HRH Princess Sirindhorn visits Bhutan

Bhutan's Princess Sonam Dechan Wangchuck received her at the Paro International Airport. 

 

Princess Sirindhorn will receive an audience with Bhutan's King and The Fourth Druk Gyalpo today. She will also light butter lamps at the Kuenrey (central chapel) of Trashichhodzong in between the audience programmes. Bhutan's royal couple will host a private dinner at Lingkana Palace. 

 

The Thai princess visited Kyichu Monastery in Paro and viewed Taktshang from the base of the mountain. 

 

She visited Wanakha Central School (CS) to check on the progress of projects she funded in 2012. She interacted with students and also planted a cypress tree in front of the main school building. 

 

Wanakha CS principal Kinley Jamtsho said that Princess Sirindhorn's support for the agriculture project in the school helped the students greatly. 

 

The school recently upgraded to a middle secondary from a lower secondary school. It is building a poultry shed and mushroom house next to its vegetable garden. 

 

Wanakha CS, Yurung, and Wangbama Middle Second School were the first three schools to implement an agriculture programme with support from Thai princess. The programme was a replica of the “agriculture for school lunch”, a most successful programme in most of the schools across the country. 

 

Princess Sinrindhorn will also visit Samtengang CS in Wangdue and Wangbama CS, Thimphu during her visit. 

 

Born in 1955, HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn is one of the four daughters of Thailand's beloved monarch King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit.

 

She obtained a Master of Arts in Oriental Epigraphy (Sanskrit and Cambodian) from Silpakorn University in 1978, and a Master of Arts in Pali and Sanskrit from Chulalongkorn University in 1980. She holds a Phd in Development Education, an inter-disciplinary degree for her professional development at Srinakarinwirot University. 

 

The princess founded the HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Charity Fund to support projects that improve people's lives including programmes that relieve victims of catastrophe.

 

For her humanitarian works both within and outside Thailand, she received numerous awards and recognitions. His Majesty the King of Thailand also conferred the Orders of the Kingdom of Thailand for her services and received the Orders of Other Nations in recognition of her contributions to relations between nations.