In Thailand, since 1980, Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn initiated Agriculture for School Lunch Project to increase food production in order to improve the quality and frequency of school lunches. This is important not only to lower dropout rates but also for combating malnutrition among school children and thus facilitate their learning. This project has served 48,176 children attending 478 schools in 41 out of 76 provinces in Thailand.
A similar project has also been started in Indonesia for socio economically disadvantaged school children. Scholarship was also given to students at the higher education level. High school students with exemplary record were given scholarships and exempted from university entrance test. Scholars, mostly those coming from the provinces and remote areas were also offered dormitories free of charge. At the primary and secondary levels, there are also initiatives on providing dormitory for poor students who are living far from the schools.