Our Programs

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Why do women in Thailand end up with so few choices?

  • Thailand’s rapic economic development has been predominately centred in the capital, Bangkok. The disparity in income between the city and the rest of the country is vast, with 80% of the country’s 7.3 million poor living in rural areas.
  • Families in rural Thailand remain dependent on agriculture. As technological advances have increased productivity, employment opportunities have grown for men, but reduced for women.
  • At the same time, the emergence of Bangkok as a tourism and export hub has created new urban opportunities for women, who are perceived to be cheaper and less likely to unionize than men, in low-level service sector and factory line work.
  • The cultural pressure to provide support for their families has led to a surge in rural to urban migration in young women looking for work.
  • 30% of Pratthanadee’s women finished only primary level education, and the remainder only reached secondary level. They have no additional training, few marketable skills and little work experience.
  • On arrival in Bangkok, these women enter a competitive modern workforce, where they struggle to compete for even the lowest rung of formal employment.
  • Employment opportunities are restricted to unskilled manufacturing and service-sector occupations, and the commercial sex sector is one of the few places where they can earn a good wage.
  • As a result, rural women in Bangkok have become concentrated in unstable and unregulated industries, exploited as cheap, easy and unprotected labor.
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Contents :

  • Introducing Pratthanadee…………………………………4
  • Meet our Board…………………………………………………5
  • How Pratthanadee Works…………………………………6
  • Training in 2014/15: In Numbers ………………………7
  • Meet our Students …………………………………………..8
  • Penn International Impact Consulting …………….10
  • Bangkok Focus Groups…………………………………….11
  • Stop Violence against Women………………………….12
  • 15th Anniversary Gala Concert and Dinner ……..13
  • Meet our Volunteers………………………………………..14
  • Pratthanadee Press Coverage………………………….16
  • Financial Report (2014-15) ………………………………18
  • Key Supporters and Partners in 2014/15 …………19
  • Meet the Pratthanadee Community ………………..21

Annual Reports :

Our Annual Reports are available below:


Annual Report (October 2014 –September 2015)

Frequently Asked Questions:

  • Where in Bangkok are you located?
  • What is your phone number?
  • As a volunteer English teacher, do I need to have teaching experience?
  • What is the commitment required of a volunteer?
  • Why did you change your name?
  • How are you funded?
  • Why were you set up?
  • What is the profile of your typical student?
  • If I make a donation, how will the funds be used?
  • Do you allow non-Thai disadvantaged women to enroll?
  • Where is your second branch located?

Frequently Asked Questions