Bangkok non-profits are turning to food to empower at-risk communities
On an unusually cool and crisp afternoon, a group of children are sitting outside in a perfectly manicured garden, learning English. Sunlight reflects off the hulking, eggshell-white walls and holy basil-green shutters of the 122-year-old Bangkok 1899 building in the Nang Loeng district, framing the children and their teacher. Far removed from the city’s tortuous warrens of concrete and chaos, the setting makes you question—if only for a moment—whether you’ve found paradise. “You see the young girl sitting over there? She’s nine. Her mom is 17 years old and in jail, a...