On Friday 23rd January we were privileged to have Mechai Viravaidya from the Village Development Project at The Regent’s School. He spoke to all the students from Years 6, 7, 8 and 9 in the Globe theatre. He came to talk about the School-Bird project which is aimed at moving the rural poor out of poverty through educational programmes and the support of local businesses. The idea is to set up social enterprises which focus on skills and profits.
We are fortunate to have been selected as a beacon school in our area to trial and develop a school based farm. This will run as a business enterprise, which the students will lead and make all decisions as a group. This will eventually lead to these students training others in the setting up and running of a farm.
Mechai Viravaidya talks to Regents students about the School-Bird project.
Initially 27 students have volunteered to take part in training which is being offered by the Birds and Bees Resort in Pattaya. They will then design a programme for growing limes, cantaloupes, bean sprouts and mushrooms, initially. These will hopefully be sold to our own community (the school canteen and parents). This is an exciting long term project to be involved in that hopefully will help develop many skills for own students and also help maintain our close links with other local Community Partners.
