#antipoverty

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Prateep Ungsongtham Hata was born in 1952 in Bangkok, Thailand. Born to an impoverished family on the slums of Bangkok, Hata worked from a young age and had to drop out of school at the age of ten. When she was 16, she started her own school, where she taught reading, writing, and basic math in a single room in her family home. After just a month, there were 60 students. With both public and private support, Hata built the Pattana Village Community School, which grew to enroll over 600 children in grades one through six. In 1978, she won the Ramon Magsaysay Award, and used the prize money to establish the Duang Prateep Foundation. The foundation has supported a variety of programs for the inhabitants of slums, including special education for the hard of hearing, an AIDS project, and a lunch and nutrition program. The foundation also worked on COVID-19 relief in Thailand. In 2004, Hata won the World Children's Prize. In 2021, she received the Order of the Rising Sun from the Japanese government.

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