PUBLISHED: 27 Sep 2024 at 19: 31
The Mae Fah Luang Foundation won the SX Shaper Award this year for making significant environmental improvements and promoting community ecology.
In these two circumstances, the award is presented to individuals or organizations that have made outstanding contributions to beneficial change.
Thanphuying Putrie Viravaidya, the foundation’s chairman, expressed her gratitude for receiving the award, saying it reflected the diligent work of all the employees who have made a difference to improving the life conditions of hill tribes.
” Our employees will like this honor. Our excellent collaboration makes sure that the people we work with are benefit the most from generation to generation by passing on these goals to everyone.
In 1972, Her Royal Highness Princess Srinagarindra, the late Princess Family of King Rama IX, established the foundation to enhance people’s quality of life in health, education employment growth and more.
She put a lot of emphasis on “helping individuals help themselves” in order for them to gain independence without relying on freebies.
The base thinks that people are both the trigger and the option to social and environmental issues. As such, it starts with improving human resources and promoting regional societies ‘ empowerment.
According to the foundation, the base has also successfully increased bush area protection to 90 %.
In 2000, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( Unesco ) honoured the princess as a “great personality in public service in the fields of education, applied science, and human, social, and environmental development”.
The foundation’s reduction of greenhouse gas emissions was attributed to a 36 % reduction in energy use and a 44 % reduction in the use of alternative fuels over the previous five years. Its objective is to have no coal emissions by 2065.