Osotspa Enhances Sustainable Lifes and Mutually-Beneficial Relationship among Disabled Villagers and Community

Osotspa has supported the disabled under the concept of “teaching a man to fish to feed him for a lifetime” through the job training projects for over three years, focusing on enabling them to live on their own. Now, over 90 disabled persons join the projects. Many of them lost their jobs after being disabled by an accident.

To teach them to fish, Osotspa helps them discover their skills, offers job training and provides essential equipments. The company also helps design the brand logo and packaging, as well as find markets for their products. These supports are initiated with an aim to give them jobs that help them earn a living. Besides the company’s contribution to the set-up of the Organic Farming Model for Disabled Villagers at Ubonrat district, Khon Kaen province, Osotspa provides basketwork and carpenter training. These projects bring an increase of 2,000 to 5,000 Baht in their monthly income. As a result, they have better living quality, become happier and are filled with hope and power to live on.

Aside from happiness and hope of the disabled, it is our pride to see how these projects build the strong and sustainable mutually-beneficial relationship in the communities

Recently, Mr. Thana Chaiprasit, Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee, and Mrs. Wannipa Bhakdibutr, President, Osotspa PCL., presided over the opening of mushroom culture plant of the Organic Farming Model for Disabled Villagers. This mushroom culture plant will supply the organic farm model’s mushroom farm and those of 14 project members. The plant helps lower the cost, while the excess produce sold to the public brings them additional income. The plant produces 20,000 mushroom cultures per month and gains 160,000 Baht monthly. The members of the organic farming center not only deliver mushroom cultures to other farms, they also teach and advise other disabled mushroom farmers of the project.

Our success is far beyond the happiness and better lifes of the disabled who join our projects. It is a delight to see the disabled change from a receiver to a giver by sharing what they have learned and helping others. Khun Lamai, one of the project’s participants, has gained income from selling her crafts. She now offers a basketwork class to teach others in the community. Similarly, the project changes Khun Samarn’s life. After becoming a professional carpenter, who lives on his creative good-quality wooden furnitures, he has donated his works to schools in need and trained others.

Mrs. Wannipa Bhakdibutr, President of Osotspa PCL., said, “Osotspa is pleased to contribute to the enhancement of life quality of the disabled. Furthermore, seeing them teach others to fish and build the mutually-beneficial relationship in their community makes us believe that this project has truly developed sustainability in our society.”