Project 16 : Life Skills Home Project
2002
Homeless boys and girls come from several social problems such as failure of the family institution, the boys/girls wish for his/her own freedom, bad friend-socializing, poverty and labour migration.
Being homeless, the boys/girls must exit from education, fall to the addiction/criminal /sexual- allurement circles, risk to infection especially AIDS and contribute to public untidiness.
Most importantly, youngsters homelessness is a loss to the future power of the nation.
Unfortunately at present there are still no agencies/organizations in Thailand which have accurate, complete data and statistics on homeless children (particularly the Thai youngsters) affecting an integrated solving of the homeless children problem to be not successful yet.
The Statesman Foundations executive board by its Honorary Presidents advice thus had adopted a youngster development project sited at Wat Suankaew as an experimental project to help solve the problem. |
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| Dr. Prasop Rattanakorn, Chairman of the Statesman Foundation at the same press conference |
The Privy Council Chairman and Statesman General Prem Tinasulanondh at the press conference on the Life Skills School Project to implement in Wat Suankaew |
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| The area in the Suankaew Foundation site Phra Archan Phra Payom Kalayano granted for the construction of the Life Skills Home Project |
The Life Skills Home Project during construction. |
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For the project the Foundation had coordinated with the Suankaew Foundation for support with the boys/girls dormitories and school buildings which are still lacked as a continued project to develop the boys and girls to return to society with quality.
To the project Wat Suankaew provides the supports with foods, in-temple employments for income, nearby schools for education and volunteers to take care and advise. The project site is situated in a cool, shady, natural environment with the park for health,exercise place, farmland, technical school and, importantly, dharma techings to educate the children to adhere to morals and virtures.
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| The life Skills Home for which Phra Payom Kalayano had planned for years. |
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