Thailand’s Department of Social Development and Welfare’s Viengping Home is looking for 20 families to join its foster home project.

The home’s superintendent head, Jiraporn Chaoprayoon Yamamoto said the home, covering 17 northern provinces, has in its care 580 children and youths, who were abandoned since birth, or whose parents were in prison or were so poor they couldn’t take care of them.

Department chief Pakorn Phanthu said the 10yearold project aimed to provide a better environment for children to grow up amid family love and warmth. The department will provide a monthly allowance of Bt2,000 per family along with commodities such as milk powder, clothes, and tuition fees.

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