At present, Nam is still living with her grandmother and little girl siblings in an old house built on a swamp in the public land. She wakes up early everyday to help her grandmother make Thai desserts, wrapped with banana leaf for selling at the morning market. After that, she goes back home and gets dressed to go to school. After school, she helps with chores and baby-sits her little siblings.
Nam told us about how she felt when granted with scholarship that ““Just few weeks after getting scholarship, my grandma got a serious leg pain and then admitted for emergency operation in the hospital. It took a few months for her to fully recovered which caused her unable to walk or work to earn for a living. In such situation, I could not imagine how I can survive at school, if I did not get the scholarship.”
Nam and her grandmother, Raya Yookashane,
while making Thai desserts to sell in the morning market.
Nam also expressed her thank to her scholarship sponsor that “I would like to say a big thank to a kind sponsor to give me the scholarship fund and also a gift set of lovely notebooks and stationeries. Although my studying performance is not as good as when I was in primary school, but I promise that I will try harder so that I can become a teacher when I grow up”
Nowadays, Nam’s grandmother's illness has recovered and she starts making Thai desserts to earn for a living again. Eventhough she could not work that hard like she did in the past, but scholarship is truly helpful in release her burden on Nam’s schooling expenses.
Nam with the gift of lovely stationeries and notebooks that the sponsor gave her
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