DELEGATION OF THAILAND

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DELEGATION OF THAILAND

• Projects for the poor
• Miguel House
• La Salle house
• The Center
• Sunami children
• Orphans from AIDS PARETNS
• Burmese migrants
• 7. BAMBOO SCHOOL

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DELEGATION OF THAILAND

• 1. Miguel House in Nakorn Sawan
• Started 1983.
• Educational deficiency Only 18 of students have
  access to secondary education in Nakorn Sawan.
• Answer 150 scholarships for secondary level
  students, plus free hostel for 50 students.
• Closed down in 2006.

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DELEGATION OF THAILAND

• 2. Miguel House in Chantabury
• Started 1988
• Educational deficiency Only 18 of students have
  access to secondary education in Chantabury
• Answer 150 scholarships for secondary level
  students, plus free hostel for 50 students, for
  6 years .
• Still running

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3. Center for Small children

• Started in 1986
• Problem
• Children of garbage collectors get only 1-2 years
  of education.

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3. Center for Small children

• Answer Prepare children to go to school.
• Pre-school education. Aged 3-7. Completely free

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4. La Salle House
Started 1987 Problem Street children, children
with parents in prison, with aged grandparents do
not go to school
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Child collects garbage while mother and father
are in Prison
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4. La SALLE HOUSE

• Answer
• In Lasalle House we are father and mother for
  the children. Boys and girls.
• 2008 32 boys and 34 girls

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5. Sunami Orphans

• 30 children whose parents died during the sunami.
• Children did not receive any help from nobody

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Sunami orphans

• Provide financial aid received from PROYDE.
  Sisters Lovers of the Cross visit them regularly

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6. Orphans of AIDS PARENTS

• La Salle Sister Yindee works with these children,
  North of Thailand.
• Parents got AIDS while working in Bangkok.

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Orphans of AIDS parents

• Provide financial help and accompany them

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7. Burmese children in Thailand

• Br. Victor works with the National Catholic
  Commission for Migrants

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Burmese children in Thailand

• 1,700,000
• Burmese migrants in Thailand. Government help
  little with the education of children

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Burmese Migrant children

• Provide schools and finance for 10 small
  schools.
• 12 Burmese priests to come to Thailand project.

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7. The Bamboo school

• 80 boys and girls with 5 teachers. Burmese
  border. Teachers
• got no pay.

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The Bamboo school

• The Delegation of Thailand in the process of
  adopting the school.

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The Bamboo school

• Possible project with Burmese Brothers
• and PARC.

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Conclusion 1

• It looks like a lot projects however this is
  less than 10 of the works of running our big
  institutions.
• A lot of difficulties were found on the way.
• The work of transforming our educational works to
  serve the poor is not understood .

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Conclusion 2

• Today it is less scandalous (dangerous) to speak
  about the poor than 20 years ago.
• Many Brothers have no sympathy for the
  educational needs of poor children.
• The Service of the poor though education seems to
  have become the work of a minority.