On September 14 an award ceremony honouring five villages who have successfully implemented a village based model of sufficiency economy was held at Kantarawichai City Hall.
Deputy Governor of Mahasarakham Mr. Sutthinan Boonmee, MSU Vice President for Personnel Development and University Council Affairs Associate Professor Dr. Thiensak Mekkapan-opas and head of the Sufficiency Economy Project Model Assistant Professor Dr. Cheerasak Charoenpan from MSU Faculty of Public Health were present at the ceremony.
The Sufficiency Economy Model Project has been developed by Mahasarakham University. It is a village model based on the underlying concept of King Bhumibol’s sufficiency economy philosophy and contains three phases spread over three years.
The first phase introduced by the working group two years ago focused on the development of partnerships and networks between the five villages to gain rapport and provide network administration.The second phase introduced last year focused on the development of a sustainable society through strategic planning to strengthen the communities as a whole.
The third phase focuses on strengthening and developing various groups within the community.
Emphasised through all stages of the project are learning efforts, participation and co operation leading to self reliance and the production of a stronger, more efficient community in turn increasing revenue and savings while using less resources and unnecessary expenditure.
Evaluation results showed strong community participation, an eighty five percent satisfaction level in management of the community with increases in revenue and career paths. There are now learning centres set up in each of the five villages which can provide the tools for individual households to adopt the sufficiency economy model.
These villages are now positioned as prototypes based on the concept of the sufficiency economy philosophy and are ready to become centres of learning and experience for surrounding communities.
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