Derek Franklin
It is hard to believe that even in this day and age, and in a city
such as Pattaya, there are children who do not have enough to eat. There are
many youngsters who go to sleep each night with hunger pains in their
stomachs and who leave for school each morning without eating breakfast, the
most important meal of the day.
A nutritious breakfast awaits
the toddlers at the Father Ray Day Care Center.
Many of the children currently living at the Father Ray
Foundation are there due to poverty. Parents earning a low wage are often
unable to provide their child or children with the basic necessities,
including a decent diet.
A poor diet can lead to a lack of concentration and energy, which in turn
leads to poor school grades and the inability to go on to further education.
It is therefore important for the Foundation to provide all eight hundred
and fifty children and students under its care with a nutritious and
balanced diet.
On World Food Day the children
of Pattaya need your help.
On arriving at the Father Ray Day Care Center each
morning the toddlers are provided with breakfast, as many families will not
have food at home. When the children at the Father Ray Children’s Home and
Children’s Village leave for school each morning they do so with a full
belly.
The students with disabilities need a good and nutritious diet to help wound
healing and to keep them as strong as possible.
But to feed eight hundred and fifty children and students three times a day,
365 days of the year, takes a lot of food. In one year the Foundation cooks
75,000kgs of rice and uses 29,000 liters of cooking oil.
On International World Food Day, which is held on Wednesday 16th October,
the Father Ray Foundation is asking the people of Pattaya to make a donation
of basic foodstuffs; cooking oil, salt, sugar, fish sauce, canned fish,
dried noodles and rice.
Please make your donation at the Father Ray Foundation Welcome Center on
Sukhumvit Road, between Pattaya Klang and Pattaya North Roads.
More information can be found at www.fr-ray.org or email
[email protected]
