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Casa Pascal caters for Royalty
HRH Prince Dipangkorn Rasmijoti receives a birthday present from Gop
Papassara.
HRH Princess Srirasm receives a present from
the owners Porntep
Techapaibul and his wife Gop Papassara.
Sunday July 18, 2010 was yet another highlight for Casa
Pascal Restaurant.
They had the privilege to be asked to cater the Baan Suan
Angun restaurant for their prestigious event to host a royal luncheon for
HRH Princess Srirasm, Royal Consort to HRH the Crown Prince of Thailand, and
her 34 friends.
(Left to right) Kim Schnyder, owner of Casa Pascal, Porntep Techapaibul
owner of Baan Suan Angun, and Pascal Schnyder, owner of Casa Pascal.
Casa Pascal restaurant travelled to Bangkok and provided
chefs, service staff and all necessary equipment to guarantee a successful
party in conjunction with the regular employees of Baan Suan Angun.
The owners of Baan Suan Angun are the well known
politician and businessman Porntep Techapaibul, who is the deputy governor
of Bangkok, and his wife Gop Papassara, a celebrated movie star and former
Miss Thailand World.
It was the second time Casa Pascal restaurant has catered for the royal
Family; previously they catered for 331 guests with HRH Princess Sirindhorn
being the guest of honor.
(Left to right) Kim, Pascal and Gop Papassara.
The royal table.
Casa Pascal staff with Gop Papassara in the middle.
Jesters Care For Kids Charity Drive 2010 sponsored by Glencore International, Canadian Jackalope Open and Devil Creek Development Project
Final Tally: Where your donations went in 2009
Lewis Underwood
Since 2007, we have printed brochures
detailing where the money has gone from the previous year’s charity drive.
This is done for transparency’s sake and also for the promotion of our
charity drive.
Sponsored children prepare for school at the Fountain of Life.
As the brochures come out early in the New
Year, before all of the funds have been distributed from the previous year,
we usually publish the final tally in our annual fair souvenir programs
handed out at our annual family event in September.
But, the 2009 accounts are long done and
dusted, and we decided to share the final tally with you now. Please see the
following which shows where your donations have gone.
Due to your generous donations last
year in 2009, we were able to distribute 6,833,691 baht, or 99.9% of
the net raised to the following charities on the Eastern Seaboard, as well
as continue to support a tsunami orphan in Krabi, on your behalf:
Our Target Charity:
(Registered Charity No. Tor 460/2543)
1. The Fountain of Life Center
(3,339,667 baht), under the Good Shepherd
Foundation, provides kids with documentation, education, activities,
meals, medical and dental care, and ultimately, scholarships for entering
govt schools. This past year 58 children received scholarships.
Next Step Program (68,060
baht)
The Next Step Program provides
scholarships to young adults for high school, university and vocational
college.
Young tsunami survivors proudly wear their Care for Kids t-shirts.
1. Nong Eckalot (40,000 baht): is a
15-year old tsunami orphan, who we have sponsored since 2005 via the
Sriphong Khaoluan Foundation in Krabi. We intend to continue our support
through college/university.
3. Nai Pichit (28,060 baht) is a
19-year old currently enrolled in the 2nd
year of a 3-year program at University of Technic, Sattahip.
3. Five pre-university level and 6 BA
level students are currently being provided for through funds given to
the Fountain of Life Center.
Schools: (595,100 baht)
1. Noankraprog School (507,600 baht)
is a primary school in Ban Chang with 277 students
and previously only 5 toilets. We built 10 additional ones and renovated
their canteen at the same time.
2. Children of inmates in Central
Rayong Prison (50,000 baht): we provided scholarships for the 3rd
consecutive year for 25 children to go to gov’t schools.
3. Young PR Ambassadors (35,000 baht):
provides students from Pattaya schools with the opportunity to learn
local history, culture and tourist attractions in their community in order
to enter the travel industry. Top students chosen are entitled to
scholarships.
