UNICEF: Tsunami 5: Providing hope to Thailand's Tsunami orphans

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/Thailand_52254.html

PHANG NGA PROVINCE, Thailand, 23 December 2009 In a remote corner of Phang Nga Province, nine-year-old Pimolpan and her aunt, Sanit Boontam, talk quietly on the porch of their small house. However, it was not always this way.

When Pimolpan was two-years-old, her mother died of HIV/AIDS. Five years ago, she lost her father in the tsunami. When Pimolpan first came to live with her aunt as a toddler, she was afraid of everything.

In Phang Nga, UNICEF supports a pilot project on child protection monitoring. Since the tsunami, child protection services have been extended and improved in this and other affected districts, benefiting Pimolpan and many other children.

Under the project, social workers are recruited and trained at the community level to monitor the well-being of orphans and to ensure that other vulnerable children receive care and support.

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• UNICEF
• Thailand
• Phang
• Nga
• tsunami
• children
• protection
• orphans

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