30 cents: Keeping poor Thai children in school for Bt10
Thirty cents. There’s not much you can buy for $0.30 these days, but in Thailand the meagre amount multiplied by many willing people is allowing 230 children from desperately poor households to attend school.
Initiated last year in the northern Thailand city of Chiang Mai, the Bt10 Chiang Mai Fund asked local residents who were able and willing to donate Bt10 (US$0.30) each to help the regions desperately poor children stay in school. Within one month donations had reached Bt2.7 million ($81,428).
John Le Fevre
