ZAKAT FOR THE ORPHANS IN THE DEEP SOUTH OF THAILAND

Abstract

In the past nine years ,the violence situation has spiked in the Deep South Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat provinces see Figure 1 and parts Songkla province Nathawi, Sabayoi, Chana, and Thepa districts see Figure 1 . The population of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala provinces is approximately 1.8 million, of whom about 80 per cent are Malay Muslims. Many speak the Patani Malay dialect, known in Thai as Yawi. Since January 2004, the violence situation occurred these provinces ; more than 3,000 people have died and more than 5,000 have been injured. Jagan, 2008. There are some violence situation in the Deep South during nine years: bombing, burning and damaging schools, killing teachers and shooting the school bus, which affected the mental health of children who have witness the brutal starting of the people in the community; some children lost their parents and some children are injured; some of them are afraid to go to school and go outside to play and dare not create relations with anybody Hope Learn Pattani 2011.