Suan Nguen Mee Ma Company
- Garden of Fruition

"Sustainable Community Venture"

Wallapa Kuntiranont and Hans van Willenswaard
Suan Nguen Mee Ma Co., Ltd.
113-115 Fuang Nakorn Rd, (Opposite Wat Rajabopit)
Bangkok, Siam (Thailand) 10200.
Tel. (66-2) 222-5698 or (66-2) 622-0955.
Fax. (66-2) 225-9540.
E-mail : [email protected]
E-mail : Wallapa Kuntiranont : [email protected]
E-mail : Hans van Willenswaard : [email protected]
Website : http://www.suan-spirit.com

Suan Nguen Mee Ma was the name of the land in Klongsan, Bangkok that belonged to Ajarn Sulak's mother and became the home of SEM, Seeds of Peace and several NGOs. Now it is taking on a new identity as a sustainable community business venture. Having been involved with NGOs for many years, we have realised that the more we get involved with communities, villagers, and socio-economic development, the more we need income generating activities to facilitate this involvement and our contributions. Our activities cannot only rely on fund-raising. That is why this year we have come up with the plan to set-up a social business venture to help support both our activities and underprivileged people threatened by loss of livelihood. To that end we established co-operation with like-minded friends, social activists, business persons and villagers in order to promote and co-create a sustainable market and socially responsible business network.

During the first three years Suan Company will concentrate on establishing a strong co-operative relationship with its core groups. From this position it will gradually reach out to a wider circle of client-systems.

Suan Company will emphases common interests, challenges and common motivation among these groups. Its central value is "Right Livelihood".

Our purposes are as follows:

1. To sell, distribute indigenous and village products, and explore new consumer markets for products of craftsmanship. To contribute to the development of associations between producers and consumers, focusing on fair trade while honouring local wisdom. Creative Shops will be the platform for a great variety of community products from villagers and indigenous people of different cultures as Pak Moon ("Assembly of the Poor"), Karen and Tibetan.
   
   
2. To publish supporting literature and produce educational materials in order to promote new ideas and practices for sustainability and human centred education. To offer a diversity of views on new paradigms and subsequent implementation in some fields:
   
   • sustainable business management
     
   • alternative education
     
   • lifestyle, Engaged Buddhism, health and indigenous culture, especially from Tibet
     
   • media and technology for social transformation
     
     
3. To organise events, vocational training and product development; training in business development skills; and consultancy. A diversity of activities will be organised such as: training, conferences, workshops, study trips, eco-tours, edu-tours and social development program visits for people inside and outside the country.

One of our purposes is to raise awareness of consumers and producers towards these business activities. We will help promote and campaign the venture of social responsibility for our individual growth, the earth, and our communities. We would like to set an example so that people feel more encouraged to enter into this kind of business. This activity will hopefully attract the support of donors who intend to provide scholarships for the training of villagers, vocational training, and product development.

Programs

The following are three programmes organised by the Suan Ngen Mee Ma Company, please download the schedule and registration form for any program you are interested in. For further information please contact the Suan Gnen Mee Ma company (address below).

• Education Tour
  19^th - 24^th November, 2001
  Pak Moon Dam, Ubonratchathani Province
  EduTour-Schedule.doc (21KB MS Word Document)
  EduTour-Schedule.pdf (7KB Adobe Acrobat PDF)
  
  
• Alternative Education: Its role in transforming society.
  26^th November - 1^st December, 2001
  Children's Village School - Moo Baan Dek, Kanchanaburi, Siam (Thailand)
  AE-Schedule.doc (35KB MS Word Document)
  AE-Schedule.pdf (15KB Adobe Acrobat PDF)
  
  
• Symposium - Holistic Education and Sciences.
  2^nd - 3^rd December 2001
  Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
  Symposium-Schedule.doc (23KB MS Word Document)
  Symposium-Schedule.pdf (13KB Adobe Acrobat PDF)
  
  
• REGISTRATION FORM
  For the above programmes.
  RegForm.doc (23KB MS Word Document)
  RegForm.pdf (13KB Adobe Acrobat PDF)
  
  

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