"Royal Sandalwood Flowers" 🌼💛

🪷 **Nern Sa-nga District Community Development Office: Field visit to Nong Chim Subdistrict, joining women and citizens in crafting "Royal Sandalwood Flowers" with hearts of loyalty 🌼💛**

📅 **Wednesday, 30 September 2026** — Ms. Waruni Duang-song, Nern Sa-nga District Community Development Officer, together with staff of the Nern Sa-nga District Community Development Office, conducted a field visit to **Nong Chim Subdistrict, Nern Sa-nga District, Chaiyaphum Province** to support, advise, and encourage women's groups and local residents in crafting **"Royal Sandalwood Flowers"** to prepare for use in the royal cremation ceremony of **Her Majesty Queen Sirikit, the Queen Mother**

🌼 **Women's Power Unite, Community Strength, Crafted with Dedication**
Women's groups and citizens of Nong Chim Subdistrict joined forces to craft sandalwood flowers with dedication, meticulousness, and attention to every detail, to produce quality work meeting all targets, reflecting the power of unity, sacrifice, and local-level citizen participation

💛 **Doing Good Together with Heart, Grateful for Royal Benevolence**
This sandalwood flower crafting is another activity offering citizens the opportunity to participate in doing good for the community, and to collectively express loyalty and gratitude for royal benevolence, through handicrafts born from community collaboration

🤝 **"Women's Power, Community Power" — A Key Mechanism for Local Development**
This activity also promotes the role of **women and civil society** in organizing, working together, and transferring knowledge among members, building good relationships and strengthening community networks, which form the important foundation of participatory community development

🌱 This activity aligns with the mission of the **Department of Community Development** in promoting citizen participation processes, developing the capacity of leaders and community organizations, and building community strength, aiming for citizens to unite and use their own potential as mechanisms for driving continuous and sustainable local development

🌼💛 **"Women's Power Unite, Community Hearts Join, Crafting Sandalwood Flowers with Hearts of Loyalty"**

🪷 **"Stable Grassroots Economy, Strong Sustainable Community, through Sufficiency Economy Philosophy"** 🪷

**By Ms. Waruni Duang-song, Nern Sa-nga District Community Development Officer, participating in the activity**

Credit **Photo/News: Nern Sa-nga District Community Development Office**