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Project: Baan Huay Hin Lad Nok Community School
Location: Chiang Rai province ,
Sponsorship Started: 2017
Total Beneficiaries: 20  students
Project Cycle: September 2017 - April 2021
Annual Budget: €12.104  ($13,270)

The School provides quality education to children in a rural village, combining formal education with local education methods to help preserve traditions and provide useful knowledge relevant to the community. Full Details


Project: Educational Enablement: Food and medicine
Location: Ban Nai Soi village ,
Sponsorship Started: 2016
Total Beneficiaries: 41  students, teachers and volunteers
Annual Budget: €15.919  ($17,452)

The Ban Nai Soi Community Learning Centre offers great educational opportunities to migrant youth who have no access to ‘regular’ education but without food and medicine many of the poorest students would not be able to attend. Full Details


Project: Ban Pha Lai Community School
Location: Chiang Dao ,
Sponsorship Started: 2017
Total Beneficiaries: 55  students and teachers
Project Cycle: May 2017 -
Annual Budget: €9.718  ($10.751)
Project Type:

80 Preschool students from 13 marginalised ethnic minority groups near Chiang Dao in northern Thailand saw the funding of their school drying up. We could avoid the closing of their school thanks to a generous sponsor. Full Details


Project: Boarding house for Shan youth
Location: Piang Luang ,
Sponsorship Started: 2012
Total Beneficiaries: 23  Children, Coordinator, Caretaker
Project Cycle: May 2012 - ongoing
Annual Budget: €16,280  ($17,570)

The boarding house offers up to 20 children an environment that is as close to a normal family life as possible. They attend the local Thai school and learn English, Shan, Burmese and computer skills at the camp in the evenings. Full Details


Project: Chairs, table and water tank covering
Location: Chiang Dao ,
Sponsorship Started: 2020
Total Beneficiaries: 55  students and teachers
Project Cycle: February 2020
Annual Budget: €600  ($)
Project Type:

In our recent visit we noticed that some of the students did not have any tables and chairs to sit on while eating their lunch. The water tank at the school also had no shelter and was completely exposed to the weather. Full Details


Project: Construction and Improvements
Location: Ban Nai Soi village ,
Sponsorship Started: 2022
Total Beneficiaries: 41  students, teachers
Annual Budget: €3.188  ($3,230)

The boys shared bathroom and the roof to their dormitory were damaged and collapsing, leaving them without a safe place to live and sleep, and no clean room to bath or do their laundry. Full Details


Project: Construction of New Kitchen and Reading Room
Location: Ban Nai Soi village ,
Sponsorship Started: 2019
Total Beneficiaries: 52  students, teachers
Project Cycle: Sept to Nov 2019
Annual Budget: €10.264  ($10.926)

The old kitchen had poor hygiene, cleaning and sanitation conditions increasing the risk of infection and disease spreading, as well as contamination of food and food poisoning. Full Details


Project: Emergency Food Support Phase 2 - COVID-19 Pandemic
Location: Chiang Dao ,
Sponsorship Started: 2020
Total Beneficiaries: 50  adults and children
Project Cycle: August - December 2020
Annual Budget: €1.625  ($1.930)
Project Type:

4 monthly deliveries of essential basic food that was urgently needed to support 10 families in 5 villages in Northern Thailand. While the families have tried to grow some food at home, the drought has hit even this small supplement, and nothing grows. And with the economic downturn there is zero income for these ten families. Full Details


Project: Donation of winter clothes
Location: Chiang Mai province ,
Sponsorship Started: 2015
Total Beneficiaries: 500  children, adults and refugees
Project Cycle: November 2015 - ongoing
Annual Budget: €0 (Donations in-kind)  ($0)

In 2015, the Chiang Mai International Rotary Club (CMIRC) approached us for a project to receive their yearly donation of clothes. Aware of the situation in Koung Jor, we proposed to CMIRC that they donate winter clothing to the camp. Full Details


