Sievert has donated a dormitory for 500 girls in Wat Sa Kaew

Wat Sa Kaew is the largest orphanage

in Thailand taking care of 1300 children.

These are some pictures from the inauguration

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Nicely decorated in Thai and Swedish colors. The

dorm is now ready to receive

500 girls.

The honorable guests start to arrive

His excellency Khun Khamthon and the general

manager of the orphanage Mrs. Mayoree.

Mr. Rote Kumpatee ; The assistant director of Public Communication Division of EGAT. EGAT, the Electricity Authority of Thailand, has

donated all architect, design and engineering work.

Formal introduction

Mr. Wiboon Sa-nguan Pong The governor of Ang-Thong Province.

And of course, all the girls

His Excellency starts the cermony

Nine monks will chant blessings

Khun Suree, the major organizer of the project and this event explains who I am and what I have done.

And I try not to blush

His Excellency the Privy Councilor, Air Vice Marshal Khamthon Sintawanon, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen and of course all my friends . . . . . . .

His Excellency thanks me on behalf of the King and the Thai people.

I symbolically give the dormitory to the Thai people

The representative of the king gives the dormitory to the governor of the province.

Mr. Vihaya, the owner of Hatari Electric Company, receives a thank you gift after having donated 52fans to the dormitory.

Dancing interlude (performed by some of the orphans)

Finally

This is how the girls sleep

Each distinguished guest gets to plant a tree

As president of the Student Education Trust, I distribute ten schoolarships to

some of the orphans(www.thaistudentcharity.org)

Mrs. Mayoree gives her thanks on behalf of the orphanage.

A well deserved lunch (sponsored by EGAT)

The next rainy season, this will be a pond

Old dormitories

The event even ended up in a daily newspaper.

Thanks for watching

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