from Srisaket and I gave some advise on how to potentially get in contact with the father. I don't get the joke (?) I live in Surin provence and have the social media info for this provence. It is different for the next provence over.  

[bbko]

9 minutes ago, rbkk said:

I didn't read anything (As a joke) that way. A poster offered to help the father from Srisaket and I gave some advise on how to potentially get in contact with the father. I don't get the joke (?) I live in Surin provence and have the social media info for this provence. It is different for the next provence over.  

I'm guessing the flippant remark about submarines is the one.

Times are hard nowadays, and to see a father struggling to pay for his son's schooling is a tug on the heart strings.  I hope things work out for them.

[Henryford]

A university education for 2,500 baht, that's a bargain.

[JeffersLos]

15 minutes ago, Henryford said:

A university education for 2,500 baht, that's a bargain.

You get what you pay for.

[JeffersLos]

A horrid existence most of us will luckily never experience. 

[tomazbodner]

1 hour ago, rbkk said:

 

I think you should share this story/posts on srisaket social media. The pickup truck has an easily recognisable sticker on the rear side.

I don't know anyone there but feel very bad for situation he is in, and wish to help. Was it not just yesterday that a 14 year old girl committed suicide for being expelled from school as tuition wasn't paid for her?

 

If someone wishes to learn, every effort should be taken to make that possible for them. And for this father, that 2500 likely wasn't the entire amount, but what was the gap to pay the tuition.

 

I support many with micro-loans via kiva.org for this exact cause. But while it's very active in neighbouring countries and elsewhere, local organisations are nearly invisible in the platform. The other way trying to support kids is through Worldvision, but there it's specific kids being supported through education. Doesn't cover cases like this family.

 

Overall a sad situation and a gaping hole in government policies, if they were serious about the Thailand 4.0. I'd say something more, but it would get me jailed.

[JimHuaHin]

This happens every year, before the school year begins.  In addition, you also see mothers and young women prostituting themselves to get extra money to pay for their childrens' or younger siblings' education expenses - uniforms, fees, etc..

 

Also every year, billions of Baht spent by the military and the Ministry of the Interior on weapons and otherr unnecessary equipment.  The Royal Thai Army Motto is "For the Nation, Religions, Monarchy and People" - if the Thai Army were to follow that motto and help the Nation and the People, then surely it could help the Thai people in need by paying the education expenses of those in need.

 

 

[rbkk]

37 minutes ago, tomazbodner said:

I don't know anyone there but feel very bad for situation he is in, and wish to help. Was it not just yesterday that a 14 year old girl committed suicide for being expelled from school as tuition wasn't paid for her?

 

If someone wishes to learn, every effort should be taken to make that possible for them. And for this father, that 2500 likely wasn't the entire amount, but what was the gap to pay the tuition.

 

I support many with micro-loans via kiva.org for this exact cause. But while it's very active in neighbouring countries and elsewhere, local organisations are nearly invisible in the platform. The other way trying to support kids is through Worldvision, but there it's specific kids being supported through education. Doesn't cover cases like this family.

 

Overall a sad situation and a gaping hole in government policies, if they were serious about the Thailand 4.0. I'd say something more, but it would get me jailed.

I have requested help to contact/find this father on the Dailynews facebook page for you.

[Ralf001]

They woulda give him Bt.2500 for the pickup.

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, RafPinto said:

Pity to see that people have to sell their belongings to send kids to school when others throw money around, buying new submarines (with no engines).

The "have and have-nots"... worldwide problem.

Some go to state school others are sent abroad...

[Tony125]

1 hour ago, rbkk said:

I have requested help to contact/find this father on the Dailynews facebook page for you.

If you get that info post it  on the forum. Others might also want to contribute. I would have paid for the little 14 year old girl who killed herself tuition if had known about it before hand.

[Liverpool Lou]

2 hours ago, tomazbodner said:

Was it not just yesterday that a 14 year old girl committed suicide for being expelled from school as tuition wasn't paid for her?

No, it wasn't, she was not expelled by the school!

[The Hammer2021]

4 hours ago, rbkk said:

Who is your comment directed at? 

The webfact team and Asean now editorial staff. I have also reported it.

BTW - I find your question rather strange. Do you know how forums  and threads work?

"REPLY TO THIS TOPIC"

Is a clue! LOL

Edited May 18, 2022 by The Hammer2021

[tomazbodner]

15 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

No, it wasn't, she was not expelled by the school!

A 14-year-old female junior high school student, attending a school in Thailand’s southern province of Phatthalung, has committed suicide after she was allegedly expelled by her teacher for failing to show up on the first day of the new school term on May 9th and for allegedly failing to pay the school fees.

 

 

[Liverpool Lou]

11 minutes ago, tomazbodner said:

27 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

No, it wasn't, she was not expelled by the school!

A 14-year-old female junior high school student, attending a school in Thailand’s southern province of Phatthalung, has committed suicide after she was allegedly expelled

"Allegedly".

The Bangkok Post reports that a student counsellor advised her to change schools, as her mother wanted and move from Satri Phatthalung School in Phatthalung province to a school near her home in Songkhla province, because of the family's financial problems.

 

If that is true, advice to change schools (because of financial difficulties and the mother's wishes) is not expulsion.

Edited May 18, 2022 by Liverpool Lou

[brianthainess]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

went to a government pawn shop run by the municipality in Sisaket in Thailand's north east.

Shameful that a pawn shop set up by the government to help the poor should be charging interest. maybe put it into the education system 

 

9 hours ago, webfact said:

The facility has a promotion for May and June offering monthly interest rates as low as .25% on small deals and 1% on items over 5,000 baht in value. 

  

[bbko]

8 hours ago, Henryford said:

A university education for 2,500 baht, that's a bargain.

Are you trying to say 2,500b is the cost for the schooling?  555.  More likely school supplies or food or other daily living expenses.

[Tony125]

20 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

"Allegedly".

The Bangkok Post reports that a student counsellor advised her to change schools, as her mother wanted and move from Satri Phatthalung School in Phatthalung province to a school near her home in Songkhla province, because of the family's financial problems.

 

If that is true, advice to change schools (because of financial difficulties and the mother's wishes) is not expulsion.

A teacher telling a student not to come back to the school because of missing 1st day and not paying school fees is expulsion.  Telling her what alternatives she had doesn't excuse  the fact she was told not to come back, alegedly.

[rbkk]

22 hours ago, rbkk said:

I have requested help to contact/find this father on the Dailynews facebook page for you.

 

21 hours ago, Tony125 said:

If you get that info post it  on the forum. Others might also want to contribute. I would have paid for the little 14 year old girl who killed herself tuition if had known about it before hand.

Update: Sadly Dailynews have not responded to either my message on Messenger or my E-mail. Perhaps others have some better ideas/luck?