Help needed for local schools in Thailand

As you may know, The Foundation for Education and Development (FED) has been running 2 nurseries, 7 learning centers and a high school project for several years now, supporting over 600 migrant children access education and stay out of the work force. However, as a result of different circumstance FED fears that unless we can find emergency funds to cover 4 months of costs, the education of these children will be severely disrupted.  FED is currently unable to cover expenses for its education program from January – May 2012. FED greatly appreciates contributions of any amount to assist us in covering the current education deficit of 1,142,000.00 baht ($37,295.436)

 

I have attached an appeal providing greater detail of the situation for your review. 

 

On behalf of our Board of Directors, staff and Burmese Community we thank you for your consideration.

Khao Lak - An Emergency appeal

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The Best tourism service around...Andaman Discoveries

We are always trying to improve the community around us. Whether it's out environmentally friendly dive center, our sponsoring summer camps for Burmese Children we push for improving the lives of those around us in all that we do.

Finally there is a project that we wholeheartedly support! Andaman Discoveries is an incredibly awesome project that helps set up a whole series of programs that benefit the local communities. Home stay options, craft centers and language centers.

This is how to help a community recover! Please look for more and more information here in the very near future!


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Wicked Diving - What we did this summer

As we have mentioned before - our commitment to the community is essential to us as people and to us as a commercial enterprise. As part of this philosophy we donate 10% of our proceeds to local charities. After putting our time and effort behind tsunami recovery efforts, we feel that these projects are either dwindling down or exploited for the benefit of the donors and not the receipients.

This year we are sponsoring these 20 children to go to summer camp. They are all children of migrant Burmese (Myanmar) workers who are prevented from attending local schools and often not even allowed basic healthcare.

In the summer camp the children are taken and taught some skills that most of us would take for granted. they have never seen a map before and have no idea how one works! Or the basics of their own anatomy.


Here, Michelle (head of the summer camp program) is telling them a story.





As you can see the conditions are very basic. Our donation not only paid for the materials, but the food, accommodation and necessities for their two weeks.

This donation is not ours - it's yours. Everyone who joined us this year helped make this possible. Each time you dive with us, you are contributing to projects just like this.

So to everyone this year a huge thank you!





There will be more pictures next week! stay posted


Khao Lak Diving