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Jesters Care For Kids Charity Drive 2008: Ways you can help us
Lewis Underwood
Summer is here, which means our main events are coming up quick. The
Jesters Children Fair on Sunday, September 14th at the Diana Garden Resort
and Driving Range and Jesters Party Night on the following Saturday,
September 20th at Jameson’s Irish Pub are now less than 90 days away. This
means we are now working more vigorously than ever to make everything come
together by then.
 Having
fun at last year’s fair.
There are many ways you can help us lend a hand to the children in need at
this juncture. Of course, the most significant way to help is by making cash
donations. However, there are other ways to help too.
We have always taken pride in the fact that we can distribute to our
beneficiaries nearly as much as we raise. This is largely because we are all
volunteers and there is no administrative cost subtracted from your
donations whatsoever. For example, last year we were able to distribute 97%
of the 7.15 million baht we raised.
The reason this percentage was not 100% is because we hardly ever can cover
the costs of printing for our stickers, banners, posters, fair souvenir
programs, etc. The way we can close this gap even more is through
advertisements in our fair souvenir programs.
Advertising in the latter, probably our most valuable PR tool, is
another way you can help us. For as little as 4000 baht for a half page
color advertisement you can promote your business and help us cover our
printing costs at the same time. Or if you want to go bigger you can take
out a full page color ad at 7500 baht. By the way our Diamond and Platinum
Sponsors are entitled to full page ads free of cost.
Another way to help us now is by donating a Grand Raffle prize, such
as tour packages, hotel stays, meal vouchers, jewelry or other gift items.
Last year we sold 386,000 baht worth of GR ticket books, which allowed us to
assist several schools and, shelters, as well as providing scholarships in
our Next Step Program this past year. The more prizes we get the more raffle
ticket books we can sell.
Still another way to help us at this point is to rent a stall or two at
our Fair. Non-food stalls still go for 1500 baht and food stalls for
2500 baht on the day from 10 am and 6 pm. You can easily book a stall on our
website. Stall booking activity has been brisk lately, so do not linger if
you want a stall.
You can also help by providing family entertainment on stage for our
program of events on Fair day. Acts involving song, dance, comedy, magic,
acrobatic, martial arts, etc., are all welcome.
For other ways to help, please visit our website at www.care4kids.info or
email us at Jesterscd@ care4kids.info. We hope you can help our 11th Annual
Jesters Care for Kids Charity Drive to be another resounding success.
Donations can be made by cheques or bank drafts to: Good Shepherd
Foundation, c/o The Fountain of Life Center, 3/199 M.6 Soi Chalermprakiet 3,
Pattaya 3rd Road, Naklua, Banglamung, Chonburi 20150, Thailand.
Alternatively, you can transfer funds directly to their account at Bangkok
Bank, Muang Pattaya Branch, Chonburi, 20260, Acct# 484-0-68306-6. Swiftcode:
BKKBTBK and fax payment slip with your name to number above. Official
invoices and tax receipts will be provided for all contributions. Otherwise
you can use our Online Donation Facility on our website.
Charity Club of Pattaya visit Poo Gan
Christina Boden
The Charity Club of Pattaya members have been extremely busy
over the past few weeks. They have been checking up on all their
projects in Issan and collecting donations for Poo Gan, a 2- year old
little girl that fell into a fire at 8 months old in Issan.
 Poo
Gan and her mother prepare for the next step in the recovery process.
Poo Gan came to Bangkok last Tuesday to have a compression mask fitted,
to try and smooth out the scarring. She will have to wear the mask for
23 hours a day, not a task I would like to undertake, asking a lively 2
year old not to remove a tight fitting mask!
As Poo Gan was so close it was a good opportunity for the Charity Club
to hire the Queen Victoria’s mini bus and have a day trip to Bangkok.
Georgios Joannou kindly donated a teddy bear for them to give to her.
So, Malcolm, Christina, Kevin and Som Fisher and Vic King piled into the
bus and made good time getting to the busy hospital. Poo Gan was a
little shy, but the fluffy teddy bear soon won her over.
