New life's youth join the Buddhist Lent

11 July 2011. The New Life Project of the Duang Prateep Foundation (DPF) is supporting traditional Buddhist practice by granting 6 youths in the Project 3 months’ leave in order to be ordained as Buddhist monks.  Mrs. Prateep Ungsongtham Hata, Secretary General of the DPF and Mrs. Mingporn Ungsongtham, Deputy Chairperson of the Foundation, hosted a ceremony for the youths at Wat Baan Doul, Lamea District, Chumporn province at the start of Buddhist Lent. After the ceremony, the newly-ordained monks will be confined at the Bodhi Mak monastery until the end of the rainy season. The ceremony attracted the youths’ families and relatives who participated in this important function with happiness and joy.