Prateep Ungsongtham Hata
Prateep Ungsongtham Hata ( Thai: ประทีป อึ้ง ทรงธรรม ฮา ตะ, pronunciation: [ Prat ʰ î ː p ʔɯŋsoŋt ʰ am ha ː tàʔ ], also known as " Khru Prateep " - ครู ประทีป, teacher Prateep; born August 9, 1952 in Bangkok ) is a Thai social activist and former Senator. She is the Secretary General of the Duang Prateep Foundation.
Life
Prateep was born in a slum in Bangkok's Khlong Toei District. From a young age, she worked hard to support her family and attended night school at the same time. Since illegal slum dwellers get a birth certificate, they can not attend regular school. To give the children a chance, Prateep In 1968, an unofficial slum school in which she taught for 1 baht per day.
When the slum area should be vacated, they brought the case in the news. Prateep reached that a nearby field could be settled and organized the relocation of slum dwellers.
In 1976 she completed her education with a diploma at the Institute Suan Dusit Teacher education in Bangkok.
1978 was awarded for social services Prateep the Ramon Magsaysay Award -. From the money she received, she founded the Duang Prateep Foundation ( DPF) and became its Secretary General. The name Duang Prateep means flame of hope. This is also the symbol of the foundation. The Foundation is committed to the needs of slum dwellers. Prateep became known as Slumengel of Thailand.
In 1980 she has her full-time employment as a teacher abandoned to devote herself to her work as head of the Duang Prateep Foundation. In the same year she was awarded the Rockefeller Youth Award. From the prize money, she founded the Foundation for Slum Child Care
In 1987 she married the Japanese Tatsuya Hata.
In 1992 she became a leader of the democracy movement and participated in the mass protests against the military-backed government of General Suchinda Kraprayoon. In 2000 she was elected to the Senate. There she sat down on a political level for the rights of poor and disadvantaged people.
Queen Silvia of Sweden awarded her 2004 The World 's Children 's Prize for the Rights of the Child.
Prateep supports Founded in 2006, United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship ( " Red Shirts "). During the riots in Bangkok in 2010 it belonged to the moderate wing of the red shirts and looked militant tendencies in the movement with concern.