This year Save the Children Thailand Country Office held a Race for Survival on 10 August 2015, where selected students from BMA schools raced to raise their voices to the local government on road safety.
Seeing most children coming to the school on motorcycles without helmets worried her. She realizes that children using motorcycles as the main transportation from home to school are at risk.
Child representatives from six schools in the BMA will be attending Save the Children’s “Race for Survival” in order to reinforce the importance of helmet wearing to increase child survival at Bang Chak (Komolprasert-utid) School, Bangkok.
Abdul*, 11, a migrant boy at sea, has been looked after at the Phang Nga Shelter, in southern Thailand, for six months after being rescued from traffickers who kidnapped him for ransom and put him on a migrants’ boat by force.
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