4. Ban Klongbangpai (2500 baht)
is a primary school in U-Tapao, where we built a kindergarten in a joint
venture with the Herrod Foundation last year. This year we made some minor
improvements to the toilets.
Special Schools:
(1,388,500 baht)
1. Khao Baisri Home for Disabled Boys
(830,060 baht): In a joint project with the Herrod
Foundation, we have built a separate home for the boys at this special
school in Sattahip, including all furnishings.
2. Pattaya Redemptorist School for the
Blind (408,440 baht): We provided a main water system, construction of
new office so the old one could be converted into classrooms and acquired
specialized footballs for their athletes.
3. Sunganseuksa Phiset 12 (100,000
baht) in Ban Bueng, cares for autistic and mentally impaired children.
We matched Joe and Oiy St. Laurent’s annual 50,000 baht donation so that the
center can continue to update their facilities.
4. Special Olympics (50,000 baht):
The 3rd Special Olympics
Thailand Eastern Region Athletics Championship was held at School #7 in
Pattaya in November last year. The 250 handicapped athletes competed in
field and track events and arena football. We were a sponsor for the event.
Shelters: (1,187,215 baht)
1. Camillian Social Center (641,625
baht). In a joint venture with the Canadian
Jackalope Open and Pattaya Panties, we continue to sponsor two disabled
HIV-infected children. We also took 80 kids from their various centers
Christmas shopping and to the Sriracha Tiger Zoo.
2. Ban Jing Jai (430,410 baht) an
orphanage in Nong Prue, now with 71 kids. We cover their monthly food and
utilities’ cost.
3. Kate’s Project (33,180 baht):
helps the poor in Nong Prue. We assisted them by reconstructing a small home
and by sponsoring Christmas party for kids and their families in the area.
4. Children Protection Development
Center (27,000 baht): a shelter for street kids in Huay Yai. We provided
metal storage lockers for their dormitories.
5. PILC Chonburi Handicap Projects
(30,000 baht): This was the last payment for house construction project
for disabled 15-year old boy and his parents started in 2008.
6. Dek Dee Day Care Center (15,000
baht): is in Ban Chang and provides care for young slum kids whose
parents work during the day.
7. Our Home (10,000 baht): in Kanam
Rai, Ban Chang for the benefit of girls who left the remand center in Huay
Pong. The girls stay in a dormitory on the premises and learn quilt-making
and embroidery. We helped repair the roof.
Special Case: (74,299
baht)
Nong Urn is
an 8-year old suffering from congenital liver problems; we have provided her
with a clean apartment to help combat her irritable skin syndrome.
Miscellaneous: (180,850
baht)
1. Shirts (147,850 baht):
Jesters T-shirts were donated at cost to kids from our
various projects.
2. Fair Coupon Redemption (33,000
baht): We provided same kids above with coupons to play the contracted
games free of charge at our Children’s Fair.
If you would like to help us this year,
please visit our website at www.care4kids.info or email us at [email protected].
Please remember that this year’s Jesters
Children’s Fair is on Sunday, September 12th
and that our Jesters Party Night 6 days after that on Saturday, September 18th.
PILC and Women With a Mission take welfare tour
Rectangular fish pond.
Eva Johnson
On July 13th eight ladies from the Pattaya International
Ladies Club (PILC) checked in on Nong Nu, a young girl who has cerebral
palsy, severe malnutrition, a heart problem, and severe cleft palate. Our
joint goal has been to build up her health to get her to a point where she
can eventually have surgery to correct some of her problems. She has been
receiving nutritional supplements and seems to be gaining weight. Her mother
has a noodle cart and works at a local Wat to help make ends meet.
Nong Nu and her mother.
Next we visited three different families in the
Mabprachan area. Each family has a handicapped member who has been provided
with a “fish pond” to take care of. The fish ponds were paid for by PILC
while Women With A Mission facilitated the construction of the ponds and
stocking of the fish.
