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Project Managers: George and Pranee Dunbar

Nakorn Ratchasima, Thailand
 Esahn Family Assistance

Project No: P26
Project Managers: George and Pranee Dunbar

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Esahn Family Assistance operates in the North East of Thailand, having established long-term and on-going community services projects including:

  • Drug Awareness and Motivational Seminars in schools, combating the drug problem among the youth.
  • Counseling “street girls” who have been rescued from lives of forced prostitution
  • Counseling boys at a juvenile delinquent center, preparing them for re-entry into society, including teaching them English and music skills.
  • Teach English to the blind and underprivileged.
  • Providing food and other aid to underprivileged children who live in one of the main slum areas of the city.
  • Distribute educational literature and audio-visual tools, as well as provide advice to parents regarding the upbringing of their children.
  • Perform benefit performances for old folks’ homes.

Leadership Training at Juvenile Delinquent Centers

Esahn Family Assistance conducts a Leadership Training course at different institutions for young people, where many of the patrons may be natural born leaders, but often have just never been pointed in the right direction with their talents.


Fa giving a set of English learning books to
each of the boys that she teaches weekly
at the “Boys’ Juvenile Delinquent Center”
in Nakorn Ratchasima, Thailand.

George with 2 of the girls from the
“Rehabilitation Center for Girls”
in Korat, Thailand where we did a free
English Camp for about 70 of the girls.

Institutions where we teach the Leadership Training course range from poorer provincial schools, to Juvenile Delinquent Centers for boys, and Rehabilitation Centers for Girls.


George donating 2 brand new guitars to the
boys at a Juvenile Delinquent Center.

George and Pranee teaching English through
music to girls at Rehab Center.

Many of these young people have tremendous potential, despite the fact they originate from broken homes and/or underprivileged families.


Personal guitar class with 2 boys at Juvenile
Delinquent Center in Nakorn Ratchasima.


George teaching music class to the boys at the
Juvenile Delinquent Center.


George singing with the boys at their
graduation ceremony from the Center.


Pranee counseling young juvenile delinquent
boys at the Center.

Free English Language Classes


Pranee, Lita and Becky teaching some
students at one of our English Camps.

Pranee with 2 very sweet and interested
students during a break in the action.

Esahn Family Assistance hosts free English Camps enabling poorer children a foreign-language-learning opportunity, which enhances their potential for the future. For example if they have a knowledge of the English language, it will expand their job possibilities.


George (on guitar) and Fa (co-worker) get
teachers involved in learning English as
students enjoy watching.

George leading a musical inspiration to teach
the children English at an English Camp in
Khao Yai, Thailand.

Becky (13) of George and Pranee making
friends with and giving some individual tips
to some of the students.

George helping a young student learn the
words to a song at one of the
English Camps.

George helping a young student learn the
words to a song at one of the
English Camps.

Pranee teaching the kids English via song
at one of the English Camps in the Nakorn
Ratchasima area.

Marianne (18) and Jenny (16) teaching the
students a dance at the English Camp.

Using fun game of “Twister” to teach English:
colors, directions, and body parts.

Pranee giving a short “class” to the Principal
and teachers of a poor school where we
conducted one of our “English Camp/Youth
Leadership Training” sessions.

George and Pranee receiving an appreciation
gift from the Principal of a school where they
did a free 3-day English Camp in
Na Klang, Thailand.

Counseling Former Street Girls


Pranee counseling "street girls" who have
escaped lives of forced prostitution in Thailand,
who learn skills that can help them get jobs.


We also impart spiritual and moral values to these
former "street girls", as they get their lives back
together and re-enter society.

Drug Awareness and Motivational Seminars
George and Pranee's children are also part of their work, shown here performing in Khon Kaen,
Thailand to help raise awareness about the dangers of drugs.

Our Work with the Special Olympics


George with a staff overseer and some of
the deaf children who participated in the
“Special Olympics” held in northeast Thailand.

Receiving a Thank You Certificate
from one of the overseers of the “Special
Olympics” in Nong Bua Lamphu, Thailand.

George and Pranee standing with kids in
front of vanload of food that Esahn Family
Assistance provided for the Special Olympics.

With Peter, a friend, presenting
5 big boxes of donated cookies to the Special
Olympics staff and children in Udorn Thani.

A treat for of ice cream
cones for mentally handicapped kids
taking part in the Special Olympics.

George and son, Matthew (15) unloading
450 meals for the participants and staff
at the Special Olympics.

One of the mentally handicapped
girls from Laos who took part in the “Special
Olympics” in Nong Bua Lamphu.

A participant

in the “Special Olympics” sports and games
held in Nong Bua Lamphu.

Decorating a medal on one of the
participants of the “Special Olympics”
in Udorn Thani.

Eshan Family Assistance team with some
of the food that they got sponsored
for the event.

Disseminating Educational Tools

Donating educational equipment and tools to poor and very needy up-country schools.


Some of the kids with new toys and educational equipment we've been able to help supply, in co-sponsorship with Thai business leaders.


Pranee and some of her older children staff a
3-day "English Camp" for several hundred
children in the Nakorn Ratchasima area.

Food and other Aid to the Disadvantaged


George with Khun Prapasee, overseer of
Juvenile Delinquent Center, and boys
receiving 30 pairs of shoes.

Pranee donating some new shirts and
other clothes to some of the boys in
Nakorn Ratchasima, Thailand.


Mayuree donating toys to the "Soon Patfar Deb",
a center for slumchildren in Nakorn
Ratchasima, Thailand.


Kannika, daughter of George and Pranee,
and Mayuree, with children they teach at this
children's center.


Pranee and son Pornthep loading packets
of meals to be donated to mentally-
handicapped children.


Virachai, George and Pranee's 3rd son,
distributing milk to some students
at a very poor up-country school.


Pranee delivering boxes of clothes to
the girls at the "Re-habilitation Center
for Street Girls".


Pranee and team delivering boxes of clothes
to the Home for the Aged in Nakorn
Ratchasima.


Noppol delivering donated paint, foodstuffs,
and educational equipment to a Buddhist
Monk at a center for underprivileged
children in Buriram, Thailand.


George delivering food and other humanitarian
aid to a poor school in Pak Tong Chai, and for
the Association for the Blind in Nakorn
Ratchasima, Thailand.

Coordinating Charitable Efforts

We are sometimes approached by donors looking for a good investment for their charitable donation. For example, recently a ladies group asked us to help them find a good cause.

So we recommended the construction of a simple cafeteria at an extremely poor school about 30 kilometers from here. Prior to this, the children had had no place to eat their lunch so they ended up just sitting around on the ground or any spot they could find on the school premises.

The school administration officials who we spoke with confirmed this as their greatest need. So the donors visited and we undertook coordinating the construction, locating the best price for all the materials needed, co-ordinating the different phases of the construction, as well as visiting the construction site while the work was underway to make sure that everything was going well.