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Pattaya students march
against dengue fever
Students lead public
officials in a “Fight Dengue Fever” parade last week through Naklua,
spreading the message that it is dengue fever season and encouraging people
to get rid of standing water around the house to reduce mosquito breading
and mitigate the disease’s spread.
Manoon Makpol
Students from Pattaya School No. 3 learned the dangers of
dengue fever and how to mitigate the disease’s spread.
Nurse Maneerat Lawan spoke to the kids about the role of
mosquitoes in spreading dengue at the July 4 workshop organized by the
Pattaya Public Health and Environmental Office. Students learned about sand
abatement for mosquito-breeding grounds and read through brochures provided
by the city.
Later that day, the School No. 3 children joined nearly
200 other students and public officials at a “Fight Dengue Fever” parade
through Naklua.
The parade was meant to alert citizens about the
important of prevention. Kids distributed brochures, which pointed out that
mosquitoes can breed in even small pools of water, including water inside
aluminum cans and garbage on the street.
Students dump some of their
anti-mosquito packets into standing water along the parade route.
Students carry the
anti-mosquito message on their headbands in the parade.
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GIS establishes new school record with
78 medals at 2012 FOBISSEA Games
Robert Grisdale, GIS
Head of Primary
The 2012 Primary FOBISSEA Team established a new school
record by collecting 78 medals. GIS won 28 Gold, 30 Silver and 20 Bronze
over the three day competition
Year 4 girls Gold medal relay team (from left) Inez,
Tessa, Jessica, and Golate (front).
Team Results
GIS are the Champions at Year 6 T-Ball (for the third
year running).
GIS are Champions at Year 5 T-ball
GIS are Champions at Year 6 Boys Football
GIS are Champions at Year 4 Girls Football
Congratulations to all the athletes and coaches on their
outstanding efforts. We look forward to bigger and better things next year
at St Stephen’s.
GIS had many helpers who helped make the FOBISSEA Group
C2 Primary Games such a great success. These include many teachers and staff
and several sponsors. MBf Taylors generously agreed to sponsor the swimming
kits and hats.
The other sponsors were: Fairway (Thailand), PTT Global
Chemical, SCI Group, Crathco, Lawton Asia, Thunder Cranes (L) Ltd, Ruampat
Rayong Hospital, Union Sime Darby, Advance Media, Elite Printer, Hydro-Tech,
Mr. Frank &Khun Su Nichols and Mr Barry Soanes.
Ruampat Hospital donated an EMS medical bag full of
supplies for each school to use during the competition and in the evenings
at their hotel. These proved to be extremely useful and we are very grateful
for their support.
The GIS Team
Year 4 - Alex, Austin, Jeffry, Kenjung, Benjamin, Lily,
Tessa, Golate, Jesica, Inez, and Fiona.
Year 5 - Sara, Lynsey, Kavisha, Pygmy, Kamilla,
Ashcharya, Sun, Chan, Hazim, and Nut.
Year 6 - Simon, Sang Hyun, Aakheel, Yury, Karan, Azim,
Oliver, Jezabel, Stefanie, Katherine, Shaniya, Mary, and Manau.
Nut winning Gold medal for 800
meter-run.
Year 6 boys win the Gold medal
for football (top middle) Karan, (left) Azim, Aakhel, Oliver, Yury, and
Simon (front right) and Sang Hyun.
Football Champions (top left)
Fiona, Jessica, Lily, Golate, Inez, and Tessa (front: sitting).
T-ball Champions for the 3rd
year running.
Year 5 T-ball Champions.
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Redemptorist School holds monthly cleanup
Students and helpers take time out from cleaning
to pose for a commemorative photo.
Vittaya Yoondorn
Redemptorist School for the Disabled students took time
off from their studies to give their campus a scrubbing during the monthly
“Big Cleaning Day.”
Students cleaned bedrooms, swept and removed garbage from
the playground and around ponds. Thai and foreign volunteers chipped in for
the July 2 activity.
Apart from cleaning, students also cut the grass, trimmed
bushes and spruced up the landscaping. Girls cleaned the Wattanathorn
building while the boys scrubbed the toilets.
No problem, I can clean just
as well as the next person.
It’s a big job, but we can
handle it.
Like the old MacDonald’s song,
“grab a bucket and mop… scrub the bottom and top…”
Training begins for Pattaya youth ambassador contestants
(L to R) Tony Malhotra,
Dhaninrat Klinhom and Wisan Thaksisachai talk to the students about what is
expected of them.
Sunturak Sangdokmai
One hundred area students have begun training to become
the city’s next young tourist “ambassadors,” hearing lectures and practicing
skills to help promote Pattaya while simultaneously earning scholarships to
advance their own educations.
