Ban Wang Nok Khai : Strong community funding based on social capital and sufficient economy

Abstract

This research was qualitative research with the objective to study Ban Wang Nok Khai which was the prototype sufficiency economy village of Samut Sakhon Province and received the royal award of happy sufficiency economy village of 2015 in the issues as follows. 1) analysis of social capital existing in the community 2) management of sufficiency economy by integrating agriculture occupation, state of sufficiency economy and existing social capital together and became famous community tourism area and field trip source in many aspects including sufficiency economy, biological agriculture occupation and fertilizing soil management center. In the study, there was documentation study, and the data were collected from the field trip study by using field trip survey and in-depth interview in the number of 20 people.

          From the research, it was found that Ban Wang Nok Khai consisted of social capital in 7 aspects as follows. 1. spiritual capital on local gratitude system 2. Intelligent social capital 3. Human resource social capital 4. Natural resource social capital 5. wealth capital 6. reciprocation capital 7. joint benefit capital These social capitals made community to live together like relatives. They had love, harmony, compromise by having community leader in the village with ability, understanding the community by being the leader of change by using the philosophy of sufficiency economy with this community under the condition knowledge and virtue. Moreover, the fact that Ban Wang Nok Khai has been supported from various parties and the leader who could pass on knowledge and acted as an excellent example making Ban Wang Nok Khai community to extract the potential of the existing community capital and integrate them for the greatest benefit efficiently and properly. This made Ban Wang Nok Khai a strong community.