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A joyous day at the Camillian Social Center
Thai Garden Resort and the Pattaya Mail led a delegation to the Camillian Center in Rayong to draw to a close a joint project that was initiated during Cristina Bien’s Charity Concert at the launch of the Pattaya Blatt, the German newspaper published by the Pattaya Mail Publishing Company.
At the launch party almost 100,000 Baht was raised from the auctioning of a return ticket to Germany donated by Emirates Airlines, other plane tickets from Swiss International Air Lines, Min’s Travel and the sale of entry tickets to the party.
Early this month, at a ceremony in City Hall representatives from both establishments presented 40,999 baht to the YWCA to supplement their scholarship funds and a donation of 15,000 baht was also made to Pol. Lt. Col. Jirat Pichitpai to help support his most dedicated work in taking care of children who have been lured into the abuse of drugs and are being treated at the Ban Poonsri Ouppatham Drug Rehabilitation Centre.
Another amount was designated to be donated to the Camillian Social Centre in Rayong, which cares for children born with AIDS.
While the children enjoy their icecream and sweets, Tony Malhotra and Elfi Seitz present 41,000 baht on behalf of Pattaya Blatt and Thai Garden Resort to Father Giovanni and Father Ernesto.
The center is under the care of two priests of the Camillian Order, Fathers Giovanni and Ernesto who have dedicated their lives to the caring for these unfortunate children. More than 80 patients are taken care of at the center including 26 HIV infected children.
Upon arrival the delegation was welcomed by children aged between 1 1/2 and 13 years who sang songs and showed off their dancing skills.
The children entertain their benefactors with songs and dances.
Tony Malhotra and Elfi Seitz presented 41,000 baht on behalf of Pattaya Blatt and Thai Garden Resort. Alston Power, a guest at the resort, made another generous donation of 6800 baht. Upon receiving the money, Father Giovanni said: “With this amount we can help a few more children. Right now we acquire medicine for them at a low cost of 5,000 baht per month. Since the prices are cheaper now, we can take in more children, which was impossible a few months ago, because it was so expensive.” One of the older girls gave a short moving speech to thank the guests for their caring and their help.
Father Ernesto and Father Giovanni also thanked the benefactors by expressing their gratitude for the ongoing assistance that the center receives from both the organisations.
Share Your Heart and receive a smile
Sunshine Radio’s charity project to provide for needy children
by Suwanthep Malhotra
Sunshine Radio F.M. 107.75 MHz Pattaya has been organizing various social and community charity projects since 1998. Fittingly, the theme has been ‘Tawan Yim’ or the Smiling Sun. Their main purpose for arranging these events is to help give poor children a decent education, including sports and the fundamental requirements of life. This project has received overwhelming support both from listeners of the radio programmes and from various sponsors who have been instrumental in providing much-needed items for children at many rural schools on the Eastern Seaboard.
This year under the new theme of ‘Share your heart and receive a smile’, the organizers have planned an excursion to three primary schools in Sriracha and Sattahip: the Ban Khao Chee Chan School in Sattahip, and the Ban Khao Tabaek School and Wat Nong Khla School in Sriracha.
Children at the Ban Khao Tabaek School in Sriracha enjoy sharing their hearts and bringing smiles to everyone.
Educational conditions in these schools are really very poor and they are in dire need of an assortment of educational and sporting goods, including school uniforms, books, stationery, floor mats, tables and chairs for dining, crockery, cutlery, rice, and agricultural plants and seeds to be sowed in the little plots of land at the schools. The need for all kinds of sporting goods, which would be most beneficial to the children’s physical and mental development, is also part of the list of things that will be taken along for the children.
The organizers have set up 12 locations to receive donations of any items that can be useful to the underprivileged students: V.C. Spot Production (at the V.C. Hotel), M.C.O.T. Radio Station Pattaya, Central Festival Center Pattaya, Pacific Park Sriracha, Tops Supermarket Pattaya, Robinson Sriracha, Phoenix Chonburi, Laemthong Department Store Ban Saen, Royal Garden Plaza Pattaya, B2S, Lotus South Pattaya, and the Bangkok Pattaya Hospital.
