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\nIt is a side of Bangkok that tourists seldom see: not far from the Buddhist temples, glitzy malls and go-go bars, is a neighbourhood of shacks and squat homes in narrow alleys with open gutters in the city's oldest and largest slum....\nIt is a side of Bangkok that tourists seldom see: not far from the Buddhist temples, glitzy malls and go-go bars, is a neighbourhood of shacks and squat homes in narrow alleys with open gutters in the city's oldest and largest slum. Klong Toey is home to about 100,000 people, mostly rural migrants from northern Thailand who came to the city for jobs. \"The number of people living here has doubled since the time I was a kid - yet their condition is not that much better,\" she said in an interview at her Duang Prateep Foundation in Klong Toey. Prateep's father was a fisherman who came to Thailand from China. With no birth certificate, Prateep was denied admission in the public school nearby, and went to a private school for four years. She had to drop out at age 12 when her parents could not afford to pay the fees, and she had to begin working. \"So many of the children who were working could not read or write; even many of the grown-ups could not read. I did not want to be like them, and work in the harbour all my life,\" she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. \"But I also wanted to help them. If there was an accident, they had nothing to fall back on, there was no support.\" To supplement her income, she and her sister began minding neighbours' children while they worked. In the space below their home, Prateep and her sister kept the children engaged by teaching them songs and the alphabet. They charged one baht per child, the equivalent today of about 5 U.S. cents. Soon, dozens of children came to the One Baht School, as it came to be known. It was their only option as most schools refused to enroll them because they did not have birth certificates, Prateep said. Read the full story on The Thomson Reuters Foundation acts to promote the highest standards in journalism and spread the practice of legal pro bono worldwide. The organisation runs free services that provide individuals and organisations with vital access to information and services around the globe: free legal assistance to NGOs and social enterprises, editorial coverage of the world’s under-reported news, media development and training, and Trust Conference (). Read our news Learn more Follow us on Twitter or Facebook We welcome all comments that contribute constructively to the debate. We have the right to remove any posting if, in our opinion, your post does not comply with the content standards set out in the Acceptable Use Policy on\n
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