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Female volunteers trained to help Thais overseas

BANGKOK, July 13 (TNA) - The Ministry of Social Development and Human Security has trained female Thai volunteers from 10 countries so that they can help compatriots suffering mainly from family and health problems in the foreign countries. Social Development and Human Security Minister Police General Adul Sangsingkeo opened the training in Bangkok on Monday, in which 58 female Thai volunteers from France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Norway, Germany, Italy, Sweden, the United States and Japan participated. The minister said that the trained Thai volunteers could offer immediate assistance to Thai nationals living in the foreign countries, far away from relatives in their homeland. According to the minister, his ministry's Department of Women's Affairs and Family Development and the Ministry of Public Health's Department of Mental Health have jointly organized the training since 2012, with trainees having learned about counselling skills and immediate assistance for the expected mission. The minister noted that assistance is also available through the www.yingthai.net website with the growing number of people benefiting from it. A participating head of a Thai people's network in Japan, Weerin Takeda, told journalists that most problems of Thai people in Japan are divorces, child upbringing and illnesses, attributing divorces to different cultures, spending habits and miscommunication. Monday's training addressed solutions to divorces, the upbringing of teenage children and experiences of human-trafficking victims. (TNA)

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