Rave on GIS students

AFT treats children to lunch at Eastern Child Welfare Protection Institution

Rave on GIS students

It’s been quite a year for the literary lights of Garden International School, Rayong.

Vanessa reciting her poem in assembly

Raviroch Sagul-Chuang (13) won the 10,000 baht top prize in the nationwide Ovaltine Story Writing Contest. The event, organized by the Bangkok Post Student Weekly, Novartis Nutririon (Thailand) and the Ministry of Education asked entrants to write a piece titled, “How Sports Can Fight Drugs”. Raviroch’s short fiction story about the life of David, a drug addicted teenager from a broken home who uses sport to conquer his addiction, ousted hundreds of other entries to win the competition in the lower-secondary level.

Raviroch receiving his certificate from Mr. Sly

Vanessa Vichayakul (14) recently topped the polls in a worldwide Internet poetry competition. The Rayong teen’s untitled poem about the plight of a homeless girl on the streets of New York was a winning entry in Alloy.com’s poetry-slam competition and was published on the company’s teen magazine website. Her poem:

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I know a girl
Whose eyes burn like cigarettes.
Her hair is a whipped frenzy
In the cool autumn wind,
When the leaves catch in it
She is ablaze.
Her face flushed like the sea at sunset
A salmon fish
Riding the lacy waves.
Her white wool coat
Greyed, it patches over her
As old almost
As she appears to be.
I see her hands, grasping her body
Weather worn and wrinkled
Dirt rubbed into the creases until
It is all one.
But that fiery glint and gleam
In her eye
And the flick of her wrist as she extinguishes her lite
So old, so young.
Revelling when the people duck
As they pass her by
On her worn street corner
Camouflaged into the wall
With the lone trees
Whipping the leaves into her hair
And in the twilight
Her eyes burning like cigarettes
Against the trash can fire.
Everyone ducks as they pass
So they don’t see
That glint in her eye
So young, so old
For fourteen.

AFT treats children to lunch at Eastern Child Welfare Protection Institution

More than 20 representatives from the Association of Filipinos in Thailand - Eastern Region Chapter organized a lunch for children at the Eastern Child Welfare Protection Institution in Rayong, led by President Virginia Sorensen.

The AFT-ERC and all the children at the Eastern Child Welfare Protection Institution in Rayong had a fun day.

Held on July 14, members of the association came to the institution with meals made for the kids. The Filipino group included some very good cooks. The children loved the food and there was little left over. Dishes included spaghetti and hamburgers, always a big favorite with youngsters.

Two hundred boys and girls laughed and giggled as they played balloon games, and the guests were particularly impressed with a special musical performance by the children.

President Virginia Sorensen enjoys playing a game with balloons along with the children.

Deep appreciation was conveyed to the Filipino members by the intuition and a lot of photos were taken as mementos to mark the occasion.

The AFT-ERC would also like to say thanks to Friendship Supermarket, as they have given the AFT-ERC great support.

The AFT-ERC arranged a food and equipment donation to the children at the Eastern Child Welfare Protection Institution in Rayong.

The Eastern Child Welfare Protection Institution cares for orphaned children from ages 7 to 18 years. During their stay children receive education, proper nutrition, health care and are raised in an atmosphere of loving care which helps them enter society as good citizens.

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