ART EDUCATION PROGRAMS - Thailand

 

1. Subsomboonpittayakom School - Wangprajob District, Muang Tak

School Principal: Mongkol Maeteedham
CAF Liaison Officer: Patharawan Yongchai and Tanapol Pachoei

CAF provides educational support to the Subsomboonpittayacom School, located in a remote area of North Central Thailand, in the Wangprajob District in Muang Tak, in the outskirts of the city of Tak, one hundred and fifty kilometers from the Thailand-Burma border. The children who attend this school live in the surrounding rice fields and farmland, are of low socioeconomic status, and travel long distances walking/cycling to school in unpaved roads. Subsomboonpittayacom School is a primary school with enrollment of 375 students in grades K-9. Read more...

2. The Bangkok School for The Blind - Bangkok

School Principal: Manitr Khamngam
CAF Liaison Officer: Kwanchanok Muenkham and Tanapol Pachoei

CAF provides educational support to the Bangkok School for the Blind, which is managed by the Foundation for the Blind under The Patronage of H.M. Queen Sirikit of Thailand.

The Bangkok School for the Blind was originally established by Ms.Genevieve Caulfield (1888 - 1972), an American blind school teacher, on January 2,1939, at her small rental house on Saladaeng Road. With her determination of helping the blind in Thailand, Ms. Caulfield and several Thai university students developed Braille in Thai language for the first time. Her awards included recognition from the Japanese government for strengthening lationships between Japan and the United States (1960), The Magsaysay Award for International Understanding (1961), the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President John F. Kenedy in recognition of her work for the blind in Asia (1963), and the Thai decoration fifth class (Benjamaporn White Elephant) from The King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand (1965). Read more...