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Regent’s approaches 100,000 baht for AIDS awareness
Paul Crouch
1st December, World AIDS Day has come and gone but the money keeps coming in
and the AIDS awareness badges are now thin on the ground. No more badges
with the red ribbon on, no more pink elephants… students are now buying
badges that represent their houses and wearing them proud, ready for
Athletics Day on December 12: ‘Regent’s sport supports AIDS awareness.’
 Dr.
Philippe from Heartt 2000 answers questions from the RS Service Group.
Back in October the Round Square Service Group hesitated, ummmed and ahhhed
over the ordering of 800 handmade beaded badges from South Africa. “Could we
really sell all of these by December 1st and raise as much money as we did
for AIDS awareness last year?” December 1 came around and the RS Service
Group has just delivered a hard hitting whole school assembly in the Globe
Theatre. The Primary Student Guild joined the secondary school and the
audience was treated to a strong message of taking responsibility and not
discriminating against people affected by the disease. The Year 10 IGCSE
Drama students performed a powerful piece of drama entitled “Who Cares About
AIDS? A Rehearsal For Life” that encouraged students to talk about issues
such as AIDS and difficult decisions that have to be made when growing up.
 36
different nationalities make an AIDS awareness ribbon in the audience.
Students representing the 38 different nationalities in the secondary school
were invited to stand up in the audience and form the shape of the AIDS
awareness ribbon, demonstrating the togetherness of many nationalities in
supporting this global problem.
During the assembly it was with great pleasure that the RS Service Group
welcomed Dr. Philippe Seur from Pattaya Heartt 2000 to speak to the Regent’s
students and were able to present him with 30,000 baht. An informative
presentation was made about HIV and AIDS and living with the disease,
especially in Thailand. A number of questions were put forward by the
students and informative responses were given by Dr. Philippe.
The RS Service Group and Student Guild hope to visit the Camillian Centre
soon after Christmas and donate another 30,000 baht that has also been
raised from the beaded badges. 30,000 baht has already been sent to South
Africa, to the Kidzpositive organization that supports HIV / AIDS affected
women and children in that country by making the beaded badges for an
income.
The RS Service Group would like to thank everyone who has supported their
AIDS awareness campaign this term, especially Mr. Thomas and the Year 10
IGCSE Drama group.
Dr. Philippe poses with the
hard working RS Service Group.
The Year 10 IGCSE Drama
students perform a powerful piece of drama entitled “Who Cares About AIDS? A
Rehearsal For Life”.
Christmas comes early for
one family in Isaan
In November, Peter Rottmann, past president of Rotary
Club Krasang-Buriram visited Pattaya to attend a Rotary meeting and meet
up with Malcolm and Christina Boden from the Charity Club of Pattaya. He
wanted to ask if they could provide any help with a boy he had come
across in the Buriram-Krasang area.
 (L
to R) Peter Rottmann, Vic King, Christina Boden and John Garbutt at the
official presentation of the new wheelchair.
The boy is 12 years old and he lives with his widowed mother and his 5
year old sister. His father was a rice farmer who died of mouth cancer.
Soon after his father’s death he began complaining of severe headaches.
His mother took him to the hospital and they found he had a brain
tumour.
He has since endured 3 operations, which has left his mother in debt and
unable to work as she has to stay home and look after her two children.
After the third operation the boy was left severely disabled, with no
sitting balance, blind, dumb and incontinent.
He and his mother cannot leave the house as she cannot move him and she
has no one to take care of her son. She did borrow a normal wheelchair,
but that wasn’t suitable due to his inability to sit without proper
support. He sits tied on a sun lounger all day, as this is the only
thing his mother can do to stop him falling off.
 Peter
Rottmann, past president of Rotary Club Krasang-Buriram, brought this
photo to the Charity Club of Pattaya, which prompted the club, the Queen
Victoria Inn and the Lord Nelson to raise funds to buy the family a
proper wheelchair.
