Friday, February 20, 2015

Nutrition? Program

    Every morning a truck delivers a special cargo to every school in Thailand.  Ostensibly a nutrition program it delivers a bun, individually wrapped in plastic, for every student provided by the Thai government  The bun is at best wonder bread quality with raisins backed in some and sausages in others.
   Mid-morning two or three students go through all the classrooms handing out the buns.  Not only are those students missing their class, the distribution is a significant disruption of the class in which they are distributing.
   Bread is not big in Thailand.  Go to a super market and their will be aisles filled with a huge variety of rice.  Bread will occupy a small shelf or tow.
   Who made the decision to do this?  Why bread?  Why individually wrapped buns?  Why white bread?  Who has the concession?  Why distribute in class when the buns aren't eaten until lunch?
Flowers by the house

Skeleton house, abandoned after the big flood in 2011, behind a banana tree

Spirit house for the spirits disturbed when the 'people' house was built

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