 Poo
Gan was a little shy, but the fluffy teddy bear soon won her over.
Mum and Dad were also with her and they thanked the Charity Club and its
members for paying for all her treatments and travel expenses. They
couldn’t believe we had come to Bangkok from Pattaya just to see them
and Poo Gan.
Poo Gan is such a happy child, even though she has had a very painful
start to her little life.
The Dr’s say it will take around two years of treatments and operations,
so she’s not out of the woods yet. The Charity Club has committed to
cover over this period so a lot of fund raising will need to be done in
the future!
Anyone who would like to make a donation can contact the charity club by
e-mail: charity
[email protected]
The donations took place
at John Richardson’s classic car collection display last weekend (see
Automania for details). Included in his collection is this beautifully
restored Pontiac Trans Am.
John Richardson and his
family donate 100,000 baht to the Charity Club of Pattaya, which was
then equaled by Frank Lawton and family from the Australian Wearside
Constructions, and this was presented to Christina Boden. The 200,000
baht will be used to allow further plastic surgery to continue in
Bangkok on the young burns victim from Buriram.
GIS takes many medals in FOBISSEA Games
Miss Charles (Coach) and
Francisco Caules Sintes
Garden International School (GIS) of Ban Chang, Rayong has just
participated in the Federation of British Schools of South East Asia
(FOBISSEA) Under 11 Games.
 That’s
right Flo - No 1!
175 children from ten different schools in Thailand, Nepal, Malaysia,
Vietnam and Kota Kinibalu accompanied by 25 coaches and teachers
attended these games at the International School of Penang-Uplands.
The team of 12 Garden International School Y5 students and 2 staff left
for battle on Monday May 26 to Penang in Malaysia. The GIS team was
kitted out smartly throughout the Games in their new kit kindly
sponsored by the director of Ultimate Technology & Services (UTS), John
Richardson.
The Games kicked off with an opening ceremony with all teams carrying a
banner and releasing doves ay the University Sains Malaysia.
 Marisa
won all of her swim events - achieving 7 medals in Swimming.
It was Athletics on day 1; and GIS started the games off with a blast.
The team achieved medals in 26 out of the 35 events they were entered
into; reaping 10 Gold, 12 Silver and 4 Bronze.
Day 2 was time for Team Sports. The morning was filled with football
fever and GIS got both their Girls’ team and Boys’ team through to the
finals. It was full of the nail biting elements of a world cup - with a
hospital injury for one of the girls’ team leaving them with only 4
players and penalties!
They triumphed though - with the Girls’ team taking Gold and the Boys’
team taking Silver in their categories.
 Flo
focussed on the finish line.
The afternoon was full of more success with the team of 12 taking the
Gold medal in T. Ball against the host school in the final.
Day 3 was Swimming; held in the amazing surroundings of Penang
International Sports Arena (PISA).
GIS achieved medals in 25 out of a possible 31 events; with 17 Gold, 4
Silver and 4 Bronze.
The whole team had an amazing Games - the best results the school has
ever achieved. All the team must have a special mention: Coco Atkinson
13 medals, Kelly Ham 9, Jasmine Richardson 3, Kain Lee 8, John Caules 9,
David York-Schardt 8, Glen Oxford 7, Jonathan Fitzgerald 6, and Kempt
Thammathataree 3.
The following children should be highlighted as they scored a medal for
everything they were entered into: Florence Grieve 12 medals, Marisa
Bodemer 15 medals, and Gyu Sik Ham 10 medals.
The team had an intensive training programme every lunch and after
school and it really shows that practice does make perfect!
Marisa focused from the
start - Gold in 800m.
Coco taking Gold for high
Jump.
Coco won all of her swim
events, too.
Girls’ Football Gold.
Boys’ Football Silver.
Double first for Girls’
relay.
A very happy girls’ relay
team taking the Silver.
Kain in long jump action
before winning the Gold.
