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District Governor Visit - 7 October 2026

District Governor Paya Tharawut, a member of the Rotary Club of Wangchan, is scheduled to make her official visit to our club on Wednesday, 7 October. The meeting will begin at 3:00 p.m. The location will be Chiang Mai SP Hotel. We are very excited to welcome her!

DG Paya Tharawut joined Rotary in September 2012. She served as club secretary 2017-2018 and was president of her club 2018-2019. She has been a part of Rotary District 3360 leadership since 2021-2022 when she served as an assistant governor.

She has an amazing philosophy of service. Dr. Paya Tharawut once stated: "The greatest goal in life is not merely business success. Through life's experiences I have come to realize that what truly matters is creating value, giving and passing on opportunities to society-so that our communities may grow together sustainably". Her words reflect the guiding principle she has followed throughout her life and career: to dedicate her knowledge, experience and capabilities to serving the greater good while continuing to advance her professional responsibilities with commitment and perseverance, contributing to balanced and sustainable development for communities and society as a whole.

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Prevention of Sexual Abuse in Chiang Mai

Project: Anti-Human Trafficking Training by Pongsawart Niyomca and Rotary Club of Chiang Mai Wattana D. 3360 on the topic of How to Avoid Being Trafficked.

Objective: to train the attendants to be aware of human trafficking in the present world and be able to teach other community members to prevent themselves and their loved ones from being trafficked, held on 17 August 2025, at Suandok Community, Chiang Mai for 30 minute training. Participants were Suandok Community Committee and Community Health Volunteer. Number of participants were 36 persons. Output from the training/orientation: the participants learned many things they had never known before. They learned how to prevent themselves from being lured and will be more alert and be closer to their loved ones.

Project: Life skills development to increase youth awareness (Student Planner) by Pongsawart Niyomca and Rotary Club of Chiang Mai Wattana D. 3360 on the topic of Personality Development. Objective: To enable students to learn how to have the appropriate internal and external personality, held on the 1st September 2025, at the Baan Poang School, San Sai District, Chiang Mai Province. There were 132 students attended. Topics of the training were as follows:

1) physical personality (body care and appearance),

2) verbal and communication personality (words and body language),

3) emotional and mental personality (emotional control, stability), and

4) intellectual personality (thinking, analyzing, and decision-making).

Life skills development to increase youth awareness

Story by: Maruek Charnsungnern, Rotary Club of Chiang Mai Wattana / SEATECT

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Sundays at 1:30 PM

RC CM Wattana

139 Nantaram Rd, Tambon Hai Ya
Mueang Chiang Mai
Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai 50100
Thailand

We meet on Zoom on the 2nd Sunday of each month at 1:30 p.m. (UTC+7). On the 4th Sunday of each month we meet at Tulou Restaurant at 12:30 for lunch followed by the meeting. Contact president@rotaryclubchiangmaiwattana.org for your invitation

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Jerry Nelson

We start Rotary Year 2026-2027 as a very small club with huge ambitions. The hope is that we grow our active membership from 7 to 27 and add at least 10 associate members. Associate members must be active members of another club. We also are intent on establishing a sister club relationship with the Rotary Club to End Human Trafficking. We aim to be the first cause based club in Southeast Asia to combat the horrors of human trafficking!

In December we will participate in the Salvation Army's Asia Youth Leadership Summit-Chiang Mai

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Talking reading and Rotary with Dolly Parton

The entertainer and philanthropist Dolly Parton died 25 August 2026. This Q&A was originally published in the March 2010 issue of The Rotarian (now Rotary) magazine. Later that year, she spoke at the Rotary International Convention in Montreal, Canada.