{"id":6399,"date":"2021-03-17T10:39:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T03:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/?p=6399"},"modified":"2021-09-16T16:21:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T09:21:52","slug":"rebuilding-futures-in-chiang-mai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/rebuilding-futures-in-chiang-mai\/","title":{"rendered":"(Re)Building Futures in Chiang Mai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Peuan-Peuan-621087658019692\">Peuan Peuan (Friends-International Thailand) <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/futuresbangkok\/\">Futures Bangkok<\/a> teamed up with local NGO&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/epdf.or.th\">\u2018Ethnic People Development Foundation\u2019<\/a> to support two teenagers, *Pi Chan &amp; *Pi Na (not related) in re-building their futures.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pi Chan &amp; Pi Na had to drop out of school because their family could not not afford to send them to school anymore. They came to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/futuresbangkok\/\">Futures Bangkok <\/a>and shared their dream of owning their own motorcycle repair shop one day. They want to learn and develop the knowledge and skills they need to make that dream come true.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_8965-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_8965-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_8965-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_8965-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG_8965.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>&#8216;Busy at work&#8217; <em>Photo supplied by Peuan Peuan (Friends-International Thailand<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Peuan-Peuan-621087658019692\">Futures Thailand<\/a> connected with <a href=\"https:\/\/epdf.or.th\">Ethnic People Development Foundation<\/a> to support Pi Chan and Pi Na in starting their vocational training. They were provided with uniforms, daily transportation and a food budget so that they can go to learn without interruption. They are now in their first month of motorbike mechanic vocational training with a partner motorbike repair shop around their neighborhood and will be in training for 3-5 months. These young men are so excited at this opportunity.<em> &#8216;We&#8217;re going to try hard and do our best to make our dreams come true!&#8217; they told us.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*Names changed to protect privacy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peuan Peuan (Friends-International Thailand) and Futures Bangkok teamed up with local NGO&nbsp; \u2018Ethnic People Development Foundation\u2019 to support two teenagers, *Pi Chan &amp; *Pi Na (not related) in re-building their futures.&nbsp; Pi Chan &amp;&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[609,695,34,8,10],"tags":[425],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6399"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6399"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6488,"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6399\/revisions\/6488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friends-international.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}