Final Tally: Where your donations went in 2009
Lewis Underwood
Since 2007, we have printed brochures
detailing where the money has gone from the previous year’s charity drive.
This is done for transparency’s sake and also for the promotion of our
charity drive.
Sponsored children prepare for school at the Fountain of Life.
As the brochures come out early in the New
Year, before all of the funds have been distributed from the previous year,
we usually publish the final tally in our annual fair souvenir programs
handed out at our annual family event in September.
But, the 2009 accounts are long done and
dusted, and we decided to share the final tally with you now. Please see the
following which shows where your donations have gone.
Due to your generous donations last
year in 2009, we were able to distribute 6,833,691 baht, or 99.9% of
the net raised to the following charities on the Eastern Seaboard, as well
as continue to support a tsunami orphan in Krabi, on your behalf:
Our Target Charity:
(Registered Charity No. Tor 460/2543)
1. The Fountain of Life Center
(3,339,667 baht), under the Good Shepherd
Foundation, provides kids with documentation, education, activities,
meals, medical and dental care, and ultimately, scholarships for entering
govt schools. This past year 58 children received scholarships.
Next Step Program (68,060
baht)
The Next Step Program provides
scholarships to young adults for high school, university and vocational
college.
Young tsunami survivors proudly wear their Care for Kids t-shirts.
1. Nong Eckalot (40,000 baht): is a
15-year old tsunami orphan, who we have sponsored since 2005 via the
Sriphong Khaoluan Foundation in Krabi. We intend to continue our support
through college/university.
3. Nai Pichit (28,060 baht) is a
19-year old currently enrolled in the 2nd
year of a 3-year program at University of Technic, Sattahip.
3. Five pre-university level and 6 BA
level students are currently being provided for through funds given to
the Fountain of Life Center.
Schools: (595,100 baht)
1. Noankraprog School (507,600 baht)
is a primary school in Ban Chang with 277 students
and previously only 5 toilets. We built 10 additional ones and renovated
their canteen at the same time.
2. Children of inmates in Central
Rayong Prison (50,000 baht): we provided scholarships for the 3rd
consecutive year for 25 children to go to gov’t schools.
3. Young PR Ambassadors (35,000 baht):
provides students from Pattaya schools with the opportunity to learn
local history, culture and tourist attractions in their community in order
to enter the travel industry. Top students chosen are entitled to
scholarships.
4. Ban Klongbangpai (2500 baht)
is a primary school in U-Tapao, where we built a kindergarten in a joint
venture with the Herrod Foundation last year. This year we made some minor
improvements to the toilets.
Special Schools:
(1,388,500 baht)
1. Khao Baisri Home for Disabled Boys
(830,060 baht): In a joint project with the Herrod
Foundation, we have built a separate home for the boys at this special
school in Sattahip, including all furnishings.
2. Pattaya Redemptorist School for the
Blind (408,440 baht): We provided a main water system, construction of
new office so the old one could be converted into classrooms and acquired
specialized footballs for their athletes.
3. Sunganseuksa Phiset 12 (100,000
baht) in Ban Bueng, cares for autistic and mentally impaired children.
We matched Joe and Oiy St. Laurent’s annual 50,000 baht donation so that the
center can continue to update their facilities.
4. Special Olympics (50,000 baht):
The 3rd Special Olympics
Thailand Eastern Region Athletics Championship was held at School #7 in
Pattaya in November last year. The 250 handicapped athletes competed in
field and track events and arena football. We were a sponsor for the event.
Shelters: (1,187,215 baht)
1. Camillian Social Center (641,625
baht). In a joint venture with the Canadian
Jackalope Open and Pattaya Panties, we continue to sponsor two disabled
HIV-infected children. We also took 80 kids from their various centers
Christmas shopping and to the Sriracha Tiger Zoo.
2. Ban Jing Jai (430,410 baht) an
orphanage in Nong Prue, now with 71 kids. We cover their monthly food and
utilities’ cost.
3. Kate’s Project (33,180 baht):
helps the poor in Nong Prue. We assisted them by reconstructing a small home
and by sponsoring Christmas party for kids and their families in the area.
4. Children Protection Development
Center (27,000 baht): a shelter for street kids in Huay Yai. We provided
metal storage lockers for their dormitories.
5. PILC Chonburi Handicap Projects
(30,000 baht): This was the last payment for house construction project
for disabled 15-year old boy and his parents started in 2008.
6. Dek Dee Day Care Center (15,000
baht): is in Ban Chang and provides care for young slum kids whose
parents work during the day.
7. Our Home (10,000 baht): in Kanam
Rai, Ban Chang for the benefit of girls who left the remand center in Huay
Pong. The girls stay in a dormitory on the premises and learn quilt-making
and embroidery. We helped repair the roof.
