it has become the core of the global United Nations’ sustainable
development agenda for 2015-30. This includes the seventeen sustainable
development goals, unanimously approved by the 193 UN
member countries, at the 70th session of the UN general assembly
in September 2015.
Nowadays visitors at the Royal Villa in Doi Tung stare up at the
beautiful ceiling in the main hall. It contains a handcrafted wooden
inlay of the Princess Mother's favourite constellations. Designed
by the Astronomy Society of Thailand, and fitted with light bulbs
representing the stars in the centre of the ceiling, it shows the
position of the constellations on October 21, 1900, the day the
Princess Mother was born.
However, her favourite studies were not about constellations and
astrology. Her "Copernican revolution" was not about the rotation
of the Earth or the movement of good and bad stars. Rather, her
observatory was her helicopter and her walks among children
of Doi Tung. She focused her eyes, her attention, her heart, her
first glance in the morning from her balcony to a much more
important movement for the Doi Tung hill tribes: she imagined a
new rotation of development around the people and the complete
elimination of slush-and-burn abuse of the forest. For reality at
that time was more that people were considered as "objects of
and for development" instead of becoming true participants in
their own development process. In this way, she encouraged
the staff of her early foundations to focus on a few essential
changes in mind-set.
Her "new orbits" were about how mothers and children should be
safe during birth; how children grow up, how they are educated
and take their future into their hands, how the youth plan and execute
successful production enterprises to earn profit in a manner
based on dignity, without leaving anybody behind. It was about
it has become the core of the global United Nations’ sustainabledevelopment agenda for 2015-30. This includes the seventeen sustainabledevelopment goals, unanimously approved by the 193 UNmember countries, at the 70th session of the UN general assemblyin September 2015.Nowadays visitors at the Royal Villa in Doi Tung stare up at thebeautiful ceiling in the main hall. It contains a handcrafted woodeninlay of the Princess Mother's favourite constellations. Designedby the Astronomy Society of Thailand, and fitted with light bulbsrepresenting the stars in the centre of the ceiling, it shows theposition of the constellations on October 21, 1900, the day thePrincess Mother was born.However, her favourite studies were not about constellations andastrology. Her "Copernican revolution" was not about the rotationof the Earth or the movement of good and bad stars. Rather, herobservatory was her helicopter and her walks among childrenof Doi Tung. She focused her eyes, her attention, her heart, herfirst glance in the morning from her balcony to a much moreimportant movement for the Doi Tung hill tribes: she imagined anew rotation of development around the people and the completeelimination of slush-and-burn abuse of the forest. For reality atthat time was more that people were considered as "objects ofand for development" instead of becoming true participants intheir own development process. In this way, she encouragedthe staff of her early foundations to focus on a few essentialchanges in mind-set.Her "new orbits" were about how mothers and children should besafe during birth; how children grow up, how they are educatedand take their future into their hands, how the youth plan and executesuccessful production enterprises to earn profit in a mannerbased on dignity, without leaving anybody behind. It was about
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