A number of schools
hidden in the remote areas and jungles of Kanchanaburi badly needs helps. Most
of these schools are shortage of teachers and limited resources, in many cases
basic infrastructures, to provide children a proper education and learning
centre. This is always a case of the primary schools located so far away from
the town, especially those with difficult access into the area blocked by
mountainous terrains and waterways. Often, the chidren whose houses are too far
from the school for them to walk forth and back everyday have to stay overnight
at their schools with limited and poorly conditioned buildings, bedrooms and
facilities.
For example, at some
schools, a number of kids, upto 20 persons, sleep directly
on a concrete floor (without any mattress) in a 4x4 room. Due to its location
on the mountainous area, it is too hot in the hot season and it is too cold in
the winter (Nov-Jan) when temperature can drop down to 4 celcius degree!
Most of the children at
the schools near and inside the forests evidently need help with their daily
life and fundamental education. Basically, they need blankets, jumpers or
jackets, bedroom items, fans, bicycles etc, apart from stationery. In some
other cases, the HIV infected children and those at the orphanage in the border
districts also need help with food, clothes, housing and other basic
infrastructures. Little things for some can bring a big change to many.
The pictures seen here are some of those taken from
the school where the dormitory for 60 small kids (ethic hill tribe Karen) has
undergone the construction process sponsored by individuals, both from overseas
and Thailand, mainly through a TAT marketing representative in Austria with
practical assistances and arrangements from us as the project coordinator.
The infrastructure
assistance to the rural schools such as this is greatly needed. Your help and
contribution can really make a big difference for thousands of
children hidden from the sight of routine travelers to Kanchanaburi. Please
feel free to contact us if you want to brighten the future of these children,
or at least to contribute to a better life of them for the time being.