Joy amid hardship
published : 10 May 2021 at 04:30
1 ML Varudh Varavarn, the founder and director of Vin Varavarn Architects, designs affordable micro-houses for low-income families in Klong Toey.
Rusty tin shacks sprawl under high-rises and billboards. Rubbish scatters and floats down the foul-smelling river. Last year, fire broke out near a local mosque. With the third wave of the coronavirus outbreak, the Klong Toey neighbourhood is hanging by a thread.
Naowarat Sayan, 66, has lived in the Klong Toey slum for 40 years. Five members one of them falling sick cram themselves in a dilapidated house with a leaky roof and rickety wall. Thousands are living in what is the oldest and largest ghetto covering 198