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Jesters Fair is going back to school at Regents
Jesters Care for Kids Charity Drive 2014 Sponsored
by Glencore International and Canadian Jackalope Open
Children from Pattaya
Redemptorist School for the Blind keep the beat during last year’s
Children’s Day.
Lewis Underwood
The Children’s Fair is coming up fast 31 days from now on
Sunday, September 7th, at Regents International School Pattaya!
We are pleased to announce that we are going back to the country, the
fresh air and wide open spaces to the grounds of the Regents International
School Pattaya (RISP). The school proved to be an ideal site for our
purposes last year and now that it has become familiar turf, we figure it
can be done even better this time around.
Regents Fair venue looking
east from above during the school’s International Day last year.
Fair goers last year discovered that Regents was not as
far away as they thought. In fact, if one is at Foodland on Pattaya Klang
with a GPS and enters the school as the next destination, it will show that
it is only an 11-minute straightforward trip. For those planning to drive to
the fair, there will be ample parking and helpful attendants to keep it
orderly.
Nevertheless, for those who do not want to make the trip on their own, we
will provide shuttle buses again from Father Ray’s Foundation on Sukhumvit,
where there is also parking space for motorbikes.
The Fountain of Life ‘best of
class’ children receive their bicycles during last year’s event.
The focal point of the fair will again be on the grassy
oval, which is nearly 400 meters around, and central to the school grounds.
On this site we will affix a stage and approximately 90 stalls, including
varied attractions, activities and cuisine. Bill, our fair site coordinator,
is already busy booking stallholders this year, which are going for 2000
baht.
If you are interested, go to: http://www.care4kids.info/rent-a-stall.html.
We hope that you too will be joining us and our project children for a day
of fun.
Online:
For more info, please visit us at
www.care4kids.info
www.facebook.com/jesterscare.kids
[email protected] and/or
https://twitter.com/JestersCare4Kid
Our Gala Party Night follows 13 days after the fair on Saturday, September
20th, at the Amari Pattaya. Tickets are already being sold. If interested,
go to this link: http://www.care4kids.info/event/gala-party-night.html
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Pattaya Sports Club and Jesters combine to build new toilets
We were welcomed by the school band.
William Macey
48 years ago the Nong Plalai area, very similar to Pattaya, was quiet
with very little development and it was sufficient for Santikam to open as a
kindergarten school for children below school age, to help parents of young
children who had to find work, probably in the surrounding fields. When they
opened everything was in place and ideal for just a few children, but as more
families settled in the area the demand to expand, to take in more and older
children, could not be resisted and they now have 250 children below the age of
12. The number of teachers have increased to 15 as have most of the facilities
like sporting areas and classrooms to enable the school to provide an education
to an ever increasing number of children.
The toilets before the upgrade.
But one area that had fallen behind was the toilet
facilities. On one side of the school, there were 5 toilets for children and the
15 teachers, not an ideal situation. But on the other side only 4 toilets
existed for 120 children that studied in that area with no washing facilities
and, over the years, badly needed some upgrading. It does not take much
imagination to realise that there were problems at various times of the day, a
mad rush to be the first in the queue.
YWCA contacted Pattaya Sports Club and Jesters Care For Kids to ask for their
help. Both organizations have been established over many years and are unable to
resist a call for help from children and Santikam School was a case in point.
Plans were discussed and, fortunately, a local builder presented us with a very
competitive quotation and, with the OK from both PSC and Jesters committees, got
down to work immediately.
Welcome to all the guests.
As we drove into Santikam School on a hot Thursday morning,
Woody from Jesters, Noy of YWCA, William and Nigel of Pattaya Sports Club were
surprised when we were welcomed by the school percussion band and many teachers
to conduct the formal handover of the new toilets which were funded by Jesters
and Pattaya Sports Club. The visitors were encouraged to join in and dance as
the band played.
The existing cubicles were upgraded with new toilets with colourful tiles to the
floors and walls. The additional cubicles were built in a similar design to the
existing toilets, with 2 new hand basins and some brightly coloured paint. It
was quite obvious that everybody was happy with the improvements and their
appreciation was shown by an official ceremony to formally open the new
facilities.
The finished toilets with some artistic impressions.
PSC, Jesters, YWCA and the
school’s director.
A big thank you from some of the
children.
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Correction: Last week in the
“Our Children” section we inadvertently swapped captions and attributed
Radchada Chomjinda’s birthday wishes for Pattaya Mail to Utumma
Rachtawattanakul, and vice versa. We regret any confusion this may have
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