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Pre-World AIDS Day event brings message home to young people
Narisa Nitikarn
Central Festival Center was the venue on October 24 for
an exhibition and educational event that was a lead-up to World AIDS Day,
which is held on December 1 every year.
Contraceptive
booths with games were part of the exhibition.
Supporting the Staying Alive for World AIDS Day project,
a national campaign, were UNICEF Thailand, the Ability of Children
Foundation, Youth Links for AIDS Thailand, and MTV Thailand.
(L to R)
Bernie Tuppin, charity chairman of the Pattaya Sports Club, Nitaya
Patimasongkroh, president of the YWCA Bangkok-Pattaya Center, Siraprapha
Khunplome, president of the Pattaya Youth Activity Consultation Center, and
Natthaya Sriwaralak of Banglamung School.
The Ability of Children Foundation and Youth Links for
AIDS Thailand have been the chief organizers nationwide, with road shows
taking place in 12 provinces. Chonburi was included amongst the 12, with
Pattaya City Activity Youth Center working in conjunction with the main
organizers.
Opening presenter was Siraprapha Khunplome, president of
the Pattaya Youth Activity Consultation Center, while Nittaya
Patimasongkroh, chairwoman of the YWCA Bangkok-Pattaya Center, Bernie
Tuppin, charity chairman of the Pattaya Sports Club, and Natthaya Sriwaralak
of Banglamung School all helped preside over the event.
An exhibition with educational activities, Staying Alive
featured information booths, advice on contraceptives, paintings, games, and
a consultant service.
All activities stressed the acceptance and understanding of the problems
facing youth, and the ways in which young people can learn more about the
spread of AIDS and how to avoid infection.
Young
people and other members of the public attend the activities of Staying
Alive for World AIDS Day.
Joseph Upatham School visits Regent’s to learn about IDEALS
On Monday October 31, a delegation of teachers from The
Joseph Upatham School in Nakhon Pathom visited the Regent’s School,
Pattaya. Their main objective was to experience the working day at
Regent’s and to learn as much as they could about how Regent’s delivers
the 6 Pillars of the Round Square, IDEALS (international understanding,
democracy, environmental awareness, adventure, leadership and service to
others) to our students.
Regent’s
head students welcome the delegates from Joseph Upatham School at the
entrance of the Round Square complex.
Group
photo of the delegation with Kung, Pom and Natasha by the Regent’s
fountain.
The visitors were met at the front of the Primary Round
Square complex by the head students, Ishita and Kung. A tour of the primary
school was then led by the senior members of the primary Round Square
Council, Sea and Nancy, finishing with refreshments outside the Globe
theatre. The delegation was then joined by 10 senior students that
represented a fraction of the secondary Round Square Council. They
included: prefects, senior house captains, pillar leaders, RS leaders and
delegates, Global Connects, Boarder’s Council members and the executive
positions of the Student Guild (chairperson, secretary and treasurer).
After refreshments an hour’s presentation was
delivered by Mr. Mike Walton, the head of Regent’s, Mr. Paul Crouch and
Kung, explaining the history of Round Square and how the Regent’s
delivers IDEALS through the curriculum, activities, house system, service
projects, international exchanges and scholarships, International Award,
Amnesty International, and democratic systems set up by the students to
allow leadership and decision making within the school’s community
(councils and guilds).
Lunch was taken and then a tour of the secondary school
building, led by the secondary Student Guild. By mid-afternoon the visit
was over and gifts were exchanged under the Regent’s clock tower.
The delegates from Joseph Upatham School kindly invited
Regent’s to visit their school and to work closely on developing IDEALS
at their school in the future, and help prepare students for life as global
citizens after school and university.
If you would like to know more about Round Square and IDEALS or would
like to support any of the Round Square projects at The Regent’s, please
e-mail: [email protected]
BPH supports youth activities
Suchada Tupchai
Dr
Chakraphan Phongsathian (2nd from left), Bangkok Pattaya Hospital vice
president, and Kamchorn Suriyasin (far right), Bangkok Pattaya Hospital
asst vice president present money to Dharinee Jeeranaiphong, deputy
director of Pattaya School #8 to buy uniforms for the school military band.
Bangkok Pattaya Hospital has presented 14,000 baht to Pattaya School #8
for the purchase of uniforms for the school military band to wear at
international competitions. The donation was made on October 27 by hospital
vice president Dr Chakraphan Phongsathian, who presented the funds to the
school’s deputy director Dharinee Jeeranaiphong.
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