Queen Sirikit spends as much time travelling with her husband, equally indifferent to discomforts and long hours, and her interest in the welfare of rural people closely parallels his. An area in which she has taken a particularly deep interest in that of finding sources of supplementary income in the off-season or when crops are destroyed by droughts or floods. It was to combat such problems that the Foundation for the Promotion of Supplementary Occupations and Techniques (known as SUPPORT) was established in 1976 under Her Majesty's royal patronage, partly through funds supplied by Her Majesty and partly with public donations.