Education Thailand Project #25098

Help Educate Children Living in Poverty inThailand

by Action Change (Formerly GVI Trust)

Project Report | Oct 19, 2017
Tree's of hope

By Billy Hepton | Community Field Staff

This quarter the community team has seen many exciting advancements! Something old and something new with our healthcare project! We began teaching healthy lifestyles and behaviours to GRHE-FED, a new community partner! Meanwhile with one of our longest partners, the Camillian Social Centre by the Sharing for Life foundation, we trialled a new regime for the students based around choice. Providing the students with a big group exercise activity before offering two activities centred on a collection of topics: sensory, craft, music, drama, games and more!

Meanwhile on the working with children project we continue to provide a high level of English teaching to several different schools in the area; including both Thai and Burmese schools. Our volunteers are provided with TEFL training from a team of qualified staff as well as lesson observations and feedback sessions assessing their development.

Thanks to your funding our volunteers have access to a huge assortment of resources to utilise in classes to ensure the classes stay creative and effective. Our community programs constantly require a range of resources from flash cards and white boards to arts and craft supplies. On top of these needs, we also require laptops to log information regarding our class sizes and gender ratios which helps monitor GVI’s progress in the Gender Equality sustainable development goal.

Thanks to donations received via the GVI trust we were able to successfully enlarge the garden at the CDC. On August 18th, staff worked at the New Hope Foundation School to create a school garden. The morning was spent tilling soil, placing cinderblocks, putting in potting soil, creating a trellis for beams and a shade structure for other crops, mulching and planting trees. Previously plants were being grown in cinderblock boxes. GVI funds were used to purchase cinderblocks, soil, and shade structure materials, seeds, a wheelbarrow and tools. The students have planted onions, tomatoes and celery into the beds already and will be planting many more crops when the season turns. This advancement included the purchase and addition of a trellis for growing beans, 6 trees and 3 in ground planters. The children are now able to gain practical experience and apply the knowledge from the agriculture class we have been teaching since the start of this academic year!

With Love,

Phang Nga Community

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Jul 28, 2017
Community Support Through Health and Fun!

By Max Bauer | Community Projects Coordinator

Gardening Time!

Dear Supporters,

Today we want to tell you about developments from 3 of our partner organisations.

Unified Learning Centre

One exciting new development that occurred this quarter is that GVI’s Healthcare volunteers began teaching health care education classes at The Unified Learning Centre (ULC). This is a local school set up by the Grassroots Human Rights Education & Development Foundation (GHRE). Their aim is to provide a safe environment for Burmese children to come and learn. These healthcare classes cover topics from basic hygiene and anatomy to having a healthy, balanced lifestyle, sports education, and much more.

A New Project at CDC

Another development this quarter is that this school year, GVI Phang Nga and The Community Development Centre (CDC) took on an exciting new project – a daily agriculture class, led by the GVI Teaching Children volunteers. This class is a great way for our volunteers to teach the CDC grades 6, 7, 8, and 9 students about different types of plants and their life cycles, organic gardening and the dangers of pesticides, common garden pests and diseases, and how to successfully maintain a garden. Along with teaching a wide variety of agricultural topics, GVI has also helped the CDC set up a small vegetable garden.

GVI helped the CDC construct and pay for the three planter boxes that our agriculture classes’ garden currently resides in, and we have hopes of expanding our garden to ten planters by the end of the academic school year. With an additional seven boxes constructed, the agriculture class could hopefully be responsible for growing a large portion of the fruits and vegetables that the CDC consumers on a daily basis.

Camillian Centre Update

One of our long term partners, The Camillian Social Centre, accepted two new pupils into their centre in April and May, bringing their total student count to 13. They’ve planted a large-scale vegetable garden to provide food for the centre, started a chicken farm with 300 chickens (The chickens were purchased entirely with donations- thank you!) to collect and sell eggs, started farming frogs and catfish, and have planted a number of fruit trees around the centre. One of the Phang Nga Service Learning groups recently helped Camillian make some planter boxes that will be used to grow herbs and spices as an addition to their garden. We have been able to support Camillian by buying one/third of their chickens.

Thank you for your continued support!

With Gratitude,
GVI Thailand

Tending to the seedlings

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May 5, 2017
The Second Annual Fun Run For Camillian

By Dora Szabados | GVI Phang Nga, Base Manager

Everyone who took part in the 2nd Annual Fun Run

Dear Supporters,

In December of 2016, the healthcare program here in Phang Nga embarked on a new and exciting project at the Camillian Social Center – we began holding daily physiotherapy sessions for the pupils who attend the centre. Completing these physiotherapy routines has allowed the physical capabilities of the pupils to develop before the eyes of our volunteers, however, we wanted to broaden the routines and push the student’s development.

That is why we decided to have the students show off their physical advancements by organising a fun run to raise money for the centre to advance further!

The challenge was simple - all Camillian pupils, GVI staff and volunteers, and the families of the Camillian pupils were to complete a 1.3-kilometer lap around the “Lamson” area of Ban Nam Khem.

On the day of the fun run, GVI volunteers decorated the Ban Nam Khem Tsunami Memorial Park to welcome our eager pupils and their siblings. We set off on the run around 9 am, making quick progress as we made our way around Ban Nam Khem. After finishing in just over an hour, everyone returned to the Tsunami Memorial for some lunch, pictures, and a water-balloon fight!

In total, we managed to raise over $450 for the Camillian Social Center, and we will continue to look at fundraising for this worthy cause. The money we raised is for general use at the Camillian Center, so it will go towards getting new physiotherapy/physical therapy/occupational therapy equipment for the centre, bringing in new and exciting materials for crafts and sensory related activities, and helping Camillian start a vegetable garden and chicken coop.

This longstanding partnership is one that captures the hearts of volunteers and staff alike and we look forward to helping the Camillian Centre in any way we can in the future.

Thank you for your support!

With Gratitude,
GVI Thailand

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