The world will look towards
the Mae Fah Luang Foundation Manual
and the King’s Wisdom
that have been proved a success
in many countries.
The Mae Fah Luang Model
towards Sustainable Development
of the Global Community
From the Science of the King to the Mae Fah Luang model,
shared by mother to son, and by son to mother, towards sustainable
rural development, and today onwards with pride to
the global community.
A total of 193 countries, together with the
United Nations, set the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) 2016-2031, which are an extension
of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
which will end in 2015. The guidelines of these
development goals correspond with those of HRH
the Princess Mother, and what she introduced
28 years ago in the Doi Tung Development Project,
under the auspices of the Mae Fah Luang
Foundation Under Royal Patronage (MFLF). The
experiences learned from from the Doi Tung Development
Project were compiled into a guideline
for sustainable development for better quality of
life, or the “Mae Fah Luang Manual” that sets
a systematic procedure for survival, sufficient
living, and sustainable well-being. His Majesty
the King’s principles of Sufficiency Economy
were also incorporated into the National Agenda
under the present government.
These are some of the things that bring pride
to M.R. Disnadda Diskul, Chairman of the Board
of the Mae Fah Luang Foundation, and all his
staff. M.R. Disnadda recounted the steps leading
to this success, to the point where the MFLF has
been invited to help with sustainable alternative
livelihood development programmes in numerous
countries.
“Our first international venture was in 2002,
when the British government invited the MFLF
to speak in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, in
the country’s first drug conference. The speech
resulted in Mr. Antonio Maria Costa, Executive
Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs
and Crime (UNODC), who was in charge of global
issues on drugs and crime, approaching us to
go and work with him. I said to him, ‘You’ve only
heard me speak, I think you should come and see
what we’ve done.’ I made my speech in July, and
four months later, he was in Thailand. I took him
up to Doi Tung, and explained everything to him.
When he had seen everything, he admitted that
this was a project like no other in the world. This
was the first time that we made an impression in
the international circle.
“This happened at approximately the same
time that Gen. Khin Nyunt, Senior Gen. Than
Shwe, and Gen. Maung Aye, top ranking members
of the Burmese ruling junta, visited Doi Tung