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Vocational
students graduate
Saksiri Uraiworn
Banglamung Intertech School awarded certificates to its 2008
graduates on March 21 at the Rumpeuypannee Hall of Jomtien Garden Resort
Pattaya.
 Bundit
Sriputtatangkoon, secretary of the Private Education Support Office,
presents certificates to Banglamung Intertech School graduates.
The ceremony was attended by Bundit Sriputtatangkoon, secretary of the
Private Education Support Office, and school directors Suchart Wongpipan and
Witoon Kerdkaew.
The school is a private vocational school in academic region 3 that offers
two levels of study; Certificate and Advanced Certificate.
Subject choices are accounting, sales, business computing, secretary,
logistics and hotel and tourism industry management.
Director Witoon said that the school aims to build a strong moral and
ethical foundation for students to make them happy and efficient people with
good career prospects.
105 advanced certificate students graduated from the class of 2008.
Teachers tackle school diseases
Teachers are taught how to
prevent the spread of disease in local schools.
Patcharapol Panrak
Sattahip Municipality held a training day for teachers on
disease prevention for school children on March 24.
Sattahip Mayor Narong Boonbanjerdsri presided over the training session
to prevent diseases spreading in schools, at the meeting room on the
second floor of Sattahip Municipality.
Teachers from Baan Tao Taan Kindergarten School, Bamrungsit Suksa
School, Sattahip Child Development Center, Singsamut School, Baan
Sattahip School, and Baan Rak Nursery Center joined the training.
Kanokpetch Jantawattanapan, public health lecturer, was the expert
instructor.
Rungroj Onwong, Sattahip deputy mayor, said that our society focuses on
the development of technology and rapid changes to the natural
environment which increases pollution, causing serious health problems.
The public health authorities see great importance in caring for
children in schools and preventing various diseases from spreading, so
training was given to teachers as they are basically the second parents
of these children, he said.
Narong said that many diseases are currently at risk of spreading, such
as dengue fever, diarrhea and chicken pox.
Asian University Business Faculty students visit local manufacturer
Before leaving for the
day, everyone gathers for a group photo.
Susan Joyce
On the afternoon of March 25, a group of BBA and MBA (Business
Faculty) students and faculty visited Summit Laemchabang Auto Body Work
Co. Ltd, an auto parts factory located in Laem Chabang Industrial
Estate.
In Thailand, Summit Corporation is the biggest supplier of outsourced
body parts for car assemblers; most of car companies in Thailand are
customers.
The purpose of the visit was to allow students to see a manufacturing
facility first hand and to witness some of the concepts learnt in the
classroom, such as production cost and production management,
manufacturing process and inventory control system.
Summit was founded by their president, Sunsurn Jurangkool. Adisak
Sittichai, production planning and logistics manager, hosted the visit
which the students found very interesting.
The factory visited employs 1,700 people and produces automotive body
parts and exhaust systems and the students were able to witness the
stamping press and welding assembly.
BBA students being shown
processes by Woravit Intharasarn,
assistant production manager.
Adisak Sittichai explains
the stamping process to Asian U visitors.
Adisak Sittichai,
production planning and logistics manager,
receives a souvenir from BBA student Surinya.
Regent’s holds Burma Action Week
Tom Rawlings
This year saw a new event at the Regent’s: Burma Action Week.
This was a week of activities designed to raise awareness of the human
rights situation in Burma, the abuses and lack of democratic freedom,
and designed also to collect funds.
 Mr.
Pickles endures classroom arrest for five full days.
The focal event of the week was Mr. Pickles, the Head of English, being
placed under house arrest for the week. Unable to leave his classroom
from Monday till Friday, Mr. Pickles’ imprisonment reflected the plight
of Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the National League for Democracy
(NLD) and main opponent of the military regime in Burma, who, at the age
of 64, has now been under house arrest for 13 of the last 19 years.
There are currently over 300 political prisoners being held in prisons
across Burma, subject to threats, torture and possible execution, along
with countless others that fail to stay within the rigid confines of the
Junta’s repressive laws.
In tandem with this, students belonging to the Burma Freedom Group (BFG)
undertook a whole range of awareness and fund raising activities
including Bracelets for Burma; Sponge the Junta; Hunt to Burma; and the
Burma Quiz. They also distributed leaflets and discussed the situation
with fellow students. Not only this, the whole school participated in a
mufti-day wearing the red and yellow of the NLD, and KS3 took part in an
all-day sponsored silence.
 Cindy
and Sorcha wear yellow to show their support for the Burmese people.
All the money raised will be going to the Children of the Forest, a
school/orphanage in Sangkhlaburi, Thailand that specifically looks after
Burmese refugee children, mainly from the war torn Karen and Mon areas
of Eastern Burma.
It is hoped that the students will carry this experience with them
through their lives and that through their thought, care and action one
day the Burmese people can live in freedom.
For more information on the difficulties and injustices faced by the
Burmese people or to sign a petition demanding the release of political
prisoners, please visit www. burmacampaign.org.uk or
www.altsean.org
Secondary students wear
red and yellow as a mufti fund raising day to support the new Burmese
refugee project in Sangklaburi.
