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Montessori
Educational activities based on the Montessori approach are now well underway, planned and directed by Marianne Doberstyn, a qualified Montessori teacher and trainer with more than 20 years experience. The techniques are especially well suited to our children with disabilities, and they have taken to the activities enthusiastically. The programme is underway with our Chonlada students and with the children at Nong Pheung. Nong Pheung has provided a room, now set up as a Montessori classroom, for these activities. With help from the Boeing grant and with coordination by one of our Kla Son students, a pilot project Montessori pre-school is also being established in a mountain village in Mae Taeng district.
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Adventure Land
The Foundation has, for some time, been taking our children to the Chiang Mai Adventure Land Park, which is located very near the Foundation. Here they engage in various challenging activities, including riding a (pretty docile) horse. They also walk a tightrope, use a “sky ladder” and fly through the air on a zip line, all above a large pond. At first fearful, they have grown to love these activities and gained in coordination and confidence, and Adventure Land has become the highlight of the children’s week. Experienced coaches assure that the utmost in safety precautions are in place at all times.
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Donation to the Foundation
Students from the American Pacific International School, Banpong, Hang Dong, near Chiang Mai, visited the Foundation with their teacher, former Foundation staff member Ms. Pakanat Thadruk. The students presented us with a donation resulting from a charity drive they had organized, and it was much appreciated.
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Commmunity-Initiated Change (“The Boeing Project”)
Ralph Boyce, the President of Boeing Southeast Asia, visited the Foundation on the occasion of our annual dinner with HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn. Boeing very generously supports our project in six upland villages, a school-based community driven village development programme. Mr. Boyce served as Deputy Chief of Mission at the US Embassy and then later as Ambassador of the United States to Thailand.
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Recent additions to the staff of the Foundation
We are pleased to introduce Khun Jintana Hemthanon (“Tik”), who has been with us for a few months as Foundation Administrator and Deputy Team Leader of the Chonlada Project. She hails from Nakorn Sri Thammarat, but did her university studies in Chiang Mai. She has a master’s degree in Special Education and Counseling, and came to us from a year working with autistic children in Scotland.
Mr. Surachai Mungmaiwathana (“Pong”) is a final-year student at Chiang Mai Rajabhat University and is spending a period of time with the Foundation as an intern, and is planning to join the foundation staff when he finishes. He studied English in Australia.
Mr. Pitak Pamaingam (“Tak”) is a first year Kla Son scholar at Chiang Mai Rajabhat University and works part-time with the Foundation, focusing on the Promise-a-Child programme.
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National Children’s Day
Our Kla Son university scholarship students, on their own initiative and with the help of Khun Tuk, DBF Administrator, organized a day trip to a Hmong village, Buakjan, in the hills. They had collected funds for school supplies, sports equipment and they hosted a lunch for the children there.
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The Dulabhatorn Christmas Party
On 23 December 2012, about 120 children and caregivers joined us at the Foundation for food, gifts and performances. They came from various projects supported by the Foundation: Nong Pheung, Baan Phonsawan, Promise-a-Child and Chonlada. Santa Claus turned up unexpectedly to oversee the event. The entire party was planned and carried out by our “Kla Son” university scholarship students, who also acted as announcers, disk jockeys and food servers. A good time was had by all.
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