Operations
Projects are managed by director Annelie Hendriks - the founder, a volunteer and a Dutch national. Ratana Keunkeaw, a Thai citizen, assists her. They work in close collaboration with the Department of Education in Mae Sariang District and with the directors of the schools involved.
Samsara’s philosophy is to seek and actively promote the participation of the community. Villagers therefore do most of the construction work voluntarily. Many of them are parents of the schoolchildren. This contributes to a better relationship between school and village, and promotes support for education within the community.
Most of the schools in the mountains of Mae Sariang District (185 schools with 27,000 children) are only accessible in the dry season. The rainy season makes it difficult to use the small, muddy and slippery roads. Construction and monitoring therefore must be accomplished in a seven-month period (November through May).
One Samsara project may provide several different benefits to a single school or similar benefits to several schools. Further, some schools have been the recipients of improvements from more than one project.
Since 2002 Samsara Foundation has provided the following facilities, services and amenities at schools in Northern Thailand: 41 school dormitories; 25 school canteens; five school libraries; 16 toilet buildings; water purification installations at 73 schools; ten cement rainwater collecting tanks; for 48 schools, books; for 44 schools, furniture and small facilities; for 100 schools, medicines; for 40 schools, teaching materials for children with special needs; for many children, hundreds of one-year scholarships.
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