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Helping children living and working on the streets in Thailand
CHIANG MAI, Thailand, March 2012 – When Poon* left home more than a year ago he loved his new-found freedom: no adults to answer to, no schools to attend and all the time in the world to hang out and have fun with his new friends on ...
Looking through the lens of children’s rights
AYUTTHAYA, Thailand, March 2012 – To many people, a Ministry of Education regulation that stipulates a specific hair length for female students in public schools may not appear worthy of discussion by a United Nations committee.
Just the right amount: a new process of iodising salt in Thailand
BANGKOK, 24 October 2011 – Despite spending hours spraying and hand-mixing potassium iodate into some 500 kilograms of salt each day, Sho Maw, a 33-year-old worker at the Petchsakorn Salt Factory in Samut Sakorn Province, has never been certain...
Love and Understanding Key to Helping Children Help Themselves
BANGKOK, 7 February 2012 - Valentine’s Day is a day for love and romance. It is a day when people express love in extraordinary ways. But it is children and young people who need love, and the understanding that naturally accompanies it, most of all.
Breastfeeding best to protect babies from illnesses during floods
AYUTTHAYA, Thailand, November 2011 – Sujira Imsamran gave birth just two days after being evacuated from her house in Ayutthaya Province, one of the areas hardest-hit by flooding. Despite the stress of being displaced and worrying about her baby’s...
UNICEF provides mosquito nets to protect evacuees from dengue fever
After losing their homes and in some cases loved ones to the Thai floods, families staying at the evacuation centre set up in Bang Krai Nok Temple in northern Bangkok now have something else to worry about – dengue fever.
Children find shelter from the Thai floods at a Bangkok temple
Forced to flee his home due to rising floodwaters and now living in a Buddhist temple serving as makeshift evacuation centre, 12-year-old Tang can somehow still find a reason to smile.
University assists flood-affected families in Bangkok
A tired mother Gaew is one of the thousands of people made homeless by Thailand’s devastating floods. She waits with her chubby five-month-old baby, Peem, outside a makeshift health clinic at Bangkok’s Phranakhon Rajabhat University.
Child-friendly spaces: comfort zones for children affected by floods
AYUTTHAYA, Thailand, October 31, 2011 – Kanitha Kaicharit, 10, spends more than an hour each day travelling to Ayutthaya City Hall with her grandmother in order to get the free food and water being distributed to flood-affected families.
Exile on main street
UNICEF took a group of popular Thai bloggers to see projects for marginalised children in Chiang Mai district. After visiting orchard schools in Fang, we returned to Chiang Mai itself to visit a drop-in centre for street children.
Fruits of labour
CHAING MAI, Thailand, 17 October 2011 - Last week, we took a group of Thai bloggers to UNICEF-supported projects for marginalised children in Chiang Mai district. After our visit to the orchard night school, we went to see a day school in the same area.
Evening class
Many of Thailand’s fruit orchards are staffed by low-paid migrant workers, whose children rarely get to go to school. We visited UNICEF-supported orchard schools as part of a project to reach a wider audience by engaging 12 well-known Thai bloggers.
Making Breastfeeding Possible for Working Moms
SAMUT PRAKAN, 12 August 2011 - Every morning, Natnaree Kaewprakob breastfeeds her 14-month-old baby before going to work at a factory in Bangpu Industrial Estate. During the day, she expresses her breast milk a few times.
The Road Home
BANGKOK, 24 May 2011 - Fahan (not his real name) smiles as he jokes around with his friends at the Pak Kred Reception Home for Boys, which has served as his temporary home since March 2010. But those smiles due little to hide the deep sadness...
How would you like life to be for children in 2027?
BANGKOK, 3 May 2011 - When this question was posed to a group of young people at a forum 6 months ago, some initially appeared perplexed. Sixteen years is a long time.
Man U legend Byran Robson helping UNICEF in Bangkok
BANGKOK, 18 April 2011 - Manchester United legends Bryan Robson and Andrew Cole were in Bangkok earlier this month as part of a fundraising tour to help the Manchester United Foundation raise £1 million for UNICEF’s work for children worldwide..
School's out
BANGKOK, 6 March 11 - Read about how UNICEF Thailand is helping children living in Bangkok’s slum communities get an education.
Courage to live
KHON KAEN, Thailand, 8 February 2011 - How UNICEF Thailand is helping children living with HIV lead a meaningful life through art and drama.
Orchard schools branch out
CHIANG MAI, Thailand, November 2010 – Inside one of the many sprawling orange orchards that stretch across northern Chiang Mai’s Fang district near the border with Myanmar stands a simple, one-story building with a rough concrete floor...
Ensuring the 'first right' online
UDONTHANI, Thailand, July 2010 – Among the many things on the “to do” list of 30-year-old Namaoy Satrom, who the day before had given birth to a healthy baby girl at Udon Thani Provincial Hospital, was something she had never realized the importance...
Finding the way to full rehabilitation
SONGKHLA, Thailand, August 2010 – Abject poverty and domestic violence were daily realities for Somsak Chuchuykhom as he was growing up in the border province of Narhatiwat. Regarded as his family’s “bad and stupid” son, he was put to work at the age...
Thai children and youth with HIV among winners of 2010 Red Ribbon Award
BANGKOK, 22 July 2010 – The Youth Volunteer Group, a Thailand-based group of children and youth living with HIV, has won the 2010 Red Ribbon Award at the 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna...
Training for troubled teens: A TV series on young offenders in Thailand
BANGKOK, 24 June 2010 - Carrying a rucksack, Sopon Poonkhum - in casual outfit - is reluctant to walk down the path in the rising afternoon temperature toward the office building of Ban Kanchanaphisek Juvenile Training Centre...
Parliamentarians discuss how to bolster children's rights
BANGKOK, Thailand, 6 April 2010 – More than 600 parliamentarians from over 120 countries gathered in Bangkok from 27 March to 1 April to discuss how to better realize children’s rights. The 122nd Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly addressed...
