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Farmer Community School
Thailand
It started with Plaboo Village
Farmer Community School, by Arley Smude
August 27, 2011
After a few months of volunteering in Plaboo Village in 2010 and seeing their Tie-Dye Group (www.plaboovillage.com) my interest in social enterprises swelled.I started my master's in Singapore later that year and decided to make social enterprise in Thailand the focus of my master's project. In 2010 the Thai government opened the Thai Social Enterprise Office or TSEO (http://tseo.or.th/). Thanks to my stay in Plaboo Village with the Farmer Community School two classmates and I are now helping the TSEO define social enterprise for Thailand and the criteria to be one. Along with my two classmates I went back to Plaboo in the summer of 2011 to conduct interviews and do field research. The amazing experiences and opportunities that grew out of my simple volunteer stay through Omprakash has an impact...
My stay in Plaboo
Farmer Community School, by Arley Smude
January 04, 2011 | 1 comment
I stayed in Plaboo from February-May 2010. My time there was an experience I will take with me wherever I go. It went far beyond teaching the kids. From the very first day when I was welcomed by the whole village I was treated like family. From farming and fishing to countless community meetings, I was constantly learning something new. I worked with the Women Tie-Dye Group of the village to organize and create a website for their handmade tie-dye goods, www.plaboovillage.com. It was a fantastic experience that I hope someone will continue to develop. Not having running water and a few other comforts of the developed world is something I forgot in a matter of days. I was too busy swimming, hunting lizards with the boys and doing the...