Without qualifications, the future for young people in rural Thailand is bleak.
Lert Sa Wat gives hope through a child sponsorship programme. £20 per month provides a child with school uniform, shoes, P.E kit and bag, the money to have a school meal each day and the opportunity to gain the qualifications necessary to equip them for fulltime employment.
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Before the Lert Sa Wat Nursery opened in 2003, young children were left with elderly relatives or to fend for themselves while their parents went to work. Children from poor rural families were totally unprepared for school and never managed to catch up. The Lert Sa Wat Nursery cares for over 30 rural children aged 3-6 They attend Monday to Friday in term time.
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Lert Sa Wat has taken in children when they have nowhere else to go. The Lert Sa Wat family is small, never more than 7 children at any one time. Children and teenagers eat together, play together, set off for school together, worship together. Young people go away to college or University and return in the holidays. It is a family and they have the joys and sorrows of any large family. A great cause for rejoicing was the graduation of Tee, the oldest boy in the Home.
This year, Goya passed her M4 exams and is now living independently and working. TonKhao is studying Social Work at Korat University and comes home in the holidays.
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