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...

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• -How students at the Duang Prateep Foundation and members of the DPF's senior citizens group got together for their annual Sports Day.

  -Teachers from the troubled southern provinces visited the DPF tsunami relief centre for training, and children from the centre, went to the north to meet hill-tribe children.

  - Two television crews visited from abroad to film documentaries about DPF Secretary General Prateep Ungsongtham Hata.

  -Youngsters from Khlong Toei and Phang-nga went to speak at parliament on Children's Rights Day.

  -Long time DPF worker Wassana received an award from Princess Soamsawali and much more...

• The News from Thailand section includes information about the Children's Forum at parliament, about the poor are being hit by rising debt levels and how the World Health Organisation warns Southeast Asia about Aids prevention.

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