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HIV patients receive lunch from Y.W.C.A.
and Pattaya Christian Club
Vimolrat Singnikorn
About 250 adults and children living with HIV were
treated to a free lunch of noodles and ice cream courtesy of the Y.W.C.A.
Bangkok-Pattaya Center and Pattaya Christian Club.
The Y.W.C.A. Bangkok-Pattaya Center invited people to
donate inhalers for Ondine’s Stricken children at Chonburi Hospital.
Y.W.C.A. Chairwoman Nittaya Patimasongkroh led the
delegation to the Camillian Social Center in Rayong March 30 as part of the
organizations’ lunch project, which aims to provide underprivileged people
with healthy meals.
Members of the Christian club entertained the shelter’s
residents with music while others, including Paichit Jaetapai, head of the
Environmental Preservation Project at the Y.W.C.A., made private donations
of up to 3,000 baht.
Members of the Christian club entertain the shelter’s
residents with music.
The children enjoy the break from their daily routine.
Y.W.C.A. Bangkok-Pattaya Center and Pattaya Christian Club members
provide lunch for people living with HIV at the Camillian Social Center in
Rayong.
The Y.W.C.A. Bangkok-Pattaya Center brought noodles
to offer to children living with HIV.
Regents students paint the Great Wall
Derek Franklin
Students from the Regents International School have
been making regular visits to the Fr. Ray Children’s Village to paint
the wall surrounding the complex. This is in preparation for October
when one thousand students from eighty schools around the world will
arrive in Pattaya for the International Round Square Conference 2010.
Painting can be hard work!
Apart from attending the conference the visiting
students will be visiting many local social projects where they will be
involved with community service work to help the underprivileged of
Pattaya.
Each school who attends the conference will be given
a piece of the wall at the Fr. Ray Children’s Village on to which they
can paint their own design and also add their own schools emblem,
thereby leaving a lasting reminder of the help they have given to the
children of Pattaya.
The Fr. Ray Children’s Village is one of the social
projects managed by the Fr. Ray Foundation. For more information on the
work of the Fr. Ray Foundation see their website www.fr-ray.org or email
[email protected]
Each school who attends the International Round Square
Conference 2010 will be given a piece of the wall
at the Fr. Ray
Children’s Village on to which they can paint their own design.
Students from the Regents International School have
been making regular visits to the Fr. Ray Children’s Village to paint
the wall surrounding the complex.
Teens study biology,
plant preservation
at Khao Kheow Open Zoo
About 50 secondary-school students and teachers from
around
the Eastern Seaboard attend the first day.
Theerarak Suthatiwong
Teenagers from across Thailand embarked on a journey
to Chonburi’s Khao Kheow Open Zoo to learn about biology and plant
preservation as part of a five-day environmental camp.
About 50 secondary-school students and teachers from
around the Eastern Seaboard attended the first day of the March 23-28
Plant Species Protection Project at the zoo’s training center.
Students from around 200 educational institutions
around Thailand attended during the 5 days the camp was run by the zoo,
the science department at Chulalongkorn University and the Special
Marine Command of the Royal Thai Fleet. Workshops focused on the study
of biology, ecology and oceanography with an emphasis on the importance
of maintaining a balance between the man-made and natural worlds.
Jesters Project at Khao Baisri is now functional
Report by B. Tuppin
Kao Baisri Centre for Disabled Children located on
Hwy 331 near the crossing with Hwy 332 is a little known facility that
offers care and tuition for children with severe disabilities. These
children are those with Downs Syndrome, Autism and extreme mental and
physical disabilities. The centre began life as an initiative of Khun
Boonchoo [a dedicated teacher of 30 years experience] and was housed in
one room of the Kao Baisri Community School. Word of Khun Boonchoo’s
work with these children soon spread and children from as far as Pattaya
and Rayong were soon finding their way to Kao Baisri Centre.
A future animator.
In 2006 Jesters Care for Kids added a basic lean-to
structure that was to become two new classrooms. Other organisations
contributed equipment and supplies. It soon became clear that the demand
for the service this facility provided had outgrown its current home.
Jesters were enthusiastic about involvement in any
future expansion but there was a problem. The Centre was under the
jurisdiction of District 12 Education Dept. and they had no land. To
solve this problem Khun Boonchoo made a great personal sacrifice and
transferred land owned by her located close to the school to the
education dept.
Learning to climb.
With the land secured Jesters could safely allocate
funds to erect a building. Plans were drawn up for a structure of approx
144 sq metres to include common bedroom, classrooms and separate toilet
facilities to be enclosed behind a 2 metre wall. This plan was presented
to Herrod Foundation who was happy to be involved; others who wanted
their sponsorship directed to this project were Club Nevada, Mike
Koerner, and Lolita’s Pattaya.
The Sint Josef Church Zaandam Holland forwarded funds
to be used at our discretion to supply furnishings and equipment. The
total funding has been B820,000 but should additional items be required
they will be supplied willingly.
The project while not quite complete [landscaping and
beautification are continuing] is already fully functional, with extra
teaching staff from District 12 already allocated to the centre. This
project has not been completed without hiccups along the way but the end
result is most satisfying. I applaud the dedication of Khun Boonchoo and
her staff and the generosity of the Jesters Care for Kids sponsors in
making it all possible and am proud to have been a part of the project.
Khun Boonchoo directs traffic.
Making polishing cloths.
Learning to walk.
The start of the project.
Khun Boonchoo on the left.
The director and students help out.
The building inspector arrives.
Start of the gardens.
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