Peter gave Christina the photograph you see here. After their meeting
with Peter, Malcolm and Christina went straight round to see Vic King,
the Charity Club’s treasurer and owner of the Queen Victoria Inn to
discuss how they could raise funds to help. Vic then showed the picture
to John Garbutt of the Lord Nelson.
As soon as they saw the photo and heard the terrible plight of this boy
and his family, they got together and between the Lord Nelson and the
Queen Victoria Inn the two bars raised enough for the Charity Club of
Pattaya to purchase a special wheelchair that is light weight, lies
back, has head support, seat belts to hold him in, foot rests and leg
supports.
Peter Rottmann had come to Pattaya on Saturday Dec 9th to attend the
Charity Club of Pattaya’s Christmas party at Jameson’s for the children
of the Camillian Centre. Peter was very moved when the Charity Club told
him that he would be taking the chair back with him sooner than he
expected and that a presentation had been arranged at the Lord Nelson
Soi 6 with Vic and John, as soon as the children’s party ended, as it
was the two bars that raised all the money.
Peter said, “It will be a wonderful surprise for the mother and her son
this week when I turn up with the chair. She knows nothing about this
and neither did I!”
Thanks to the money raised at the Lord Nelson and the Queen Victoria
Inn, Christmas has come early for one family; they will surely enjoy
getting out and about, shopping, visiting friends and relatives,
something they haven’t done for a long, long time.
I.S.E.’s 2006 Walk-A-Thon raises 130,000 baht
ISE High School
Student Council
On November 1st this year, all students of the International School Eastern
Seaboard (I.S.E.) participated in their student-organized annual
Walk-A-Thon. Together, the entire school was able to raise a total amount of
130,000 baht, which will be donated to the children of the Fountain of Life
Center.
For two and a half hours I.S.E. students enjoyed the morning by walking
around Burapha Golf Course, along with twenty-five students from the
Fountain of Life Center. Children from both schools socialized and
cheerfully took in one another’s company.
Following the walk was a pool party with swimming, pizza, and even a
watermelon-eating contest for kids to join in on.
Overall, the walk this year was a huge success and full of fun experiences
for both I.S.E. and Fountain of Life students. We all look forward to
raising money and walking at next year’s Walk-A-Thon!
ISE High School Student
Council hands out water to keep the kids hydrated during the walk.
It’s a race to the finish!
Just chillin before the walk.
Chai Yo! Here we go!
This is great!
What a beautiful day for a
walk.
Thank you ISE.
Assumption students send special birthday letters to His Majesty the King
Some of the students whose
letters have been sent to HM the King, together with English teachers Miss
Heidi and Miss Kiki.
Mathayom 2 students from Assumption College Sriracha had
their own special way of wishing His Majesty the King a happy birthday -
they wrote him a letter explaining why they love His Majesty.
Teachers from the English Programme selected the best letters and sent them
off to the Royal residence.
The students whose letters were chosen were Vipu Ngamrattanakul, Thanadol,
Veravong Supatvanich, Kannarong Kangsadarn, Donlawat Jantaramporn, Viravat
Pansotok, Chanatip Temsiripong, Vipat Vongvaraviphat, Apinat Benjamano,
Kittithat Praditpon, Songplol Kietopas, Thanadol Tangdamrongtham, Ronnakorn
Phajerakumjai and Ratchanon Tengtaworn.
All the students study in either Assumption’s English Programme or Special
English Programme.
One of the students, Viravat Pansotok, wrote: “I love my King because he is
very kind. He made many projects to solve everyone’s problem.”
Another, Songplol Kietopas, said: “At home my family loves the King of
Thailand. I have a picture of the 60th anniversary celebrations and a
picture of the Royal barges’ procession. The King loves everybody and
everybody loves the King.”
To add to the celebrations, musical students from Assumption went to
Sriracha’s health park to take part in a ceremony to honour His Majesty.
They played a selection of songs as fireworks exploded and people lit
candles to mark the birthday.
Assumption has more than 4,000 students and is the largest school on the
Eastern Seaboard. For more details visit
www.acs.ac.th
Students from Assumption’s
band play at Sriracha health park to mark the King’s birthday.
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