MassAlmsGiving

08 SEPTEMBER 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A boy in his school uniform laughs while he helps load donated food and supplies into a truck after a mass alms giving ceremony in Bangkok Sunday. Volunteering time to do good works is a form of merit making in Thai culture. 10,000 Buddhist monks participated in a mass alms giving ceremony on Rajadamri Road in front of Central World shopping mall in Bangkok. The alms giving was to benefit disaster victims in Thailand and assist Buddhist temples in the insurgency wracked southern provinces of Thailand. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ

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08 SEPTEMBER 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: A boy in his school uniform laughs while he helps load donated food and supplies into a truck after a mass alms giving ceremony in Bangkok Sunday. Volunteering time to do good works is a form of merit making in Thai culture. 10,000 Buddhist monks participated in a mass alms giving ceremony on Rajadamri Road in front of Central World shopping mall in Bangkok. The alms giving was to benefit disaster victims in Thailand and assist Buddhist temples in the insurgency wracked southern provinces of Thailand. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