In 2008 Min became one of our first scholarship students. Min was in her third year at Ban Thanong School. Min lived with her parents and two brothers in a very old wooden house. The house was 15 kilometers away from her school. Min and her younger brother went to school together on an old bicycle. When we first visited her family at home, we gave her 3,000 baht extra to buy a new bicycle.  

Bird, a student at Tabao Witthaya School was granted his first Fund Isaan scholarship in 2011 while in his fourth year of secondary education. Like all Fund Isaan scholarship students Bird was a very bright student, as a matter of fact, he was the number one of his class.

Fund Isaan granted Fern a scholarship in 2011. Fern had just graduated from Buached Witthaya School with an extreme high score of 99%. Fern came from a poor background. Her father was a rice farmer and her mother helped him on the farm. They also grew rubber trees to make some extra money.

Fund Isaan granted An a scholarship in 2014, when she was 19 years old. An had just finished her high school at Sangkha Industrial and Community Education College with a grade of 83%. She would like to continue studying Accounting at the same college.

“I would like to become a history and geography teacher”: said Mot in 2010 when he became our Fund Isaan scholarship student.