After 3 - 4 months the fish will be big enough to sell at
a profit. The idea is to help these handicapped people earn a living. They
should be able to make enough money to re-stock their pond and still have
some money to use toward monthly living costs. We saw three kinds of ponds.
One is a rectangular shaped, concrete structure that has a divider in the
middle of the pond. Fish are placed in one side and then transferred to the
other side when they are bigger. The second kind is a round pond that holds
approximately 200 fish at a time. The third style is a netting structure
that can be used whenever the handicapped person lives near a klong.
One other project we were lucky enough to observe was the
implementation of a mushroom farm. Some of the handicapped people that we
help also receive help with starting a mushroom farm. The concept is similar
to the fish ponds in that once implemented; they can continue to be utilized
for a continuous income.
We were able to see first- hand how the mushroom bags are
filled, steamed, and then allowed to develop sprouts prior to being placed
in the mushroom house. The spore bags are then left in the mushroom houses
for a period of about three months until the mushrooms are big enough to be
harvested and sold for a profit.
We were lucky when we made our last stop of the day as
there was a rice paddy field next door. Two Thai ladies were harvesting rice
plants and bundling them so that they could be transplanted in an adjoining
field. The rice is planted very thickly to begin with and then pulled out
and transplanted one stem of rice at a time in the new field to finish its
growing season. We were all amazed at how labor intensive this process is
for the laborers.
All in all, it was an enlightening day of seeing a very
poor, sick, frail girl, fish ponds, mushroom houses, and rice paddies. We
topped it off with lunch at Tamar Center after the tour. The carrot cake and
cheese cake were a highlight of the lunch.
Trips - learning through experience
This trip is fun!
Mr. Robert Grisdale
GIS Head of Primary
At Garden International School trips form a very
important part of our curriculum. The range of trips available to the
students is vast as well as being tailored to compliment and enhance their
learning experience in the classroom.
Youngsters have fun pretending to be sumo wrestlers at
the YMCA.
There is little point going on a school trip where
nothing educational is to be gained by the children. With this in mind at
Garden International School we try to ensure that the trip is well
researched beforehand, that it is not repeated too often and that there is
an educational benefit to the children going on the trip.
This year, in the Primary and Foundation sections of
G.I.S, every year group from our Early Years to Year 6 went on at least one
trip. In addition, the children in Years 3 to 6 were offered the opportunity
to go on a residential trip, where they spent the night away from home. We
consider residential trips to be the most beneficial for the children as
they learn more about themselves, they learn to be more independent and they
have the chance to develop or hone their social interaction with their peers
- all needed life skills.
The following are a selection of reports on trips that
our children took part in over the last academic year.
Khao Kheow
Open Zoo
Mackenzie and Shazriq (Year 6B)
All the children from Year 1 to Year 6 went to Khao Kheow
Open Zoo. We saw tigers (whoa!), anteaters (awesome!) and pigs (ewwww!).
When the bus stopped we went to see the tigers. There was one walking up and
down right beside the windows, like it was following us! Then we went to see
the hippos.
Time out to pose for a creative photo.
We got to feed them. It was like basketball practice because
they were in the water and we were trying to throw cucumbers into their open
mouths. When we were done feeding the hippos we went to feed the giraffes.
They like beans so we put one in front of a giraffe and he grabbed it with
his long purple tongue. It was very strong! After that we went to see the
animal show. It was great! We saw eagles and hawks and when a snake came out
from behind us we screamed! After the show we had lunch in the playground
and played for a while. Then we got back in the school buses and came home.
YMCAA
The children from Years 1, 2, 3 and 4 went to the local
YMCA and had a fantastic time. The photos show the range of activities that
they did and the fun that they had.
