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Taking education into their own hands

Some of the books that inspired the ABC Human Rights Poster. Wasin Pathomyok

Many Thai children learn the alphabet by rote memory — A for Ant, B for Boy, C for Cat and so on. But for Wasin Pathomyok and Plengmontra Bubphamas, parents of a two-year-old daughter, they created an A to Z poster using a human rights theme. The idea of the ABC human rights poster came after Wasin and Plengmontra read English children’s books such as A Is For Activist, An ABC of Equality and F For Feminism.

“We purchased several international children’s books which teach A to Z using different themes. It looked fun to learn and we wanted to have more books like that, so my wife Plengmontra suggested we should create one. Before we…

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