He is an active and healthy 8 year old who likes to play with his friends - especially at soccer. He does not attend the available school because he has to help his parents with chores such as cleaning at home and in the fields where the family makes a living from rice, coffee, kola nuts and breeding cattle. The family compound is made from sun dried bricks with tin roofs and earthen floors. Kaman's house has four rooms with wooden beds, chairs and tables but no washroom. Water is brought from a spring close by.
Wood is used for cooking usually outside.
Light is provided by kerosene lamp. The seasonal rains and high humidity make the house damp to live in. Kaman is the only child of his mother who is one of his father's three wives. The family is in good health and participate in the Government's vaccination program. Jutharthip Somsrisai lives with her mother, father and two brothers in a rural hill village in Northeast Thailand.