Starting in Sisaket, through the generous support of a growing number of sponsors, the ATF now helps schoolchildren and students in Nakhon Ratchasima, Buriram, Surin, Amnat Charoen, Ubon Ratchathani, Khon Kaen and other provinces.

Bordering Laos and Cambodia, Northeast Thailand has an inhospitable climate which allows only a short rice-growing season and the parents of many of our children have to leave them with grandparents or other relatives while they go off to other regions in search of work.

When the 2004 Tsunami hit the South of Thailand many of those who died were the parents of children in Isaan, and increasingly AIDS is taking a toll.

Sometimes children do not complete the state education they are entitled to, and leave to work as young as 12 because their families cannot afford the basic necessities of life. The Foundation gives financial assistance to children at primary and secondary school level, picked out by their teachers and headteachers, to make sure this does not happen. Nowadays we also give grants to college and university students. 

The ATF has supported Benjawan from Buriram
since she was seven.
 Her parents are poor rice farmers.

We currently support over 450 schoolchildren and students. We make education grants to young monks and novices from particularly poor families.. Bordering Laos and Cambodia, Northeast Thailand has an inhospitable climate which allows only a short rice-growing season and the parents of many of our children have to leave them with grandparents or other relatives while they go off to the cities in search of work. 

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