home after school

Mrs. Sukanya Jinprapat

Mrs. Janpen Sornchai

Phayathai community, Bangkok,

Thailand

“Home after School”

Phayathai community is a slum community. Most parents work approximately 8-12 hours/day from

08.00 to 20.00 hrs. At the time, the children are back

from school about 4-6 hours, including ends of

semester, children must stay home alone without parental supervision.

Community Board has recognized the importance of

safety of children, they have started “home after

school” activities to ease the burden of parents by

establishing a safe place for children and creating

various activities to develop skills and knowledge

together. The kids have used this free time to good causes during this period.

Objectives

•To ensure the safety of children

in the community who are alone

without parental supervision.

Methods 1.Community Leaders collect data of

children being alone without adult supervision during working hours

Methods

2. Community Leaders hold the meeting for action

plans, facilitate a venue, seek for speakers or

scholars, and organize activities such as cooking,

sports, homework, snacks, crafts, etc on weekly

basis for children in the community during time after

school and ends of semester.

Methods

3.Encourage children for

registration to attend the daily

event. If children do not attend,

community leaders will call

parents individually.

4.There are food and beverages

available for children.

Results

1. Children are in places where there are supervisions,

safe, and uninfluenced. This is also to ease the burden

of parents.

2. Children learn various activities and cohabitation.

Conclusions

“Home after school” activities can minimize

mingling among children and reduce child injury in

the community who are home alone and are

expanding to other areas in Thailand. With the

effective results from Phayathai community, there

are expansions of this activity to safe community

networks to

•Talad Krieb Sub-district Ayuthaya Province

•Wangsaipoon Sub-district, Pichit Province •Municipality of Nan, Nan Province as pilots