Rayong Aquarium (Nursery Trip)
No guessing why the touch pool was the favorite with our
4 year olds on our recent field trip to Rayong Aquarium! Using all our modes
of learning we touched, talked, questioned, gazed and imagined our way
around the excellent facility all morning before having lunch and then...
time for a sleep on the bus trip home.
Learning archery at the YMCA.
The field experience was designed to fit into the
students’ current unit on Water and Water Animals. It has certainly
generated a lot of healthy inquiry among the children and empathy for sea
creatures.
Sports Trips - FOBISSEA
The members of the Year 4-6 FOBISSEA team have returned
from Malaysia where they have been very successfully competing on our
behalf. The children had a great deal of fun as well as performing
excellently at the sporting events. This year’s team performed extremely
well considering only 10 athletes made the trip. Over the three days of
competition, GIS won a total of 52 medals (16 Gold, 14 Silver and 22
Bronze), including two team Gold medals in girls football and tee ball. The
students were a credit to the school and showed great sportsmanship in all
sports. It was a pleasure to accompany them to the games and they were
brilliantly behaved during at all times. Congratulations to all the
athletes.
Year 2 trip to the Turtle Conservation Centre
Year 2 have been learning about living and non-living
things. Both classes have enjoyed keeping snails as class pets. They also
visited the Turtle Conservation Centre in Sattahip.
Other examples of trips that our children took part in
were: the Early Years trip to the beach as part of their unit on
‘Transport’; the Year 2 trip to Ban Chang as part of their ‘Local Study’
unit; the Reception trip to the Rayong Aquarium as part of their science
topic on ‘Animals in the Sea’ and the big Year 4-6 residential trip to the
‘Buffalo Village’ which was a Thai Culture trip. We also travel to our
Bangkok campus to support their theatre performances and to compete with
them at sports.
Deepak Chopra talks in Pattaya
Elfi Seitz
For the first time since being ordained a monk in Chiang
Rai, acclaimed alternative-health author Deepak Chopra spoke at an
invitation-only event at Pattaya’s Horseshoe Point.
Deepak Chopra is surrounded by autograph hunters.
The famed author of spiritual books and practitioner of
alternative healing and Ayurveda, Chopra spent July 12-13 at the Pattaya
resort, speaking on the opening night to more than 200 people.
Chopra is founder of the Chopra Center for Well-Being and
Health in San Diego, Calif. Heralded by Time Magazine as the “poet-prophet
of alternative medicine”, he is also the host of the popular weekly Wellness
Radio satellite radio program. He has authored 55 books, 14 of them New York
Times bestsellers, on mind-body health, quantum mechanics, spirituality, and
peace
His New York Times bestseller “Peace Is the Way” won a
prestigious Quill Award and “The Book of Secrets” was awarded the grand
prize at the 2005 Nautilus Book Awards. He also is a columnist for the San
Francisco Chronicle and Washington Post and contributes regularly to
Intent.com and the Huffington Post Internet blog. His latest work, “Jesus: A
Story of Enlightenment”, was released in 2008.
TV-star Cindy Burbridge Bishop (2nd right) and her mother Pat are among
the listeners.
Since then, Chopra has been on a worldwide quest to widen
his spiritual horizon. As part of the journey - documented by his son Gotham
for a film project and syndicated on YouTube and the Huffington Post - he
traveled to Chiang Mai where he traveled from temple to temple, sampled
various rituals and became an ordained monk for three days.
Showing off his authentically shaved monk head, Chopra
was joined by Horseshoe Point Managing Director Jate Sopitpongsathorn, who
also was ordained, and his sister Joy, a big fan. An experienced speaker,
Chopra has lectured at the Update in Internal Medicine at Harvard Medical
School and captivated his audience at Horseshoe Point.
The next morning Chopra held a meditation session and
gave a morning talk at the resort, teaching participants to “look inside”
and experience “inner awareness” to understand the own self better and get
their own questions answered.
Deepak Chopra gives an interesting lecture.
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