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A fun day out for the Camillian kids
at the Sriracha Tiger Zoo
Is that Clive the orangutan and his
wife visiting the children?
Children and sponsors pose for a
group photo.
Ogonoski Canadian Jackalope Open
On April 22nd 42 kids and their chaperons from the
Camillian Social Center had the pleasure of a full day trip to the Sriracha
Tiger Zoo courtesy of the Canadian Jackalope Open and Jesters Care For Kids.
The children especially like
the petting zoo.
The group was met by their guide Aung and treated to
three exciting shows - the tiger show, the elephant show, and the crocodile
show. For many of these kids this was the first time they had ever seen wild
animals up close.
In addition to the shows there were visits to the
crocodile egg exhibit, the scorpion exhibit, the tiger cub and piglet
nursery, the tiger cub feeding room, the pig racing contest and the ever
popular petting zoo.
This little one is completely enthralled by the
show.
In all, it was a very enjoyable day for all and special
thanks go to our guide Aung for keeping everybody together and getting us to
all the shows on time, the Sriracha Tiger Zoo management for organizing and
planning and the staff at S&R Restaurant for a well prepared lunch.
Additional thanks to Wild Bill Freeman, Geoff Lever & family, Harry Riley,
Paul and Marco.
That tiger looks awful close - good
thing there is a glass wall between us.
Songkran fun at Pattaya Orphanage
Visiting volunteers enjoy the festivities with the
young children.
Youngsters at Pattaya Orphanage wish everyone a Happy
Songkran.
The youngsters perform the ancient tradition
of
pouring scented water on the hands of their elders.
Dancing the ramwong during the Songkran celebrations.
Visiting volunteers participate in traditional
Songkran rituals at the orphanage.
They might be too young to understand,
but they’re old enough to know everyone is having fun.
Radchada Chomjinda
To enjoy the Songkran Festival in Pattaya during
April 18 and 19, the Pattaya Orphanage celebrated with a Songkran
“Family Day”. The theme was to celebrate the Thai tradition by having
all residents and guests wear Thai costumes. The highlight of the 18th
evening was that all foreign volunteers wore Thai costumes while the
children and staff enjoyed celebrating the old tradition with Thai dance
and wishing the elderly and their teachers well.
The next morning, when all of Pattaya was celebrating
the Songkran “Wan Lai” (water day) fun, the orphans and CPDC children at
the Pattaya Orphanage joined in the fun with people in the many vehicles
slowly moving past the orphanage on the main Sukhumvit Road. In spite of
the heat and sun, the children tremendously enjoyed splashing. Happy
Songkran!
More than 200,000 baht raised for children’s fund
Over 200,000 baht was raised for HRH Princess
Sirindhorn’s Child
Development Fund in Chonburi.
Theerarak
Suthathiwong
Chonburi officials, businesspeople and residents
raised nearly 215,000 baht for HRH Princess Sirindhorn’s Child
Development Fund whilst offering robes to monks at Nongsak’s Nongkhoen
Temple.
Deputy Governor Songpol Champapan led the pha pa
ceremony on April 8 at the Chonburi temple. The event was one of many
held each year around the country to raise funds for the children’s
charity, which was founded in 1979 and placed under the patronage of HRH
the Princess in 1983. The event raised 214,053 baht.
Thank you Charity Club of Pattaya
Panitram Family & Villagers say thank you to the
Charity Club of Pattaya.
The Panitram family enjoyed their first Songkran in
their new home, thanks to the Charity Club of Pattaya. The Children
asked the school if they could make a thank you sign to say thank you to
the club.
Before the Charity Club stepped in to help, the five
children lived in a leaky shack which was made up of different bits of
scrap with their mother. Mum makes a living making and selling Thai
sweets for 1 baht each.
Nong Nooch staff undergo
basic scoutmaster training
Nong Nooch sales and marketing head Jiraporn Sodorn
(left)
teaches staff basic scoutmaster training.
Patcharapol Panrak
About 80 staff members of Pattaya’s Nong Nooch
Tropical Garden received basic scoutmaster training to prepare them to
handle the many Boy and Girl Scout groups that visit the park.
Nong Nooch sales and marketing head Jiraporn Sodorn
said management believes in the importance of training adolescents to be
good citizens. Scouting, he said, is one way to do that. The “primary
knowledge training course” park staffers took part in gives them the
grounding to support scouting camp activities.
“We help the scouts grow up with good intentions for
society to support the country and community,” he said. The training
program, he added, “Teaches how to help each other as scouts, advise and
understand each other.”
Sattahip-area teachers receive
youth-leadership training from Navy
Rear Adm. Taweep Sukpinit “inspects the troops”.
Patcharapol Panrak
Almost 40 teachers and other authority figures took
part in a Royal Thai Navy-organized youth-leader camp to instill good
values in children in the eastern part of the country.
Rear Adm. Taweep Sukpinit, deputy commander for Navy
Region 1, opened the workshop April 27 at the Communications Battalion
Support Department of the Royal Thai Marine Corps. Capt. Supasit
Burana-Osot, deputy director of the Special Affairs Division, said the
camp was organized due to recognition about the growing divisions in
society and the desire to create harmony among society’s youngest
citizens.
The 38 counselors were told that the youth camps,
once begun, will aim to make young people conscious of the importance of
love, harmony, understanding, sharing and caring. This, navy officials
said, would create unity and enable the youth to grow up with strong
morals and the ability to deal with other cultures.
The youth camps will include students from Chanthaburi, Trat, Bangkok
and Sattahip.
The rope bridge is never easy.
The race is on!
Rite of passage - crawling through the tires,
only to be met by a face full of powered water.
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