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Pratamnak-Pattaya Lions Club donates eyeglasses to children
Ariyawat Nuamsawat
Pratamnak-Pattaya Lions Club, led by Nittaya
Patimasongkroh, president of its Sight-First Project, recently donated
eyeglasses to 259 students from 14 schools in Pattaya and Banglamung.
 (From
left) Nittaya Patimasongkroh, president of the Sight-First Project; Suchai
Ruairin, former Pattaya City mayor; Yodthong Senanan, Pattaya consultant;
and Police Lieutenant Jirat Pichitpai, director of Ban Poolsri Uppatham,
present eyeglasses to students.
The donation was made at Pattaya 8 School on May 19.
The Lions’ Sight-First Project aims to help needy
children in Pattaya and Banglamung who have eyesight problems. This year the
club also donated two computers to Wat Kaopoethong School and one to Ban
Tunglaharn School. This charitable activity was financially supported by
Pattaya Sports Club (20,000 baht), by YWCA (10,000 baht) and by the Pattaya
Sikh Association (5,000 baht).
Nittaya said, “The International Lions Club started the
Sight-First Project 14 years ago. We want this to help improve the
children’s eyesight, which is definitely conducive to their studies.”
Lions Clubs throughout Thailand participate in the Sight-First Project
within their local communities.
Orphaned children find new friends during afternoon of fun
Over 200 orphaned and non-orphaned
children played together and had fun in an afternoon of building bridges
and overcoming bridges.
The event was hosted by Rotary Club of TaksinPattaya on
Saturday afternoon, May 15.
Over
200 children played together and had fun in an afternoon of building
bridges and overcoming bridges, thanks to the Rotary Club of Taksin
Pattaya and other benevolent organizations.
A hundred orphaned children came from the orphanages
Banglamung Boys Home and the Ban Jing Jai (Sincerity House), and were
joined by other children from Pattaya.
The Rotary Club was supported by voluntary helpers,
including some from the “Herrenclub” a German-speaking Gentleman’s
Club led by Kurt Krieger. The event was promoted by the Pattaya
International School and the Montessori Children’s Center International
(MCCI).
The MCCI and the World Gems Collection organized
transport for the children from the orphanages. The Tropicana Hotel
provided equipment in the Bavaria Beer Garden, where the children of
various ages were entertained with games like table tennis, football,
tennis and ring throwing, and fed generously.
“Bodo” took the kids for fun-rides in his fancy
decorated tuk-tuk.
The adult helpers also joined in the fun, like
German-born Bernd Decker, a member of the Rotary Club Chantanamit, who
used the occasion to celebrate a late Carnival with the children in
tropical heat.
Dieter H Precourt, Rotary Club of TaksinPattaya president, was very
satisfied and said, “The aim of this event has been completely
fulfilled. The children not only had an afternoon of fun and games
together. Also the mutual understanding and acceptance has been
strengthened and I spoke to many families who intend to keep the contact
to the orphaned children alive.”
Pattaya Marriott Resort & Spa treats children at Ban Jingjai
Staff Reporters
Pattaya Marriott Resort & Spa Hotel has treated Ban
Jingjai’s children with food, beverage and snacks as part of its “Spirit
to Serve our Communities” social activities program.
Project manager of Ban Jingjai Piengta Chumnoi and the
children in Soi Nernplubwan gave a warm welcome to Marriott Resort & Spa
Hotel management and staff.
Kru Ta
leads the children in prayer before having a meal.
The annual social activity aims at helping underprivileged people,
especially children and youth. Its purpose is to encourage these people to
live happily and get along well with others in society. This year the hotel
and it staff treated 50 children at Ban Jingjai. Everyone enjoyed the event
in a warm and happy climate.
New GIS building receives good workout
Blair Lockhart
Garden International School
Garden International School recently moved into its new
four-story building, completing the International School’s move from the
Phase 1 building.
With the new building comes many new rooms for greater
flexibility and space. The superb new hall has ample space for each
class’s assembly performance. Teachers can use the hall or the new music
room for their assemblies.
 The
Year 4 cast takes a curtain call after a great performance the other primary
classes thoroughly enjoyed.
The Year 4 class was the first class privileged enough to
make use of the school hall for an assembly. They preformed Gladiator with
Matthijs Maximus as the lead character.
In the play, Matthijs Maximus and the other gladiators
battle the treacherous emperor and his guards. Just like in the movie,
everyone dies, but not before some good sword fighting and memorable acting
by the Year 4 class.
