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The Human Development Foundation, a nondenominational community-based field organization, was founded in 1974 in Klong Toey, Bangkok's largest slum, by Father Joe Maier, a Redemptorist Priest, and Sister Maria Chantavarodom, of the Daughters of Queenship of Mary Immaculate. Their first project was a one-baht-per-day kindergarten. Within the next two years, they opened Klong Toey's first outreach health clinic and a shelter for street children. Fires devastated slum neighborhoods, sometimes two or three times a year, and the HDF helped rebuild them.
Over the past 30 years, the foundation has continuously initiated projects to help the poor. When a pilot program worked in one neighborhood, it was expanded to another, and in this way, with a staff of 250 dedicated men and women, the HDF now reaches out to friends in over 30 slum communities.
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