End of day 1 - not a bad
start: 26 medals out of a possible 31!
Opening Ceremony - Team
GIS.
Team GIS before they set
off.
Double first for the boys
and girls relay teams
in 4x50m freestyle & 4 x 25 Medley.
T. Ball team on the podium
collecting Gold.
Regent’s go Green during Environment Week 08
Sara Menges
(Year 13 Environmental Pillar Leader)
The last week of May (26th - 30th) was Green Week at The Regent’s School
where activities were held around the theme of preserving our
environment and information was given to raise awareness, especially on
global warming and reducing carbon emissions.
 Stix
makes sure that he puts the right rubbish in the correct bin.
Environmental issues are becoming a bigger problem in our world and
therefore lots of information and awareness must be raised especially on
issues such as global warming. The Regent’s School itself has been
increasingly concerned about its effects towards the environment and,
other than the Environmental Pillar of Round Square; more groups such as
the Global Issue’s Network (GIN) have been working on environmental
related issues. GIN, although focusing primarily on reducing carbon
emissions, have contributed a lot to the week by helping to organize
barazza groups, CO2 Day and by introducing the start of their ‘OFF’
Campaign; a project to help reduce carbon emissions in school and will
be continued into June.
GIN’s CO2 Day on Monday led to a great start of Green Week with the
distribution of facts and figures on carbon emissions to every form
class, a GIN parade through the school promoted these facts and a raffle
which was held later on the Friday.
 Cat
is one of the stars of the Fash Trash Show.
CO2 day was then followed by Rubbish Rumba, a day where students were
encouraged to think about recycling and how they throw away their
rubbish. Bins around the school (except for those in classrooms and
toilets) were turned over leaving only two designated areas containing
bins. Each area had four bins which separated the different types of
rubbish that was created - Cans, Plastic, Wet Rubbish, Dry Rubbish - and
the students were encouraged to think about throwing away their rubbish
in the correct places and the correct bins. The bins were kept there for
the rest of the week.
On the Wednesday a Green Quiz was held under the clock tower with
questions to quiz students on how environmentally knowledgeable they
are. Congratulations to Sierra Sanchez who won the Quiz prize at the
Friday assembly and who outsmarted Ugyen - The Regent’s School’s very
own U-Gore.
 Kirsty
in Year 8 is a big fan of trees.
Thursday was the big day where allocated times were given when all the
air-conditioners in the school had to be turned off! Thanks to the
Student Guild it was also a mufti day so students could wear more
comfortable clothes and enjoy the cool breeze that came through the open
classroom windows. To finish off the day during activity time the whole
school was divided into barraza groups in which discussions on global
warming and reducing carbon emissions were held. Each group was also
given a case study on either wasting food or air pollution in China and
had to discuss the case study and create a poster presenting their ideas
on the issues. Overall the day was a success and it couldn’t have
happened without the co-operation of all the students.
However, that’s not all! - On Friday there was a fabulous Fash Trash
fashion show where models and teams of designers showed off their
environmental friendly clothes down the catwalk under the clock-tower.
This was followed by an assembly in the Globe Theatre with a
presentation to summon up the week and provide further information from
GIN concerning their ‘OFF’ campaign for June.
In addition to Green Week the Environmental Pillar has also been helping
the Primary Eco-Dudes with the Tree Nursery established at the start of
the year. The plants will be planted during Round Square Week (the last
week of June) and hopefully along with the ‘OFF’ campaign help to reduce
carbon emissions and The Regent’s School can be one step closer to
becoming a carbon neutral school.
So, as much as Green Week has been a success other projects are still
undergoing and making sure we don’t leave our environmental issues for
just one week of the year. It is very important that students and
teachers keep thinking about the environment and try their best to help
preserve it whether it is through recycling rubbish, turning lights off
or turning the tap off while brushing their teeth. Every little bit does
count and it never hurts to form good environmental friendly habits that
become second nature to us all year around.
Ivie leads her barazza
group - making posters of an environmental case study.
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