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Engaging for impact:
communities, employees,
customers

Red Cross-Dow clean drinking Dow English experience
water for schools

Clean drinking water is crucial for the health Mastering the skill of English is crucial for
of children in our communities. Dow, Relief and communication and as an educational tool. Dow
Public Health Bureau and the Thai Red Cross Bureau English experience aims to develop the communi-
installed water filter machines with high-performance cation ability of teachers and children in 14 schools
Reverse Osmosis (RO) water filters for 50 needy in Rayong. In 2019, 170 school children have
schools in Rayong, Chachoengsao, Phra Nakhon participated in classes offer English skills training
Si Ayutthaya, Nakhon Nayok, Nakhon Sawan, under the topics of agriculture and environment.
Kanchanaburi, Sing Buri, Chai Nat, Nakhon Pathom There are also English classes for 280 non-lan-
and Uttaradit. guage teaching teachers. Listening, speaking,
The donation of water filter machines reading and writing skills have been taught and
alone may not be sustainable, so Dow has aligned to the teachers’ assigned subjects. To
trained the school staff and volunteers on help them further develop the English skills, the
maintenance. In addition, data about the clean participants were followed up through the course
water is collected online, so the drinking water of four months.
quality can be maintained up to Ministry of
Public Health standard. The project runs for
five years.
At the end of 2019, 2,880,000 liters of clean
drinking water were provided for 5,549 school
children. The project will continue to be monitored
in the following years.

2019 Dow Thailand Group volunteers

Number of Dow volunteers : 685 Total hours of volunteer work : 5,212

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