The Student Welfare Program
Our main scholarship centres also offer secondary welfare grant programs. The grants are awarded to students who didn’t quite qualify for a full scholarship but still have some ‘one-off’ financial need.
In 2025, we gave 957 grants. Our standard welfare grants are 2,000 Baht for school children, 3,000 Baht for vocational college students, and 5,000 Baht for those at universities. See the Currency Converter for exchange rates.
SET’s welfare grants are always education-related – for school shoes, bus fares, canteen lunch, books and tools, dormitory accommodation, spectacles, etc – but we sometimes give a grant with a higher than usual value if it can be justified. But even a small grant can make an immediate and positive difference to a needy youngster. A grant of 800 Baht will buy a pair of shoes. 1,000 Baht will pay for a uniform or buy the books and tools necessary for the student’s course. A grant of 2,500 Baht will usually pay dormitory rent for a semester.
To receive a grant, students apply directly to their own Welfare Department at the beginning of each semester. They first complete a questionnaire detailing their needs and are then interviewed. Applications are always thoroughly investigated. If satisfied that the need is genuine, welfare officers recommend to SET that a grant should be paid.
In addition to the grants at our main scholarship centres, we also give 2,000 Baht grants to children at rural schools where we do not have a scholarship program. Children at inner-city schools in Nakhon Sawan and at a tiny rural school in a northeastern province receive grants every year, but the number of these extra grants we can give depends on our income from year to year.
