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The Lue Amnart district school director Niyom Rakphrom led Daily Xpress to visit Saichol Suwamart, 45, who suffered from extensive breast cancer at her home where she lived with her two daughters Thanont, 18, and Wimol, 16. Thanont said her parents had divorced, since her younger sister was only three, leaving her mother to take care of the kids on her own.

Early this year, Saichol was diagnosed of extensive breast cancer and all their savings were spent on the treatments, Thanont said, so Thanont had to get odd jobs, earning about Bt60 a day to support the family and her ailing mother.

Niyom said that Thanont was very poor but her academic ability was outstanding with the GPA of 3.9. He also praised her an a grateful child, travelling back and forth from school to home during the lunch break to feed her mother and working in afterschool hours to support her family. The school also allowed her to sell cosmetics to her peers to earn some more income, he said urging the kind-hearted persons to support this poor family.

The Nation