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Local charities benefit from SOS Rice 2000 and 2001

Pacharint Wimut and Antakorn Sanohkant wed

Local charities benefit from SOS Rice 2000 and 2001

Veerachai Somchart

Surat Mekawarakul, chairman of the SOS Rice 2000 and 2001 fund raising project, and Father Pichan Chaiseri, the project public relations coordinator, presided over a ceremony to present over 800,000 baht to local schools and charities. The funds were raised during this year’s SOS Rice campaign. The presentation ceremony, which took place on May 9, was held at the Pattaya Green Park Resort Hotel.

Banglamung district chief Vichien Chawalit (right) presented some of the proceeds from the SOS Rice campaign to Lt. Colonel Jirat Phichitpai of the Ban Phoonsri Drug Rehab Center as Father Pichan announced the proceedings.

Portions of the donated funds will support all 10 of Pattaya’s city schools, as well as 12 other schools around Pattaya.

Other organizations that also received supported included the Ban Phoonsri Uppathum Drug Treatment Center, the Pattaya Redemptorist School for the Blind, the Redemptorist Vocational School, Bang Lamung Children’s Home, Sirinthorn Professional Training Center, and the Pattaya Redemptorist Home for Street Children.

Surat Mekawarakul, chairman of the SOS Rice 2000 and 2001 campaign presents a donation to a representative from one of Pattaya’s city schools.

Belgian businessman Didier Frere first organized the SOS Rice program in 1986. That first year, the campaign raised 30,000 baht, which was presented to Father Ray at the Pattaya City Orphanage. The program has continued each year since, with the help of local businesses. The fund-raiser still supports the orphanage, but also helps a long list of other charitable programs in the surrounding communities.

Local TAT director Manit Bunchim presents an SOS check to the Redemptorist School for Blind.

This year, the program was organized into two segments, the first starting in November and continuing into January 2001, when nearly 600,000 baht in cash donations and 7,125 kilograms of rice worth 142,500 baht was collected from shopping outlets around Pattaya and Chonburi.

Over 366,000 baht in cash, and rice donations totaling almost 11,000 kilograms worth 218,500 baht, were collected during the second segment of the campaign, bringing the grand total to 1,208,406 baht.

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Pacharint Wimut and Antakorn Sanohkant wed

Chakrapong Akkaranant

After four years of getting acquainted, on May 4 Pacharint Wimut and Antakorn Sanohkant, two former of students the Pattaya Redemptorist Vocational School, decided to go for broke and tie the knot for good. The couple’s guest of honor was the school’s director, Father Patrick Morrissey.

The newlywed couple and their wedding party at their reception at the Amari Orchid Resort.

Friends, relatives from both families and special guests filled the reception room at the Amari Orchid Resort Hotel, celebrating the joyous occasion.

The newlyweds told of how they first met almost five years ago whilst attending the computer course at the Redemptorist Vocational School in Pattaya. The liaison started out as a friendship with common interests, both helping each other through the course. But the relationship steadily became more meaningful and their love grew until finally they decided to marry.

The handsome groom, Antakorn, is a computer programmer working for the Pattaya Cement Company on Sukhumvit and Central Road. He became physically handicapped after a highway accident and is confined to a wheelchair. The beautiful bride, Pacharint, was hit by polio at the age of 10, and since doctors were unable to prevent the disease at the time, it retarded the growth in both legs.

Despite their physical handicaps - love abounds, and the young newlyweds have agreed to save up for the future and hope for children some day. Best wishes to both from Pattaya Mail.

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