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April 10th, 2010, 01:49
It's been gratifying to see the generosity and willingness of members on Ting Tong regarding the selfless good work being done by the Pattaya Street Kids Support Project. The donations that have been made at clubs, fundraisers and passed hats will make a difference in the lives of needy Thai children, and, more importantly, most likely the lives of their children and their children.
ItтАЩs my hope that there are some here who are also willing to participate in helping the kids out so IтАЩm duplicating the posted reminder about school scholarships I just posted on Gay Ting Tong, (with some minor changes).
For those of you who donтАЩt visit that forum, members there have held fundraisers and passed the hat benefiting the PSKSP (and others). The funds donated have helped quite a number of PSKSP children already - and that's wonderful - but I wanted to pitch the possibility here also of a personal reward I can heartily recommend from my own experience: making the commitment to yourselves that you'll become a child's school sponsor on an on-going basis. This means you'll be giving educational stability to a child and assuring that they'll be able to complete their basic education, giving them essential and valuable tools for a better life; both for themselves and their families.
For the relatively small sum of 3,200 to 4,000 Baht per school year you provide nearly everything a child needs for school except their lunch. If you stop to think about it, that's about 10 baht a day over a calendar year. Thankfully very few of us can say we couldn't come up with that.
You don't sign a contract, you just decide to do it and contact them through the web site below, let him know if you have any basic preferences (elementary school, girl or boy, two from a family if needed, etc.) and - just like expectant parents - you are "assigned" a child. If circumstances truly change and you can not afford the upcoming year's funds they do their best to arrange another means of funding so the child can continue school. One of my students was previously sponsored by a woman who due to age and health could no longer afford it.
Take a look at their web site, if you haven't already. You'll see that the funds truly DO go where you intend them to go, there is reliable transparency up front, and it is NOT a religious organization with an agenda.
http://pattayastreetkids.homestead.com/navig1.html
OK, so why am I taking your time with this now, you ask? Because it's the middle of April, and the new school year will begin in a few weeks. If you've ever considered doing this, the time to act is NOW.
You won't regret it.
You can help a child like this build a better futureтАж
http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z56/khunbaobao/KhoPai006-detail-030210.jpg
ItтАЩs my hope that there are some here who are also willing to participate in helping the kids out so IтАЩm duplicating the posted reminder about school scholarships I just posted on Gay Ting Tong, (with some minor changes).
For those of you who donтАЩt visit that forum, members there have held fundraisers and passed the hat benefiting the PSKSP (and others). The funds donated have helped quite a number of PSKSP children already - and that's wonderful - but I wanted to pitch the possibility here also of a personal reward I can heartily recommend from my own experience: making the commitment to yourselves that you'll become a child's school sponsor on an on-going basis. This means you'll be giving educational stability to a child and assuring that they'll be able to complete their basic education, giving them essential and valuable tools for a better life; both for themselves and their families.
For the relatively small sum of 3,200 to 4,000 Baht per school year you provide nearly everything a child needs for school except their lunch. If you stop to think about it, that's about 10 baht a day over a calendar year. Thankfully very few of us can say we couldn't come up with that.
You don't sign a contract, you just decide to do it and contact them through the web site below, let him know if you have any basic preferences (elementary school, girl or boy, two from a family if needed, etc.) and - just like expectant parents - you are "assigned" a child. If circumstances truly change and you can not afford the upcoming year's funds they do their best to arrange another means of funding so the child can continue school. One of my students was previously sponsored by a woman who due to age and health could no longer afford it.
Take a look at their web site, if you haven't already. You'll see that the funds truly DO go where you intend them to go, there is reliable transparency up front, and it is NOT a religious organization with an agenda.
http://pattayastreetkids.homestead.com/navig1.html
OK, so why am I taking your time with this now, you ask? Because it's the middle of April, and the new school year will begin in a few weeks. If you've ever considered doing this, the time to act is NOW.
You won't regret it.
You can help a child like this build a better futureтАж
http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z56/khunbaobao/KhoPai006-detail-030210.jpg