VRU participated in the Integrated Sub-district Economic and Social Upgrading Project (U2T)
1.3 University anti-poverty programmes
1.3.4 Does your university as a body have programmes or initiatives to assist students who fall into the bottom 20% of household income group (or a more tightly defined target) in the country to successfully complete their studies?
Evidence 1
In 2021, VRU participated in the Integrated Sub-district Economic and Social Upgrading Project (U2T). This project aims to create economic recovery at a community level, alleviate poverty and uplift the economy and society in the sub-district through the employment of existing students, new graduates as well as the people in the local area to help develop and improve the local community in the sub-district. This project could raise the economic and social level of each sub-district, leading to poverty reduction. Currently, VRU is responsible for a total of 48 sub-districts. With each sub-district, the university can employ 5 existing students who receive 5,000 baht per month. There are 153 low income VRU students in total, participating in the U2T project.
Figure 1 The students from U2T project
Evidence 3: https://www.facebook.com/474191762680721/posts/3070749169691621/