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Ngarmchit Purachatra

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Interested in traditional craft, she founded the Asian Handicraft Promotion and Development Association in 1981, which was as local partner organization with UNESCO. She was also engaged in other rural development projects. Furthermore, she donated to scholars of buddhist faith, but also participated
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and was briefly Minister of Economic Affairs in 1937. A supporter of the Japanese cause, he lived from 1940 in his Japan exile, where he wrote a book about his country of origin.
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When her husband Prem Purachatra was appointed as ambassador to various countries between 1968 and 1975, Ngarmchit followed him to these posts, abandoning her work for the
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Her mother was Sawat Asavananda. Ngarmchit Sarasas had one elder brother, and three younger sisters. She attended schools in
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in France, when her father served there at the Thai embassy. During this time, she learned French, English and Spanish.
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Her birth name has been transliterated as Ngamchitti, Ngarmchit or Ngarm Jittra. She was the daughter of
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in 1959, which was representing Thai women in the international umbrella organization, the
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From 1943 onwards, she was engaged in various social organisations, among them the
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Several foundations she set up in her name are still continuing her work.
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in Muslim and Christian welfare activities. In the first few years of the
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She died hospitalized in 1983, surviving her husband by two years.
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In 1939, she returned to Thailand because of the outbreak of
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Bangkok
Siam
Bangkok
Prince Prem Purachatra
Phra Sarasat Phonla Khan
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Siamese revolution of 1932
Bangkok
Sorbonne
World War II
Prem Purachatra
Chulalongkorn
Purachatra Jayakara
Standard
Red Cross Volunteers
YWCA
SOS Children Foundation
National Council of Women of Thailand
International Council of Women
Cambodian–Vietnamese War
Vietnamese border raids in Thailand
Order of Chula Chom Klao
Order of the Crown of Thailand
Order of the White Elephant
Baht
Thai
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