Scholarship Students Archives

The scholarship recipient and family visit

After the 2nd-semester examination result was announced, we found that Au can still maintain her good grade as she did in the previous semester. To ensure that the parents are aware of their daughter’s accomplishments so we visited her family. During this visit, we followed up on their employment situation and the difficulties they faced. …

Congratulations to our new graduate!

We are very pleased to share one more memorable achievement with all our generous founders, donors, and supporters who made it possible for our stateless, nationality-less, marginalized, and vulnerable students to have access to higher education opportunities. We are very grateful for your support!

Senghom, one of our students who was awarded a full scholarship from 2018 to 2022 has recently completed her degree in Business Administration Program in Business English, from Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna. She is now moving to the next step in her career plan.

Senghom

Hom is 16 and has just moved to a vocational school in Chiang Mai to study Tourism and Hotel Management. It is fairly common in Thailand to move into vocational study after Grade 9 and Hom feels that the skills and training she would gain from this course would greatly increase her chances of finding …

Arthit

Kwah Dao has been working with Artit, who is about 22 and has spent the majority of his life in Thailand, for over a decade. Artit had a difficult start in life but since being awarded a KD scholarship he has picked himself up and gone from strength to strength. Artit’s parents split up many …

Tuaylun

Tuayluen is 20 years old and about to complete her first year at Chiang Mai Rajabhat University. She is studying for a Bachelor of Education (Thai). She was born in Thailand and has lived all her life in a bamboo hut in the Rock Village, one of the communities which Kwah Dao has worked with …

Tawon

Tawon is 21 years old and studying for a bilingual degree in Economics at the Faculty of Economics at Chiang Mai University. His older sister, Jab, is also a Kwah Dao scholarship student. Tawon’s family, one of the poorest that Kwah Dao works with, moved to Thailand before he was born. They have never been back …

Suthep

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Pai

Pai is 19 years old and in her first year at university studying pre-primary education. Pai’s parents have been in Thailand for about 20 years, so she was born not long after they arrived. Her father works as a day labourer in the construction industry. She says that he is getting older, he’s not in …

Muang

Muang is 19 years old and has almost completed his first year of university. He is studying a Bachelor of Education in Computing at Rajabhat University Lampang. Muang and his parents come from a small village in Burma. They moved to Thailand in search of a better life when he was five years old. In …

Charee

Charee, or ‘Not’, is 20 years old. She graduated from high school in 2015. She always wanted to continue her studies after high school, but didn’t think that she would be able to apply for a scholarship. Her plan was to try to work to save enough money to see her through university, however after …