The sweet smell of success
Bangkok Post April 26, 2006
Garland maker shows that it's never too late to learn how to use a computer. More...

Life after the Senate
Bangkok Post March 31, 2006
For Prateep Ungsongtham Hata, former slum activist and now former senator, the campaign for a better life for the poor continues. More...

Uploading Everyone
The Nation May 04, 2005
The Duang Prateep Foundation is taking a megabyte out of the digital divide with its computer courses in low-rent Klong Toei. More...

Slum Angel of Bangkok
Kat Schneider, The Shocker Magazine August 2005
It's not surprising that a remarkable Thai woman named Prateep Ungsongtham has been revered as Bangkok's “Angel of the Slums” for going on 30 years. What is surprising is that she's a former wsu student whose own personal angel was a retired farmer from Newton, Kansas. More...

As the twig is bent
Bangkok Post Oct 07, 2003
The Duang Prateep Foundation is celebrating 25 years of helping the poor and looking to the future in its efforts to improve the quality of life for slum dwellers. More...

Change takes the whole community
The Nation Sep 5, 2003
On the 25th anniversary of the Duang Prateep Foundation, its leader reflects on the changes in the Klong Toei slum. More...

Pushing creativity
The Nation July 14, 2003
Art is used in Klong Toey to let the children there release tension and relax. More...

Alive and kicking
Bangkok Post February 13 2001
At the Niwattana New Life Project for boys, the drug war is being fought one soul-and body-at a time. More...

Karen Dahl Travels to Thailand
Wisconsin Rural Leadership Program website Karen Dahl, August 2000
The visits to various non-governmental organizations in Bangkok opened my eyes to how one person CAN affect the world. We met with one particular woman who exemplified the best of individual initiative, Kru Prateep Ungsongtham Hata. More...

Farm life puts troubled youth on reform path
The Nation March 26 2000
Chumphon Six hundred kilometres south of Bangkok, many juvenile delinquents watched the television news reports of the recent breakout and unrest at one correctional home after another. More...

Gift computers put to good use
The Nation February 29 2000
Seeing five-year-olds busily clicking away on 10 PCs would bring a smile to many. Even more impressive is that the scene takes place at Duang Prateep Kindergarten, school to some of Thailand's poorest children. More...

Giving youngsters a firm foundation
Bangkok Post October10 1999.
Education can be a way out of hardship for poor children. Unfortunately, the continued economic downturn has closed that opportunity for many youngsters. More...

All together now
Bangkok Post February 02 1999
Slum leaders believe unity and co-operation can help the urban poor improve their standard of living. And they are right. More...

Faces in the Crowd
Chris Bale 1998
After working for twenty years with charities in Asia, Chris Bale set out to meet some of the people he had previously come across in the course of his work. Chris Bale’s journey took him to several places including the Duang Prateep Foundation in Klong Toey slum. More...

Angels of the slums
Bangkok Post April 20, 1997
Living amidst crime and violence, underprivileged people in Bangkok's biggest slum community are learning to help others even worse off than themselves. More...