ISE Student Council members donate to Fountain
of Life Center and Jesters Care for Kids
Sukhee and Ayano present a
cheque for 100,000 baht to Sister Joan at the FOL Children’s Center on
March 18.
ISE student council
members Sukhee, Boyoung and Mohawk present
a cheque to Jesters Care for Kids chairman, Woody.
Linden Phanpho
On November 12, 2008, the International School Eastern Seaboard
held their annual Walk-a-thon in order to raise money for local
charities. From morning to noon students walked around Burapha Golf
Course listening to music, chatting with friends and for some of the
more determined it was a test of their physical fitness as they ran.
Students from the Fountain of Life couldn’t join us this year as they
had their Loy Krathong celebration on the same day. So, we missed them.
However, this year was the most successful year ever. As such, the high
school student council recently was able to use monies earned to donate
100,000 baht to the Fountain of Life and 25,000 baht to Jesters Care for
Kids 2009.
Don’t forget the Jesters Children’s Fair 2009 is Sunday, September 13 at
the Diana Garden Resort and Driving Range in North Pattaya, and the
Jesters Party Night is the following Saturday, September 19 at Jameson’s
Irish Pub in Central Pattaya.
Check out our Website for updates: www.care4kids.info.3.
Rotary’s R.O.S.E program helps Make Dreams Real
for underprivileged students
Thai Airways International generously sponsors plane tickets to Australia
Public Relations, Rotary Club of
Jomtien-Pattaya
Through the generosity of the Rotary Club of Jomtien-Pattaya and
Thai Airways International five deprived Pattaya students will in May be
going to Australia for nearly a year to study and to learn English. The
Thailand flag carrier has freely donated return air tickets to make
dreams come true for these lucky teenagers.
 Rotary
Club of Jomtien-Pattaya President Brendan Kelly addresses the gathering.
This annual R.O.S.E (Rotary Orphan Students Exchange) educational
project has again been arranged and otherwise funded by the Rotary Club
of Jomtien-Pattaya, in conjunction with the Rotary Club of Eaglehawk in
Bendigo, Victoria.
The R.O.S.E. Program gives an opportunity to several senior students
from the Pattaya Orphanage to travel to Bendigo for 10-12 months to live
with local caring families and attend an E.S.L. (English as a Second
Language) course provided by a local accredited educational facility.
On Wednesday this year’s students, Nathawuth Koomtanom, Miss Sujitra
Kloyjantuek, and Miss Krisana Dahtong from the Fr Ray Foundation Street
Kids Home plus Boonyarit Samarnpak (represented by his brother
Audthaphol) and Miss Kallaya Phothi from the Pattaya Orphanage visited
the Rotary Club of Jomtien-Pattaya at the Royal Cliff Beach Resort to
receive personal computers donated by the club, which will enable them
to keep records of their trip and keep in touch with friends and family
back in Thailand.
 Judy
Hoppe says how grateful all the members, and especially the students,
are for these free tickets from Thai Airways.
Judy Hoppe, chairperson of the Jomtien Rotary Club International
Committee, said, “all our the members and especially the students are
very grateful for these complimentary tickets from Thai Airways” She
added, I hope the students would both enjoy and benefit from this trip
and I trust that these computers which were selected by a Rotary Club of
Jomtien-Pattaya computer expert member, would be put to good use.” Judy
recalled those students who participated in the past and have returned
to a much brighter future and successful careers.
Also present were Fr. Lawrence Patin - president of Fr. Ray Foundation,
Supachai Satheerasilapin - director of the Fr. Ray’s Children Home, Fr
Michael Phangrak, director of the orphanage and Miss Apinya
Aticharthanin, secretary of the orphanage, and others.
(L to R) Father Lawrence
Patin, Judy Hoppe and Father Michael Phangrak prepare for the
presentations.
Past President Howard Osborne of the Rotary Club of
Eaglehawk, the initiator of this project in 2004-05, in his message from
Australia said, “Giving the orphan students an opportunity to learn
English in an English speaking country is the primary reason for the
program. This will be an opportunity that they would never otherwise
experience and on return to Thailand they will be assured of extremely
good employment prospects or further education.
“An impassioned request for the program came from the late Father Ray
Brennan who founded the Pattaya Orphanage. His devotion to the orphans,
the underprivileged, blind and handicapped, elderly and street kids etc.
is legendary not only in Pattaya and Thailand but throughout the world.
His passing in August 2003 has made Rotary only more determined to
ensure his request to send orphan students to Australia to learn English
is realized. The program will be a tribute to his memory and works.”
Krisana Dahtong thanks
everyone for all their help,
as Judy Hoppe and Father Patin look on.
Nathawuth Koomtanom,
Sujitra Kloyjantuek, and Krisana Dahtong from
the Fr Ray Foundation Street Kids Home plus Audthaphol Samarnpak and
Kallaya Phothi from the Pattaya Orphanage, flanked by Father Patin on
the left and Father Michael on the right receive their computer
equipment from Rotary.
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