“Sharing Not Separate” Project in Lopburi
Kharma Family and the Psychological Operations Battalion realized that there are many schools in the central region area that are close to our eyes and yet are in desperate need of assistance. Due to their location and small size, they went under many people’s radar until now.
We went in to assess the schools and the communities’ needs as well as the urgency for each task. We found that the communities in these areas are extremely poor and also that we will require assistance from more volunteers in order to help as best as we can.
As such, we’re going to reach out to bigger companies to gather more volunteers while assuring them that the area is completely safe. We want to provide the children with the education they need and a better quality of life.
Project [1/6]: Baan Klong Gade School in Lopburi
Project [2/6]: Baan Nhongbua School in Lopburi
Project [3/6]: Baan Toongtong School in Lopburi
Project [4/6]: Baan Dongklang School in Lopburi
Ethnic House Project in Chiang Rai
Project [5/6]
This ethnic house was intended to be used as a shelter for the 32 middle school and high school hill tribe children who needed a place to stay to ease their travel to school located down hill in the city.
Due to extreme poverty, the children lack food, shelter, and transportation to school as well as back home in the mountains during school break, which is crucial since they need to help their parents with work.
The owner of this ethnic house is a hill tribe couple who runs a coffee shop as their main source of income. However, the coffee shop was closed down in early 2017 and now their meager income is from a small farm that switches between growing mushrooms and vegetables to raising pigs, fish, ducks, and chickens, depending on the season. The amount of rice alone needed to feed the children costs about 2,000 Baht per month.
While the area is quite small, Kharma Family believes that helping these children and parents will create a children’s shelter that will last for generations.
As such, we are considering to help with further construction of a farmhouse that could be used to grow more mushrooms and raise more chickens. However, we will only do so if the hill tribe members agree not to have more children until they’re more ready financially.
We’ve also worked with many sponsors to help supply stationery, school supplies, toys, cleaning supplies, and all sorts of seeds and gardening tools.