The ASEAN Learning Center celebrated Songkran a day early for students who normally observe the holiday in Burmese, Laotian or Cambodian fashion.
Radchada Chomjinda, director of the Human Help Network Foundation Thailand, benefactor Stephen Smyth and Learning Center executives hosted the Songkran party for the students, who are the children of migrant workers from neighboring countries.
To them, Songkran is the Khmer New Year, Thingyan or simply Pi Mai. Teachers showed them the Thai New Year’s Songkran traditions.
Students bathed a Buddha statue and paid respect to their elders. There also was a painting contest and stage plays that illustrated the Songkran tradition.
