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Published on September 29, 2007

"I never thought I'd be given this great prize and I feel very honoured and delighted. The prize will help my disadvantaged children," Utis Buddhasud Somjai, 44, said yesterday after receiving the award from the Stock Exchange of Thailand Foundation.

The secretary-general of Khon Kaen's Child Help Foundation has run many projects to assist underprivileged children throughout Isaan.

The Beloved Child Home accommodates runaway, abandoned and battered children. The Study Centre provides educational opportunities to primary and secondary students.

Her other initiatives are Mom and Child, an education fund and a sufficiency agriculture scheme.

Utis said there were few organisations rewarding those who do good for society, and the SET was an exemplary model.

Punsak Vejanurug, head of the SET's capital market education committee, said the SET Foundation had allocated Bt12 million to promote social development. Half is for awarding six people performing public service in various development projects, and the other half for foundations selecting those people to carry out their useful activities later.

"This is the first time we have given the award to people helping society," he said.

Wannapa Phetdee

 The Nation