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Samsara Foundation supports the education of underprivileged rural children in Northern Thailand, regardless of religious or ethnic background.

 

 
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Welcome to Samsara’s website

Since 2002 Samsara Foundation has realized at mountains schools in the Northwest of Thailand the following projects: 94 school dormitories, 55 school canteens, 6 school libraries, 47 cement rainwater collecting tanks, 42 toilet buildings, for 82 schools big and for 75 schools small clean water installations, for 60 schools schoolbooks, for 123 schools furniture and small facilities, for 100 schools medicines and for 40 schools teaching materials for children with special needs. At 58 schools Samsara installed solar-power generated energy projects to receive school television and 3 schools received solar power generated energy for electricity at the whole school. 500 students have received a scholarship for an average period of 3 years.

 


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Why Samsara’s work is needed in Thailand and our results.

One might wonder why it is necessary to give financial support to educational facilities in a country like Thailand, where poverty does not seem to be so severe. IMF’s 2011 list of GDP per capita shows that Thailand ranks No. 84, just above Peru and below Tunisia. For a regional comparison: Indonesia ranks 119, Laos 137, but Malaysia is No. 58. However, Samsara is not active in the whole of Thailand, only in its poorest province: Mae Hong Son. This is a mountainous region where 60% of the population consists of mountain peoples, like the Hmong and the Karen. They live in isolated villages, high up in the mountains, accessed by very few roads. Their homes are simple huts made of bamboo and occasionally a little wood. Families have to survive on either very low incomes or none at all.  Read more….