On 23 December 2025 at 9:30 a.m., Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn graciously visited to follow up on the progress of royal initiative projects at Chaloem Phra Kiat Border Patrol Police School Commemorating the 7th Cycle Birthday Anniversary (Ban Phae), Tak Province, Mae Ramat District, Tak Province. This marked her seventh visit to the school and her 1,137th visit to Border Patrol Police schools nationwide.
The school, established in 1981, provides education from kindergarten through Grade 6. It currently has 13 teachers and educational personnel and serves 167 students.
On this occasion, Her Royal Highness graciously presented supplies and educational equipment to the school principal and student representatives, as well as fruit tree saplings and winter blankets to representatives of the local community. She also granted an audience to 13 students under royal patronage who are currently pursuing secondary and higher education, allowing them to report on their academic progress, most of whom have achieved excellent results.
A total of 14 students under royal patronage have already graduated. Among them, several were graciously selected and appointed as civil servant teachers and have returned to serve in educational institutions in Tak Province, playing an important role in the development of their local communities.
Her Royal Highness observed various school activities, including the infirmary, library, and student cooperative activities that promote skills in shop management, savings, and basic accounting. In vocational training activities, students practiced haircutting services for fellow students and community members, as well as weaving and embroidery, providing them with foundational occupational skills.
On this occasion, Her Royal Highness also observed iodine deficiency disorder control activities. The school operates an iodine pavilion that provides drinking water mixed with iodine solution, with each student receiving one glass daily to prevent goiter. For kindergarten students, activities were organized to develop skills through creating artworks from dried leaves, enhancing fine motor skills, concentration, observation, and creative expression.
Regarding the School Lunch Agriculture Project, students engaged in hands-on environmentally friendly farming practices, including vegetable cultivation, mushroom farming, fruit tree planting, and animal husbandry such as raising laying hens, pigs, and fish. The produce is used in preparing school lunches. Students also practiced agricultural product processing, transforming bananas into banana chips and sun-dried bananas using solar energy.The project has also been extended to the community, with the school supporting the distribution of spinach seedlings and mango saplings, as well as piglets, to local people.
On this occasion, Her Royal Highness graciously met with local people and visited the Royal Medical and Dental Units from Mae Ramat Hospital and the Faculty of Dentistry, Mahidol University, which jointly provided medical treatment and dental services to students and members of the public in the area.
