Many bailliages choose to support community endeavors. In Bangkok it has been decided to collect donations at each dinner to support a particular charity.

Duang Prateep Foundation

In the nineteen sixties one Klong Toey Slum dweller was a teenage girl working on the docks of Bangkok to pay her way through a teacher training college.

Prateep Ungsongtham had spent only four years at primary school but this was enough to show her that education could transform lives. As a 12-year-old worker she began to save from her meagre wages to pay for secondary education at night school. She was awarded a place at a college of education and, since there were no schools for the slum children, she decided to open one herself at her home in the slum.

She soon found that much of her time was spent helping the children and their families coping with the conditions of slum life rather than formal teaching. Her prime educational concern was giving these deprived families some belief in themselves and hope for the future.

She soon found that much of her time was spent helping the children and their families coping with the conditions of slum life rather than formal teaching. Her prime educational concern was giving these deprived families some belief in themselves and hope for the future.

When they were threatened with eviction, Prateep's neighbours asked her to put their case to the landowner, the government and the news media. It was a formidable task for a slum girl not yet 20, but she rose to it triumphantly. This was to be the first, unexpected step in a career of public service on behalf of the urban poor. It was to bring Prateep the Magsaysay and Rockefeller awards that enabled her to establish the Duang Prateep Foundation, as well as gaining her the trust of both slum people and the Government.

The Duang Prateep Foundation has projects covering a broad spectrum of community and social development work. Children are at the heart of the Foundation's programmes, as children cannot thrive if they develop surrounded by social and environmental problems. The primary focus of the Foundation is upon the urban poor, but it has outreach activities in many rural areas in other provinces

Kindergartens
Educational Sponsorship
Special education for the hearing impaired
Caravan puppet show
Lunch programme
AIDS project
Fire prevention and emergency assistance
Caring for elderly and disabled
Community work
Credit union
Children's art project
New life project

Donation

Donations can be done by credit card, by money transfer to the

Duang Prateep Foundation
Klong Toey Branch
Thai Farmers Bank
Account number 017-2-06336-5

or by money order; or by cashiers' or personal cheques.
Kindly note that the bank does charges more for handling cheques and money orders than bank transfers.

When making a bank transfer it is important to forward a copy of the documentation to the Duang Prateep Foundation. It can then trace the contribution and issue a receipt.

If a donation to the Duang Prateep Foundation has been made and no acknowledgement from has been received within a month, please contact the Foundation so that they can try and trace your contribution.
Donations for US and German taxpayers are tax deductible when made through registered support organisations in each country.

Duang Prateep Foundation
34 Lock 6, Art Narong Road, Klong Toey
Bangkok 10110
THAILAND
Tel :+66 (0)2 671 4045-8, 249 3553, 249 4880
Fax: +66 (0)2 249 5254, 249 9500
dpffound@ksc.th.com

For more information please have a look at www.dpf.or.th