An expected ninety radio fans plus 35 staff and supporters will travel by busses to these schools on September 14, leaving at 7 a.m. and returning at 3 p.m. Once at the schools, participants will attend the donation ceremonies and join in various activities, which include having lunch with the school children. Anyone interested in joining this most worthwhile excursion can contact any of the above-mentioned venues for more information.
Lions Clubs present Thai language encyclopedias to schoolchildren in Banglamung
Children from various schools that have been selected for the 8th National Youth Encyclopedia GK (general knowledge) question and answer competition, which will be held on November 23, received the latest version of Thai language encyclopedias to aid them in sharpening their minds. These precious encyclopedias are not available elsewhere except at the Jitrladda Palace, Bangkok.
Naris Petcharat, district governor of Lions Club International district 310-C, Wiwat Pattanasin, president of the Lion Clubs of Pattaya, Pramot Pattanasin, president of the Lions Club of Pattaya-Naklua, and Paul Davis, president of the Lions Club of Jomtien-Pattaya attended the seminar held at the A-One Royal Cruise Hotel Pattaya.
 A teacher and student from Pattaya School No. 7 were amongst the grateful recipients of the special Thai language encyclopedias, which are not available anywhere else but the Jitrladda Palace in Bangkok.
The competition is divided into two categories, children of Prathom 4-6 and children of Mathayom 1-3. All were selected from 15 schools situated in Banglamung District.
Children who score 10 points from the selection competition will be eligible to compete in the semi-final at the Dusit Royal Palace, Bangkok on December 21.
Schoolchildren clean the beach in honor of Her Majesty The Queen
In honor of Her Majesty the Queen’s birthday on August 12, Sanan Cha-em, Laem Chabang district governor led schoolchildren to join the clean up of Au-udom Beach, organized by the community committee, Wat Mai Nern Phayom School, and Thai oil Co. Ltd.
The Children’s Drawing Contest
by Lewis Underwood
Since our 2nd Annual Jesters Children’s Fair held on the grounds of the Amari Orchid Resort in 2000, we have featured one of the children’s drawings from the Fountain of Life’s Children’s Center on our Event T-shirt.
Our first white event T-shirts in 1999 simply had an enlarged child’s face with a ‘Care 4 Kids’ on the front, while the back of the shirt featured a Harley V-Twin engine within a red heart and included the logo of the Fountain of Life Center and a smaller version of the child’s face from the front of the shirt within a yellow circle with a ‘Care 4 Kids’ footer. The latter has now become the identifying logo for our Jesters Care for Kids Charity Drive and was designed by Neville Pick. (Note: We changed the name of our Charity Drive from ‘Care 4 Kids’ to ‘Care for Kids’ in 2001 after some confusion arose from the public that our cause was benefiting only four children yearly.)
 Though the back design has hardly changed over the years, except in size to accommodate our wonderful growing list of Platinum Sponsors’ logos, we decided in 2000 to adorn the front of the shirts with drawings from the children after seeing some of their work displayed on the wall at the old Center. We rounded up the dozen or so drawings and the organizing committee picked the one they not only liked the most, but also felt would look best on the front of our shirts.
Subsequently we came up with the idea of awarding the winning child with a bicycle on the stage during our Fair just before the Children’s Raffle drawing. Since then we now get 50 to 60 drawings a year from the children of the Center, each artist hoping that this year he or she may be the lucky one to win the prize.
 It is pertinent to mention that both last year and this one Phil Sagar from the Pattaya Trader has graciously donated the bicycle for the winning child, for which we are especially grateful. Also, since last year our shirts have been supplied and printed by Baltex Industries, who not only provide an attractive garment but also a very comfortable material of cotton and polyester to wear.
Our Event T-shirts are now available at Shenanigans, the Tahitian Queen and Viking Beachcomber in Western sizes from small to XXXL in adult sizes, as well as two children’s sizes. Shirts sell for 300 baht apiece or two for 500 baht. To see a sample of our latest Event T-shirt, including the beautiful Lycra cyclist shirt made for the Sponsored Bike Ride participants, also by Baltex Industries, please log on to our website: www.care4kids.info
In honor of Her Majesty the Queen’s birthday on August 12, Sanan Cha-em, Laem Chabang district governor led schoolchildren to join the clean up of Au-udom Beach, organized by the community committee, Wat Mai Nern Phayom School, and Thai oil Co. Ltd.
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