International Day for Eradictaion of Extreme Poverty ; 17 October 2010: Event in Thailand

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Ratchakorn: In the writing workshop we will invite people to share what they do to contribute in the fight against poverty in their daily life or what are their ideas: how can we, together, fight to overcome extreme poverty.

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Caroline: Ha…sounds so exciting The children from Srisaket will also bring with them the exhibition of paintings that they did with the children in their community We will exihibit it in the park.

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Ratchakorn: There will be brochure of the UNMC and T-shirts that can be given to participants who join the walk rally.

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Caroline: What kinds of material?

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Ratchakorn: Actually this year we also get support from the Stand up campaign of the UN Millennium Campaign. They will also send some materials to join us on the day.

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Ratchakorn, Treasurer of the Friends of ATD Foundation and Caroline Faudot, Volunteer of the International Movement ATD Fourth World, Bangkok Team said about activity organized in Bangkok, Thailand for the Occastion of the the 17 October: International Day for Eradication of Extreme Poverty.

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Ratchakorn: So what’re we going to do there? Caroline

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Caroline: Yes, we prepare some activities, for this day. We will have different workshops, mainly for the children and also for the adults. We will have drawing activity on the theme of poverty, we will have writing message as well, and we also have story tellers.

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Caroline: This year, we will also have delegations of children coming from Sri sakate province, from the Northeast of Thailand. These two children have been elected by their community to be representatives from their community to come in Bangkok They will read Testimony of life. Yes

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Ratchakorn: We will start the day with a walk rally. Everyone will walk around the park before we start to do the workshops in different corners

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Caroline: and there will be also some music, we will have a band coming also so this event will be joyful.

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Ratchakorn: We expect that maybe 200 people will join us.

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Caroline: This is the public events the year so we Of course we invite people from the community that we are committed with, we invited all our supporters, and friends, and we also count on the participation of the people that are in the park on Sunday morning.

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Caroline: The event will finish with the picnic, we’ll eat together in the park