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and technology.Office of Special Activities is one of Chulabhorn Research Institute’s operating units. Office of Special Activities is in charge of conducting special activities, especially improving quality of life program for poor people by offering accommodation and employment opportunity.
Professor Dr. Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn, The President of the Institute, has established several project to take care of people from different parts of Thailand as following, Chulabhorn Pattana Project for people in the southern part of Thailand, Red Sapphire Project for people in the eastern and northeastern part of Thailand and Baan Namsai community in Pang Nga Province. Chulabhorn Pattana Project Floods in Southern Thailand in 1988 constituted one of the worst disasters in the recent history of the country, they caused severe loss of human lives and great damages to infrastructure, settlements, environment, agriculture and fisheries. Four months after the aforementioned disaster, Chulabhorn Research Institute was requested by the Royal Thai Government to co-ordinate activities and carry out the implementation in resettlement, rehabilitation, restoration and management of natural resources and the environment in the worst affected province, Nakorn Sri Thammaraj. Four projects were established as follows : - Chulabhorn Pattana I Village - Chulabhorn Pattana II Village - Chulabhorn Pattana III Village - Chulabhorn Pattana IV Village