The play was thoroughly enjoyed by the other primary
classes and it was a good way to inaugurate the new hall after the primary
school move.
The Year 4 teacher, Mr. Wilkinson says the use of acting
is a good skill for students to learn because acting is not just saying
words.
Next on the agenda, the Garden International School hall will be hosting
the annual book week assembly, where staff and students dress up as their
favourite book characters.
Time to “tack-up”
A Pony Camp journal
by Emily Westmoreland
We arrived at the St. Andrews Equestrian Centre stables
on Friday 9th, April at 9 a.m. We dumped our bags in the tack room
(literally), checked out which ponies we were working on, grabbed them
from the field and groomed and saddled them up.
After we’d checked that we’d filled our ponies’
needs we all met in the “kid’s stable” for a briefing on which
chores each person was responsible for. (This pony camp was not all
leisure activities - we were totally responsible for our ponies for 2
whole days.)
This
pony camp was not all leisure activities - we were totally responsible for
our ponies for 2 whole days.
Once we were all certain of where to go and what to do,
the first group of riders took their ponies for a ride whilst the second
group mucked out stables. During the second hour the roles were switched
and my group got to ride.
When all the riding was over it was feeding time for
the ponies; and we learned exactly what each pony got to eat and why. Our
ponies at St. Andrews seemed to eat better than we did at home, with good
quality pellets, sunflower seeds, oil, molasses, minerals, electrolytes
and calcium - wow!
 Once
we were all certain of where to go and what to do, the first group of
riders took their ponies for a ride.
Then it was our turn to eat and we were hungry. Alison
had provided sandwiches, fruit and orange juice for lunch. After lunch we
all went for a wonderful swim at the Green Valley swimming pool.
After our break there were lots more pony chores to do
such as a good grooming for the ponies, more mucking out - a never ending
job it seems! And cleaning water buckets, making hay nets, etc. During the
afternoon ride the non-riding group was responsible for cleaning tack
which was fun because we could all have a good chat. We also lent a hand
at pitching the tents for sleeping at night.
When the ponies were washed and fed and put to bed for
the night, we all put on our swimming suits again and washed ourselves at
the pony wash rack. After spraying ourselves and each other with water and
slurping soap down each others backs we got into our PJ’ s for dinner.
Alison again provided a yummy dinner of barbequed hot
dogs, salad, bread, fruit and Tirza’s mum had left us some marshmallows
(thank you Carla). We were stuffed and lay groaning on the bales of hay in
the hay barn. To work off dinner, we played “40-40” and hide and seek
until we sat panting on the grass.
After evening pony check in which we refilled water
buckets and made sure all the ponies and horses were happy we lay down in
our sleeping bags and ... Of course, we couldn’t sleep - it was soooo
hot! Alison send us packing into the tack room where there is a fan but we
still couldn’t sleep, so at 11 p.m. we loaded ourselves into the van and
went to stay at Alison’s air-conditioned bedrooms for the night - phew,
thank goodness.
The next morning, we started at 7 a.m. with breakfast,
grooming, tacking up, etc., and we had an outride in the pineapple fields.
After washing, feeding, mucking out, etc., we went to Alison’s house
again and had a nice lunch, rest and swim. In the afternoon instead of a
normal ride we had the stable’s favorite activity - gymkhana or as it is
sometimes called “Mounted Games”.
Getting ready for the games was easy, as was sorting
out the teams of riders and ponies. We had to make sure some of the less
advanced riders were paired with the more advanced riders in each team.
The same went for the pony teams, an easy pony with a more challenging
pony. And to make it more fair, the pony teams were switched for each new
game. We played 6 different games in all and they were all fun. We were
all exhausted at the end of it but we still made sure the ponies were
taken care of before treating ourselves to a refreshment snack. When you
work with ponies and horses there are always things that need to be done
and most important they need to be done everyday even when you are tired
or sick.
When all the chores were done and we were waiting for
our parents to come, Alison sat us all down to congratulate us for all our
hard work and dedication. “I’ve got some ribbons for you to thank you
for all your hard work. The red ribbons will be awarded to those that did
a great job around the stables, and the blue ones are going to those who
did more than what they were expected to and were always finding extra
work to do (as there is always extra work to do when working with horses).
