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My books,
Monsoon Country, People of Esarn, and Tales of Thailand have
brought sufficient income for me to set up the Monsoon Country
Project to help villagers and their children in dire need
and in sickness. Gradually the Project has expanded to cover
a wider range of needs. It's objectives are as follows:
1. To
improve living conditions in any way possible including the
improvement of water reservoirs, and the supply of plants
and young trees to villagers to grow on their own land as
well as providing rice fields and buffaloes to landless farmers.
2. To
take care of poor people who are ill and cannot afford to
go to hospital some distance away from their villages by providing
transport and financial help to meet the necessary expenses.
3. To
help widows and deserted women who are left with insufficient
funds to support themselves and their children by providing
financial assistance, food items, clothing and medicine. This
category also covers old couples in need and in poor health.
4. To
provide scholarships to children of the poor.
5. To
set up and run a school where students learn the process of
reasoning, thinking critically, English, typing and computer
knowledge.
6. To
take care of the handicapped by providing financial support,
clothes, medicine and food.
7. To
minimize migration from rural to urban areas, and to inspire
among the young a greater feeling of self-confidence and dignity
and to instil in their minds the pride and love of being the
children of Esarn, instead of feeling ashamed of being from
Esarn, the poorest region of the Kingdom.
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