By Tom Rosen | Managing Director
Before we begin to update you on our recent activities, we would like to take a moment to thank everyone who has donated to this project. The support from generous individuals like yourself enables us to promote sustainable community development in Southeast Asia.
Over the past few months, we've been busy ensuring that the youth at the Koung Jor Shan refugee camp are able to reach their full potential by providing them with new educational resources. Each year we supply all students with their own English textbooks along with materials for the talented and dedicated local teachers. Before we started providing these resources, the children would have to share old grammar books which lacked colour, pictures and activities. Now they are able to learn English in a fun and interactive way which greatly increases their future educational and employment opportunities. This is illustrated by the following quote from an old student at Koung Jor:
“It is very important for us to be able to speak English because when I applied for jobs I was interviewed in English. Fortunately, as I have English skills I was accepted to work in a restaurant in Chiang Mai. The shopkeeper tells me that my English is better than the other people at our shop and I can also communicate with foreigners as well”.
In addition to supplying educational materials, we also build the capacity of the teachers by holding training sessions. These workshops act as an opportunity to equip the teachers with the latest teaching techniques as well providing them with new classroom activities to make learning an engaging experience. Our upcoming teacher training session takes place next week so we'll make sure to update you about it soon.
Lastly, we'd like to wish you all a happy festive season. It's at this time of year we should put aside the commercialism all to often associated with this period to remember the true spirit of giving and what a difference we can make to each other's lives.
With sincere gratitude,
Tom Rosen and The Branch Foundation Team
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