60th Anniversary of Rotary Service in Thailand
(1990)
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Issue
Name: |
60th
Anniversary of Rotary Service in Thailand |
Thai
Issue
Name: |
60 ปี
สโมสรโรตารี่ในประเทศไทย |
Issue Date: |
1990/2533-09-17 |
Cause: |
To publicize 60th Anniversary
of Rotary
Service in Thailand |
Catalogue Number: |
1990/17-20 |
Denomination: |
2
Baht, 3 Baht, 6 Baht, 8 Baht |
Unused Value: |
5 Baht, 8 Baht,
12 Baht, 20 Baht |
Complete Set: |
45 Baht (unused), 30 Baht
(used) |
Thailex Collection: |
Unused set |
Size: |
27 x
45 mm |
Quantity
of Stamps: |
2,000,000 pieces for design
1 and 1,000,000 pieces each for designs 2-4 |
Printer: |
Cartor S.A., France |
Subject: |
Various missions and activities that
refer to projects sponsored by the Rotary Club of Thailand, whose logo
is in the bottom right corner of each stamp: 1. Thai farmers wearing a
ngop
(fig.)
and transplanting rice sprouts,
as well as an artificial leg. It refers to the Jaipur Foot Project,
known in Thai as kha thiam (ขาเที่ยม), which aims
at giving aid to disabled people in rural areas by providing prosthetic
legs that are made from polyurethane which is water-resistant and allows for it to be used effectively while being submerged
for long periods in muddy waters, such as those of
rice
paddies. The project is named
after the Jaipur Foot, an inexpensive quick to fit and manufacture
prosthetic leg designed in the northern Indian city of Jaipur (fig.); 2. a mother holding a
child on her arm and a nurse giving an injection in the child's arm,
and a circle with the depiction of a medical worker giving the oral
polio vaccine to a small baby, as well as the Polio Plus logo in blue, i.e. a
globe with two drops of liquid, referring to the Rotary's global effort
to eradicate polio by means of vaccination. It refers to the Polio Plus Immunization Project,
which aims at immunizing children against polio; 3. a Thai school
building with in front the Thai national tricolour, a female teacher at
a whiteboard and two boy students reading books while sitting at a desk.
It refers to the Literacy Project, which introduces special teaching
techniques to eradicate illiteracy from rural areas; 4. a fjord and the
midnight sun, as well as a portrait of King
Chulalongkorn
and his Royal Cipher inscribed
on a large rock at the North
Cape, hand-signed by the King on the
occasion of his 1907 visit
to Norway, during his second trip to Europe, and which today
is the central attraction of the Thai Sala Museum there, which consists
of a
sala
in honour of King
Rama V,
built over the
historical
stone and established
in 1989 with an opening ceremony
presided over by Princess
Sirindhorn.
The
initiative for this project came
from the Thai
Rotary after
a television team in 1986 followed the footsteps of King Chulalongkorn
and showed the stone with the King's initials on television. |
Related Link: |
2012 Rotary International Convention,
Rotary International,
Rotary in Thailand,
rice,
ngop,
Chulalongkorn,
Rama V,
Rama IX,
thong chaht,
Sirindhorn,
sala |
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