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Smart Finance, Bright Futures: Empowering Girls with Financial Skills
This November, Pratthanadee Foundation proudly conducted the Financial Planning Workshop under the Better Me for Girls project, reaching 393 underprivileged high school and junior high girls across Ubon Ratchathani and Sisaket provinces. Thanks to the generous support...
Empowering Educators: Managing Violence and Stress in Schools
At Pratthanadee Foundation, we believe in empowering educators as the cornerstone of transformative education. On November 15, 2024, we hosted a workshop in Ubon Ratchathani and Amnat Charoen, focusing on two critical issues: violence in schools and educators’ stress...
Empowering Change: Transformative Impact of the Ubon Ratchathani Workshop on Girls’ Safety and Confidence
We’re excited to share the impactful results of our recent workshop in Ubon Ratchathani this September. Prior to the workshop, 81% of the girls reported experiencing or witnessing violence, underscoring the urgent need for this training. Thanks to your support, we...
Birds, Bees and Such
August saw us back in the schools in northeastern Thailand where we had spent time at in June when we kicked off the ‘Better Me For Girls’ project generously sponsored by OVOLPE Foundation. This time, the same 464 underprivileged high school girls were trained in...
Adding Depth To Our Work
In July, we began a pilot program aimed at adding depth to our training of at-risk high school girls in northeast Thailand. Generously supported by OVOLPE Foundation, it involves providing the same group of students with continuous training throughout the year. For...
Reflecting on 25 Years of Impact and a Visit to Ubon Ratchathani
As Pratthanadee Foundation approaches its 25th anniversary, I am filled with pride and optimism about our journey and future. Recently, I had the opportunity to visit Ubon Ratchathani, where our team is making a significant difference in the lives of girls...
Filling A Knowledge Gap
In our teenage years, we were clueless as to what we would do after graduating from public high schools. Some two to three decades later, we saw the same sense of disconnect with the future in students at workshops we held in northeast Thailand in June. In a project...
Thriving Through Adversity
Former Pratthanadee student Teang (Teang Polraksa) developed her mental toughness from her childhood years. While her parents planted rice in the fields, she tended the buffalo and cooked for the family. To supplement the rice, she had to forage for other foods to put...
From Ubon to Washington DC
July was a whirlwind for me. In the course of several weeks, my team and I made our way through over 10 schools and reached out to more than 2,000 high school girls in northeast Thailand including Ubon province. We trained, distributed self-learning kits and collected...
“I WANT TO BE A TEACHER!”
Our stay in Ubon Ratchathani, Amnat Charoen and Sisaket provinces this summer was revelatory in many ways. Apart from learning that schools were cited by most high school girls as the place they had experienced violence, on a more positive note, we also gained...
Schools are not that safe!
This summer we embarked on the road to Ubon Ratchathani, Amnat Charoen and Sisaket provinces in a project funded by the Irish Aid In-Country Micro Projects Scheme. Part of our work involved giving 1,200 high school girls a self-learning kit on identifying and dealing...
FOSTERNG A SAFE AND AN INCLUSIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
Some 20 minutes outside of Ubon Ratchathani city centre, Warinchamrab School is a progressive institution we’ve worked with for several years now and have always had a good experience. It’s no different on this day when we had special visitors. The school was abuzz...
“ALL GENDER IDENTITIES DESERVE RESPECT” SAYS CANADIAN AMBASSADOR
Early last year we took on a challenge with support of the Canadian Embassy in Thailand. We’ve never done something quite like it: mainstream gender inclusivity education in select high schools on a pilot basis. Could we do it? Well, there’s no turning back since we...
PRATTHANADEE HITS NEW MILESTONE IN NORTHEAST THAILAND
On the ground in Ubon Ratchathani for more than a decade now, we’ve trained over 30,000 high school girls in the province and surrounding areas on dealing with gender-based violence and abuse
Back On The Road In Ubon!
By Pratthanadee Staff | Bangkok, Girls, Women After having our wings clipped for the last two years by the pandemic, we’re happy to report that we’re back on the road in Ubon Ratchathani. For close to a decade, we’d run workshops for teenage girls in poorly resourced...
Financial Literacy Keeps Them Afloat During Pandemic
Nong and Jin, students at Pratthanadee Foundation, share quite similar life experiences.Both have husbands who not only didn’t show up in the marriage but also left them with debt and the sole responsibility of taking care of the children and extended families. Their...
WE MAKE LEMONADE TOO!
In over two decades of our work, we had to deal with political and economic ups and downs in the kingdom. But they never lasted long. Thailand, known for its Teflon tenacity, always bounced back. The Covid pandemic, coming up to its two-year mark soon, is however a...
Women like Duang are Thinking Ahead in a Post-Pandemic World
When the factory she was working for suddenly started giving line workers more days off, Duang became apprehensive. She had come to Bangkok when she was just 17, dropping out of school in Chaiyaphum province. She had worked in jewelry manufacture ever since, setting...
Women’s Day: By investing in herself, Nang lifted others around her
Nang has always known to depend on herself for survival. Originally from Khon Kaen province, she dropped out of secondary school because she needed to work to supplement her family’s low income. Like many other women before her, Nang moved to Bangkok in search of...
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Your first newsletter of 2021!
Sawadee pee mai! We hope this email finds you and your family well in the new year. Just when we thought we were almost out of the woods on the pandemic, a second wave of Covid-19 infections surfaced in the kingdom. We have had to stop physical classes temporarily at...
‘Makeup’ Your Life Thailand
The Pratthanadee Foundation recently hosted makeup artist Ms Sasinipa Siripitukdet and her crew at our office. They held their "Makeup Your Life Thailand" workshop for our students from the ‘Better Me’ class. Everyone was provided with a full set of cosmetics and...
LIFE LESSONS FROM THE SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS
I graduated in March 2020 and I was so looking forward to entering the workforce, like the rest of my university mates. Then life served up a giant curve ball and knocked me off my feet. The Covid-19 pandemic hit, a partial lockdown followed, making it difficult for...
Graduated Finally!
Last year, we kickstarted a project sponsored by the folks at JD Sports. They were drawn to our mission of empowering underprivileged girls and women as this dovetailed with the causes they were passionate about. The international sports fashion retailer, which opened...
FON AND JOY
Oranuch Wonggo or Fon is originally from Nakhon Pathom, a city some 60 kilometres from Bangkok. She became a caregiver at a young age, looking after her ailing father when she was just 16. Fon continued her studies while taking care of him and graduated with a...
Q&A with Watinee Khutrakul (Poom)
Q: How was your experience teaching during the lockdown? A: We had classes via video calls as classes were suspended. The students had a lot of free time in their rented rooms and so I thought this was a great opportunity to review what we had learnt. In addition, I...
Q&A with Suppapong Sooksangchaya (Lek)
Q: How does it feel to be back in class? A: It’s great! Being able to resume a face-to-face class with my students makes me feel much more in control. I feel that I can handle the class more effectively. I can move around the room, approach each student who may need...
Q&A with Ed Tauscher
Q: How does it feel to be back in class? A: It feels wonderful to back in class! In-person teaching benefits all students and teachers. Classroom participation helps students learn English and there is no substitute for it! Q: What are some of the challenges you face...
