Abstract
This project was aimed to provide workshop session recordings on green volunteering activities of students in one disadvantaged area under the bridge of zone 1, Pracha-Utit Road 76, Toong-kru District, Bangkok where the majority worked as itinerant junk buyers. Therefore, the students held workshop sessions with the aim to provide training on how to repair electrical appliances and engines so that the community members could use this knowledge to increase the value of the unwanted electrical appliances they bought. The project also discussed the risk and danger of certain junk product which might be mixed with rubbish and taught how to classify recyclable products to increase the value of the junk. This project was the first of its own and it was done as green volunteering activities of students. The research team has provided 182 families from the community under the bridge of zone 1 with a number of workshop sessions. The sampling group was chosen out of those who attended at least three times and there were 20 persons. The research results showed that the sampling group achieved high level of knowledge (100.0%). They could fix fans as well as repair and maintain engines. They could classify junk. They expressed high level of satisfaction towards the workshop sessions (mean score of 4.18 with S.D. of 0.27). When the assessment was conducted as regards the operation and the recordings on green volunteering activities of 13 students, it was at the highest level (mean score of 4.68 with S.D. of 0.42). This workshop project was the first runner-up of the national SCB Challenge 2012 Community Project as organized by Siam Commercial Bank PLC.
Highlights
The communities under the bridge in many parts of Bangkok are places where many homeless lived
The majority of people or over 70% of them work as itinerant junk buyers, in other words, they buy and collect unwanted or faulty electrical appliances, litter, empty plastic bottles, paper and the like and they classify and sell them later
The working group proposed to hold workshop sessions about green volunteering activities entitled “Good-Hearted Vocation Teacher to Support Itinerant Junk Buyers” to offer training sessions on repairing electrical appliances and engines so that the community members could apply this knowledge to their profession, namely buying unwanted or faulty products
Summary
The communities under the bridge in many parts of Bangkok are places where many homeless lived. The working group proposed to hold workshop sessions about green volunteering activities entitled “Good-Hearted Vocation Teacher to Support Itinerant Junk Buyers” to offer training sessions on repairing electrical appliances and engines so that the community members could apply this knowledge to their profession, namely buying unwanted or faulty products. They could fix faulty products to sell with more value and maintain their saleng or pedal cart to reduce the maintenance cost. The working group hopes that the knowledge about repairing appliances and maintaining engines as well as understanding about safety and rubbish classification will meet the needs of the community so that their life conditions are of better quality
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