Special Case: (74,299
baht)
Nong Urn is
an 8-year old suffering from congenital liver problems; we have provided her
with a clean apartment to help combat her irritable skin syndrome.
Miscellaneous: (180,850
baht)
1. Shirts (147,850 baht):
Jesters T-shirts were donated at cost to kids from our
various projects.
2. Fair Coupon Redemption (33,000
baht): We provided same kids above with coupons to play the contracted
games free of charge at our Children’s Fair.
If you would like to help us this year,
please visit our website at www.care4kids.info or email us at jesterscd@care4kids.info.
Please remember that this year’s Jesters
Children’s Fair is on Sunday, September 12th
and that our Jesters Party Night 6 days after that on Saturday, September 18th.
This trip is fun!
Mr. Robert Grisdale
GIS Head of Primary
At Garden International School trips form a very
important part of our curriculum. The range of trips available to the
students is vast as well as being tailored to compliment and enhance their
learning experience in the classroom.
Youngsters have fun pretending to be sumo wrestlers at
the YMCA.
There is little point going on a school trip where
nothing educational is to be gained by the children. With this in mind at
Garden International School we try to ensure that the trip is well
researched beforehand, that it is not repeated too often and that there is
an educational benefit to the children going on the trip.
This year, in the Primary and Foundation sections of
G.I.S, every year group from our Early Years to Year 6 went on at least one
trip. In addition, the children in Years 3 to 6 were offered the opportunity
to go on a residential trip, where they spent the night away from home. We
consider residential trips to be the most beneficial for the children as
they learn more about themselves, they learn to be more independent and they
have the chance to develop or hone their social interaction with their peers
- all needed life skills.
The following are a selection of reports on trips that
our children took part in over the last academic year.
Khao Kheow
Open Zoo
Mackenzie and Shazriq (Year 6B)
All the children from Year 1 to Year 6 went to Khao Kheow
Open Zoo. We saw tigers (whoa!), anteaters (awesome!) and pigs (ewwww!).
When the bus stopped we went to see the tigers. There was one walking up and
down right beside the windows, like it was following us! Then we went to see
the hippos.
Time out to pose for a creative photo.
We got to feed them. It was like basketball practice because
they were in the water and we were trying to throw cucumbers into their open
mouths. When we were done feeding the hippos we went to feed the giraffes.
They like beans so we put one in front of a giraffe and he grabbed it with
his long purple tongue. It was very strong! After that we went to see the
animal show. It was great! We saw eagles and hawks and when a snake came out
from behind us we screamed! After the show we had lunch in the playground
and played for a while. Then we got back in the school buses and came home.
YMCAA
The children from Years 1, 2, 3 and 4 went to the local
YMCA and had a fantastic time. The photos show the range of activities that
they did and the fun that they had.
Rayong Aquarium (Nursery Trip)
No guessing why the touch pool was the favorite with our
4 year olds on our recent field trip to Rayong Aquarium! Using all our modes
of learning we touched, talked, questioned, gazed and imagined our way
around the excellent facility all morning before having lunch and then...
time for a sleep on the bus trip home.
Learning archery at the YMCA.
The field experience was designed to fit into the
students’ current unit on Water and Water Animals. It has certainly
generated a lot of healthy inquiry among the children and empathy for sea
creatures.
Sports Trips - FOBISSEA
The members of the Year 4-6 FOBISSEA team have returned
from Malaysia where they have been very successfully competing on our
behalf. The children had a great deal of fun as well as performing
excellently at the sporting events. This year’s team performed extremely
well considering only 10 athletes made the trip. Over the three days of
competition, GIS won a total of 52 medals (16 Gold, 14 Silver and 22
Bronze), including two team Gold medals in girls football and tee ball. The
students were a credit to the school and showed great sportsmanship in all
sports. It was a pleasure to accompany them to the games and they were
brilliantly behaved during at all times. Congratulations to all the
athletes.
Year 2 trip to the Turtle Conservation Centre
Year 2 have been learning about living and non-living
things. Both classes have enjoyed keeping snails as class pets. They also
visited the Turtle Conservation Centre in Sattahip.
Other examples of trips that our children took part in
were: the Early Years trip to the beach as part of their unit on
‘Transport’; the Year 2 trip to Ban Chang as part of their ‘Local Study’
unit; the Reception trip to the Rayong Aquarium as part of their science
topic on ‘Animals in the Sea’ and the big Year 4-6 residential trip to the
‘Buffalo Village’ which was a Thai Culture trip. We also travel to our
Bangkok campus to support their theatre performances and to compete with
them at sports.
