Vittaya Yoondorn
Social workers, bureaucrats, teachers and community volunteers
learned about risks faced by Pattaya-area children and how to help
abused and underprivileged kids at a City Hall seminar sponsored by the
World Vision Foundation of Thailand.
Watcharee Wisithikas, director of the Social Development and Human
Stability Ministry’s Children’s Lifestyle Development project led the
June 18 workshop aimed at teaching care providers about children’s
rights and access to social services.
Watcharee Wisithikas,
director of the Social Development and Human Stability Ministry’s
Children’s Lifestyle Development project leads a workshop aimed at
teaching care providers about children’s rights and access to social
services.
Attendees were told Pattaya has large numbers of
youths who are either homeless, orphaned, poor, handicapped, abused or
without legal standing. These children are at higher risk of abuse,
requiring public-service workers to have the training to recognize and
resolve such abuse.
The Pattaya seminar was the first of 29 to be held across the country by
World Vision. The workshop sees participants role-play, evaluate the
needs of high-risk groups, and contribute to a database on child
histories.
A group of Pattaya students ages 5-15 also attended, sitting for
interviews to determine if they faced any parental abuse.
