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Scholarship Program
Besides these projects, Samsara provides scholarships for individual Hill Tribe children who have promising school results, but who do not have the means to continue their study after middle school.
In addition to our regular high school and vocational school scholarships; as of June 2009, Samsara Donors sponsor also college and university students.

Carl Samuels, American and Tony Kid, British manage Samsara's Scholarship Program. They are volunteers and live in Chiangmai.

Cooperation with the Local Community
Annelie Hendriks, Dutch and Ratana Keunkeaw, a Thai citizen, manage the Capital Projects Program. They work in close collaboration with the Department of Education in Mae Sariang District and the directors of the schools involved. Their work is also done on a voluntary basis so the project overhead costs are kept at a minimum.

It is Samsara's philosophy to seek and actively promote the participation of the community. Villagers therefore do most of the construction work voluntarily. Many of them are parents of the schoolchildren. This contributes to a better relationship between the school and the village, and ensures support for education of the children by the community.

Results

Since 2002 Samsara Foundation has realized at mountains schools in the Northwest of Thailand the following projects:

65 school dormitories, 44 school canteens, 6 school libraries, 27 cement rainwater collecting tanks, 28 toilet buildings, for 99 schools clean water installations, for 60 schools books, for 81 schools furniture and small facilities, for 100 schools medicines and for 40 schools teaching materials for children with special needs. At 28 schools Samsara installed solar-power generated energy projects to receive school television and 3 schools received solar power generated energy for electricity at the whole school.

Furthermore Samsara provided for 250 students a 3-year scholarship.