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Vocational School graduates receive certificates

TAT organizes Kanchanaburi trip for underprivileged youngsters

A full program of activities planned for Teachers’ Day

YWCA presents eyeglasses to students with defective vision

Vocational School graduates receive certificates

Mrs. Usa Chanrak (left), representing Ram Shoes Industries Co., Ltd., receives a thank you plaque from Fr. Lawrence Patin for employing the disabled.

Fr. Worawut Saraphan (left) presents the good student plaque for 2007
to Pat Tanticharoenwong.

Graduate students from the Vocational Redemptorist School in Pattaya receive their certificates from Fr. Lawrence Patin (right).

Teachers congratulate the graduating students.

Sawittree Namwiwatsuk
The Redemptorist Vocational School held a ceremony for the graduates of its two-year courses on December 8.
Father Lawrence Patin, the principal of the school, conducted the ceremony along with Father Worawut Saraphan.
There were 68 graduate students from three courses who attended the ceremony to be presented with their graduation certificates. Amongst these, 24 were electronics course students, 21 were from the management information system development course, and 10 from the computer and business English management course.
Fr Lawrence encouraged the graduates to always follow the four moral principles of His Majesty the King to conduct their lives.
Firstly, he said, you must think, say, and do with compassion. Secondly, help each other. Thirdly, be honest, and respect the rules and regulations. And lastly, do everything to the best of your ability.


TAT organizes Kanchanaburi trip for underprivileged youngsters

The Tourism Authority of Thailand Central Office Region 3 took 30 underprivileged children on a tour of Kanchanaburi on December 1.

Ariyawat Nuamsawat
The Tourism Authority of Thailand Central Office Region 3 took 30 underprivileged children on a tour of Kanchanaburi on December 1.
The children, who were from the Banglamung Home for Boys, boarded the 8 a.m. train at Pattaya accompanied by Mrs Pornsiri Manoharn, governor of the TAT.
TAT personnel acted as guides on the tour. The group traveled first to the Soldier Monument at Kanchanaburi, where Pornsiri laid a wreath and the children placed flowers. They then went on to the Bridge over the River Kwai, and traveled along part of the notorious Death Railway to Saparntamkrasae railway station, built at a dramatic curve in the route of the line.
At the end of the day, the children were taken back to Pattaya, having learned something of the dramatic role Thailand played in World War Two.


A full program of activities planned for Teachers’ Day

Sawittree Namwiwatsuk
A meeting to discuss the activities surrounding Teachers’ Day, which falls on January 16, was held on December 19 at Pattaya School No 9, with Deputy Mayor Wattana Chantanawaranon in the chair.

Deputy Mayor Wattana Chantanawaranon (right) and Thawatchai Rattanyu (left) director of the Pattaya Education Bureau.

Also present were Thawatchai Rattanyu, director of the Pattaya Education Department, and the principals of Pattaya Schools 1 to 10.
Pattaya Education Department organizes the activities surrounding Teachers’ Day, which is held each year as a mark of respect for those who pass on their knowledge to the nation’s young people.
The main activities will be held at Pattaya School No 2. A religious ceremony will be held in the morning, followed by the presentation of 10 plaques to teachers who have performed outstanding service during the year. A committee of administrators selects those receiving the awards.
The afternoon will see a sports competition, with male and female volleyball, a soccer competition with male and female teams, and a VIP soccer match between female teachers and Pattaya City administrators.
The day will end with a party, held from 8:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.


YWCA presents eyeglasses to students with defective vision

Dennis Willett presents a bicycle to one of the students.

Bernie Tuppin, (left) Pattaya Sports Club and President Jan Koos Abbink, (right) Rotary Club of Jomtien-Pattaya present scholarships to the students.

Mayor Niran Wattanasartsathorn (left) and mayoral advisor Itthipol Khunplome (right) present eyeglasses to student representatives.

(Left top right) Nittaya Patimasongkroh
and Dujduan Ruangwettiwong receive funds from mayoral advisor
 Itthipol Khunplome to continue this project.

Sawittree Namwiwatsuk
The YWCA Bangkok-Pattaya Center on December 18 presented 278 pairs of eyeglasses to students in Banglamung District.
Mayor Niran Wattanasartsathorn opened the presentation ceremony, which included mayoral advisor Itthipol Khunplome, chairwoman of the YWCA Bangkok-Pattaya Center Miss Dujduan Ruangwettiwong, and Nittaya Patimasongkroh, chairwoman of the YWCA’s Love at Different Ages Project.
Dujduan said the presentation of eyeglasses came under the YWCA’s Warm Family Project, which also distributed scholarships to impoverished and underprivileged students. Each time the committee from the association visited students who had received scholarships under the project, the members had seen how poor eyesight was preventing many of the children from studying.
The YWCA had therefore worked in conjunction with the Pattaya Social Welfare Department to identify those students who urgently required eyeglasses.
Students from 10 schools received 278 pairs of eyeglasses under the project. The YWCA also provided 54 more scholarships valued at 3,000 baht each to 23 schools, and presented 10 bicycles to students in three schools, to enable the youngsters who live in remote areas to more easily attend their classes.

Students from many schools
in Pattaya City were delighted to receive pairs of eyeglasses.