She awarded the red ribbons to Kaitlyn, Naomi and
Amalie and the blue ones to Jodie, Eline, Anneleen, Cara, Tirza, Michelle
and myself. She mentioned that if Anna, Catrine and Ruben had been able to
complete the camp they too would have received their awards, but sadly
they had to go home due to headaches.
With pride from owning a ribbon (my first one) we swept up the stable
area and did some other chores while waiting for our parents.
Jesters ‘Care For Kids’ Charity Drive 2004: “Kids in Want, Kids at Risk, Kids in Need of Your Help”
By Lewis Underwood
The 7th annual Jesters ‘Care for Kids’ Charity Drive
is already heading full-speed ahead for September, and we warmly invite you
to come along.
Last year was a banner year for Jesters ‘Care for
Kids’ when over 4 million baht was raised and, since its inception in
1998, our charity drives have raised and distributed over 14 million baht to
needy causes that benefit disadvantaged children on the Eastern Seaboard.
 The
first two editions of our letter seeking corporate sponsorship have already
been sent out and secured 12 Platinum sponsors: Baltex Industries, The
Classroom, Foster Wheeler, Kvaerner E & C, Laem Chabang International
Terminal (LCIT), MBMG International, Nevada, Nirvana Resorts, Pattaya Mail,
Pattaya Sports Club, Shenanigans and SJ Lake Consulting Services.
Our new design for this year’s event shirt, featuring
the names and logos of the 12 Platinum sponsors on the back, has already
gone to print for its first edition and we have kept space on the back to
include additional Platinum sponsors on the next, and future, production
runs.
Some new beneficiaries have been added to our ever
growing list including Happiness Camp, an encounter group for students
attending government schools with their teachers, where the emphasis during
their sessions focuses on customs, morals and etiquette, as well as the
importance of independent thinking, self-esteem and creativity.
Another addition is our ‘Next Step’ program that will
provide for those young adults who have gone through the government schools
on scholarships provided by the Fountain of Life Center, and who now need
scholarships to continue their education at the university or technical
college level.
Of course, we continue our solid support for the Fountain
of Life Center, which provides an invaluable service to the poor kids of the
community, by obtaining birth certificates for those born outside hospitals,
rudimentary education, medical and dental care and scholarships for entering
government schools.
We will also maintain helping the Pattaya Redemptorist
School for the Blind and the Eastern Child Welfare Protection Institute in
Huay Pong, where we have just completed our third project. The latter, the
renovation of the concrete dormitory on the boys’ side, is a joint venture
with the Pattaya International Ladies Club (PILC), the Rayong Ladies Circle
(RLC), and Pattaya Sports Club (PSC).
The official opening of this dormitory will be at 10 a.m.
on Saturday June 19 at Huay Pong.
Our two main fund-raising events are the Jesters
Children’s Fair & Family Day on Sunday, September 12, once again at
the Diana Garden Resort and Driving Range, followed by the Jesters Pub Night
on Saturday, September 18 at Shenanigans.
Other ways you can contribute to our charity drive at
this stage, besides making donations, is to place advertising in our 48 page
Children’s Fair program guide, offer prizes or vouchers for our Pub Night
Grand Raffle, and/or items for the Pub Night Auction.
If you would like to help us help the needy children in
our community, please do not hesitate to contact us by e-mail at
[email protected]
Note: Breaking News! Rieckermann Thai Engineering
gave the ok and became the 13th Platinum sponsor. Thank you Rieckermann Thai
Engineering.
PSC donates funds to help
pay Ban Jingjai’s rent
Suchada Tupchai
The Pattaya Sport Club has donated 81,000 baht to Ban
Jingjai to help pay the rent.
Ban Jingjai project manager Piengta Chumnoi and the
children welcomed the PSC benefactors at Ban Jingjai in Soi Nernplubwan with
deep gratitude.
Pattaya
Sport club charity chairman Bernie Tuppin and Kru Ta Piengta Chumnoi with
the children from Ban Jingjai.
“This donation is a way to help the children. We have
always done such charitable activities for Ban Jingjai as we hope to make
their lives better,” said the club’s charity chairman Bernie Tuppin.
“The funds which will help to pay the rent will lessen their anxiety.”
Kru Ta Piengta said, “Ban Jingjai consists of two houses, one for boys
and the other for girls. We now have a total of 50 children in our care and
have to pay the house rent of about 13,500 baht a month. We have
continuously been supported for this expense by many people and
organizations. But now the number of children is increasing, so the other
expenses are also increasing. As a result, we need more support and to save
fuel and teach the children to cut down on expenses.”
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