We are a Belgian Thai non-profit working with schools and communities in Isaan.
Isaan is home to one third of Thailand's population and faces persistent rural poverty.
Scholarships for bright students, volunteer English support, and IT classes in rural schools.
Fund Isaan granted Wa a scholarship in 2014 when she was 18 years old. She was studying in her final year of secondary school at Buached Witthaya School and waiting for the result of her entrance exams to university.
Wa was one of the best students in her province. Her grade was 95% and she was the chairman of the student’s council at her school. She received a special reward from His Majesty the late King Bhumibol for her volunteering work.
Fund Isaan met Petch in 2017 when he was 16. He was studying Business Computer in his fourth year of secondary school at Prasat Industrial and Community Education College.
Fund Isaan granted Joy a scholarship when she was 19 and studying Office Management in her first year of high certificate at Surin Vocational College.
Joy is part of a family of three; her grandmother, her younger step-sister and Joy. They live in a house of an aunt in Surin city. Her parents divorced many years ago. Her father got remarried and has another child with his second wife. He lives in another province and never supported his daughter.
A touching thank you message from Nu;
“Thank you Mr. and Mrs. Raicher, for your investment in students like myself and in our Isaan region, you allowed me to focus on the most important aspect in life: learning. I hope that one day I will be able to help my siblings and others achieve their goals, like you’ve helped me. Continuing my studies would not have been possible without the generous support from you. Thank you for making this possible. ”
Click here to follow the lives of our Fund Isaan volunteers; Ellen Van Boven and Melanie Buchmann. Learn more about their journey and teaching experiences at schools in the rural Isaan region!
Over the last two months, Fund Isaan contacted all its active scholarship students, to get an update and to pay their scholarships for the second semester 2019/2020.
All but two of our students are on track to achieve their goals. Two students are on a sabbatical year to prepare for the next entrance exams to university.