Founder and Director Organization: Development and Education Programme for Daughters and Communities Centre/Greater Mekong Sub-region
Sompop Jantraka was born in southern Thailand in 1957. In 1989, Sompop founded the Daughters Education Programme (DEP), a program to prevent vulnerable girls from being forced into the sex industry by funding their education as the alternative. Since then, DEP has grown into the Development and Education Programme for Daughters and Communities Centre (DEPDC). In 2007, Sompop started the Mekong Youth Net (MYN) programme to focus on developing anti-trafficking programs throughout the Greater Mekong Sub-region, which includes Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar (Burma), Cambodia, and southern China. And In 2017 started the Shan Youth Safety Training to End Risky Migration (SYSTERM) project to Provide basic education and life skills training to at-risk, stateless women and children from the Thailand–Myanmar border and within the Golden Triangle. Sompop and his work at DEPDC had received two Noble Peace Prize nominations, the Raoul Wallenberg Medal UM/USA and the Human Rights Best practice Award from Hope International and Prevent Human Trafficking in Washington D.C. To be named the Reader’s Digest “Hero for Today” in 1996 and Time Magazine’s “Time/Asia Hero of the Year” in 2001. The project to related to the Equitable Education, Sompop and DEPDC got the GWE prize award from the Xiamen China UNESCO in 2007.
At present DEPDC and Sompop still continue working closely with UNESCO education programs for example, migrant learning center, flexible learning program and OOSC (out of school children) along the area of Thailand-Myanmar border.
Sompop Jantraka DEPDC/GMS Founder and Director (1989-2020)
Session Information: Session 5B: Foundational and Soft Skills for Disadvantaged Children and Youth Dr. Nandini Chatterjee, UNESCO MGIEP Dr. Sheldon Shaeffer, Asia-Pacific Regional Network for Early Childhood, Thailand Mr. Sompop Jantraka, Development Education Programme for Daughters and Communities/Greater Mekong Sub-Region, Thailand Moderator: Ms. Thantida Wongprasong, Equitable Education Fund, Thailand Scope: Soft-skills are a combination of many different […]
