Home after School By Suganya Jinprapat, THAILAND

1. Mrs. Sukanya Jinprapat
Mrs. Janpen Sornchai
Phayathai community, Bangkok,
Thailand
“Home after School”

2. Phayathai community is a slum community. Most
parents work approximately 8-12 hours/day from
08.00 to 20.00 hrs. At the time, the children are back
from school about 4-6 hours, including ends of
semester, children must stay home alone without
parental supervision.

3. Community Board has recognized the importance of
safety of children, they have started “home after
school” activities to ease the burden of parents by
establishing a safe place for children and creating
various activities to develop skills and knowledge
together. The kids have used this free time to good
causes during this period.

4. Objectives •To ensure the safety of children
in the community who are alone
without parental supervision.

5. Methods
1.Community Leaders collect data of
children being alone without adult
supervision during working hours

6. Methods
2. Community Leaders hold the meeting for action
plans, facilitate a venue, seek for speakers or
scholars, and organize activities such as cooking,
sports, homework, snacks, crafts, etc on weekly
basis for children in the community during time after
school and ends of semester.

7. Methods
3.Encourage children for
registration to attend the daily
event. If children do not attend,
community leaders will call
parents individually.
4.There are food and beverages
available for children.

8. Results
1. Children are in places where there are supervisions,
safe, and uninfluenced. This is also to ease the burden
of parents.

9. 2. Children learn various activities and cohabitation.

10. Conclusions
“Home after school” activities can minimize
mingling among children and reduce child injury in
the community who are home alone and are
expanding to other areas in Thailand. With the
effective results from Phayathai community, there
are expansions of this activity to safe community
networks to
•Talad Krieb Sub-district Ayuthaya Province
•Wangsaipoon Sub-district, Pichit Province
•Municipality of Nan, Nan Province as pilots