Twenty teams of five youths ages 9-16 began four days of
education and testing at city hall with a June 29 congratulations and
blessing ceremony hosted by officials from the Pattaya Permanent Secretary’s
Office, Social Welfare Department and Education Office. The field will be
winnowed to 10 teams July 20 through written and oral exams and the winners
selected July 27 in finals held at Royal Garden Plaza.
The first place ambassador will win prizes worth 30,000
baht with second- and third-place finishers getting 20,000 and 10,000 baht
respectively. Smaller prizes will be awarded for specific oratory skills.
Training began June 30 with a day of lectures on public
relations, research, oratory skills, and career advice.
Dhaninrat Klinhom, marketing communications director the
Pattaya Hilton, discussed the importance of good research in public
relations, building self confidence and speaking correctly.
Wisan Thaksaniyachai of City Radio 90.3 FM, covered
enunciation, listening and communications skills.
Tony Malhotra, assistant managing director for Pattaya
Mail Publishing Co., talked about life and career planning, self-confidence
and preparation.
One hundred area students
begin their training to become the city’s next young tourist ambassadors.
Thanitrat Klinhom, Hilton
Hotel marketing communication manager, speaks to the youths about the
competition.
Student contestants have their
wrists tied in sai sin for good luck and protection.
The competition is intended to
not only be educational but also fun for the students.
Tony Malhotra poses for a picture
with some of the youth hopefuls.
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Caring for needy kids on a monthly basis
Jesters Care for Kids Charity Drive 2012, Sponsored by Glencore International and Canadian Jackalope Open
Somchai and his family with the
disabled boy, Flook, who we provided with a side car for his motorcycle and
now a refrigerator. Bernie and Nongprue Deputy Mayor Anek Patana-Ngam are
standing to the right.
Lewis Underwood
Our September events are coming up fast and the
adrenaline is starting to kick in now that there is only 57 days left until
our Children’s Fair on Sunday, September 9th. And, that means we are not
only preparing vigorously for the Fair, but also intensifying our 15th
annual campaign to raise money for deprived kids in need of safe shelter and
educational options.
We provided Paew, a
14-year-old girl crippled from birth, with a bigger wheelchair, along with
her ration of rice and milk. Her father stands on the left, next to the
deputy mayor of Nongprue.
The culmination of our fund-raising efforts is generally
perceived to be in September to coincide with our annual events, but the
fact of the matter is that we now seek donations year round.
After all, we like to be able to take on new projects
whenever they might arise during the year, and moreover, we now have monthly
commitments to three of our core beneficiaries. Collectively, they require
588,000 baht over the year, which is apportioned to them on a monthly basis.
The mainstay projects in question are as follows:
Ban Jing Jai Orphanage in Nongprue is on Nernplabwan
Road, which currently is home for 84 kids. Piangtah is in charge of this
facility and we have been helping her and ‘her kids’ since 2006.
From the beginning, we provided them with extensive
building renovations and additions to keep up with their burgeoning number
of orphans. Since 2008, we have also covered their monthly food costs and
utilities with a 30,000 baht stipend. (Note: They have finally received
their official status and are now known as the Ban Jai Jing Foundation.)
Khao Baisri Special Education in Sattahip off Hwy 331
just north of the intersection with Hwy 332 is under the tutelage of
Boonchu, an ambitious woman determined to assist disabled children to the
utmost.
We have been assisting them since 2005, mostly with
building improvements, including a major construction in 2009, when we built
a classroom-cum-physical therapy and sensory room in a joint venture with
the Herrod Foundation.
We continue to take on projects there and often work
together with the Pattaya International Ladies Club (PILC) and Pattaya
Sports Club (PSC).
Although the parents of the kids are generous in their
support of the school, they still fall short in terms of meeting costs for
basic necessities. So we also give them 10,000 baht a month for shopping
trips at Tesco Lotus in Ban Chang for bulk food, cleaning supplies and
toiletries.
Share Love with a Friend Project in cooperation with
Sam and the Nongprue Municipality is aimed at augmenting the diets of
disabled kids of impoverished families in the area.
Initially, in June last year, we started supplying 6000
baht a month for rice distribution to these families, but since then we have
bumped it up to 9000 baht, so we could also include milk.
We personally go along on these outings to see where the
foodstuff goes and to discern how we might be able to help further. And, as
a result, we have found several ‘special cases’, or persons, who needed
additional assistance, such as wheelchairs, walking aids, as well as
essential furniture, appliances, and modifications to their motorbikes to
accommodate side cars so as to facilitate the parents getting around with
their disabled kids.
The benefits of these monthly trips to the above
projects, not only allow us to monitor the processes, but also to stay in
direct touch with the very kids and parents we are supporting. Doing the
latter gives us continuous impetus to stay the course and keep moving
forward.
If you too would like to help the underprivileged
children, please visit us at www.care4kids.info and/or
www.facebook.com/jesterscare.forkids.
Please also remember that our main events in Pattaya are: the Children’s
Fair, Sunday, September 9th and Gala Party Night Saturday, September 22nd.
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