Project: Baan Huay Hin Lad Nok Community Education Support
Location: Chiang Rai province ,
Sponsorship Started: 2020
Total Beneficiaries: 4 students  
Project Cycle: 2020 - 2021
Annual Budget: €1.825  ($2.145)

Supporting young students financially so they can afford to attend school. Paying for their uniform, books, transportation and meals without which their opportunities in life would be severely limited. Full Details


Project: Supplementary scholarships for Shan youth
Location: Piang Luang ,
Sponsorship Started: 2012
Total Beneficiaries: 5  students
Project Cycle: July 2019 - Dec 2020
Annual Budget: €510  ($575)

Shan scholarship students are supported with supplementary scholarships that cover their basic living costs such as clothing, hygienic needs and food. With the aid of academic and supplementary scholarships students have a better chance of succeeding in school, improving their livelihoods and helping their communities. Full Details


Project: Emergency Food Support for 1.000 Families
Location: Fang, Mae Ai and Chai Prakan Districts ,
Sponsorship Started: 2021
Total Beneficiaries: 1000+  migrant worker families
Project Cycle: July + Aug 2021
Annual Budget: €15.097  ($17.768)
Project Type:

During Phase 3 of the Covid-19 pandemic, migrant workers in three districts (Fang, Mae Ai, and Chai Prakan) were unable to provide enough food for their families. PCF and our implementing partner the Fortune Community Health Group (FCHG) have identified 1000 families in 32 areas in these districts that need the most help. Full Details


Project: 2021 Evening Class
Partner: BPL Village Community
Location: Ban Pha Lai ,
Sponsorship Started: 2021
Total Beneficiaries: 51  children and teachers
Project Cycle: Dec 2021 - March 2022
Annual Budget: €510  ($575)

For Ban Pha Lai village community this resulted in all of the children failing their school year so Kru Oil, a former teacher at the community school and project co-ordinator, set up evening classes on her own but quickly found herself swamped by the number of students joining. 19.000 THB (500 Eur) paid for the stipend for 3 teachers for 3,5 months to teach 3 grades of 48 children EVERY NIGHT for 2 hours. Not letting this generation fall futher behind is a huge impact for very little money. Full Details


Project: Support for Koung Jor Nursery School
Location: Piang Luang ,
Sponsorship Started: 2017
Total Beneficiaries: 118  children and teachers
Project Cycle: 2020 ongoing
Annual Budget: €2.980  ($3.170)

By connecting Chiang Mai International Rotary Club with SWAN (the partner that helps support the nursery), the children now have a reliable funding for the children's daily dietary needs. Full Details


Project: Free Food Campaign
Partner: Monsoon Tea, SWAN, KJSRC, FCHG
Location: Chiang Mai ,
Sponsorship Started: 2020
Total Beneficiaries: 2300+  
Project Cycle: Free Meals: Mar 2020 - Nov 2020 | Emergency Food: Mar 2020 -ongoing
Annual Budget: €27.037  ($29.239)
Project Type:

Here in Chiang Mai the local population is much more dependent on tourist income and casual labour than most other Thai cities. The recent lockdown due to the pandemic has brought many people to the brink of desperation. It is estimated that 100.000 people are now unemployed with no financial safety net and none likely in the near future. Full Details


Sponsorship Started: 2022
Total Beneficiaries: 3.000+  IDPs including 187 students/children
Project Cycle: 1 month
Annual Budget: €1.586  ($1.575)
Project Type:

We support the most urgently needed medications for 3,000 people in an IDP camp which has recently seen a large influx of people. Full Details


Project: Multi-Lingual Education
Location: Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai ,
Sponsorship Started: 2017
Total Beneficiaries: 580  students and teachers in 4 schools
Project Cycle: September 2017 - ongoing
Annual Budget: €55.130  ($59.845)
Project Type:

The Foundation for Applied Linguistics (FAL) offers a specifically designed language programme targeted to improve the language skills of ethnic children. They work with schools in remote villages in northern Thailand where minority children face huge difficulties due to the language gap between their local language and the Thai language used at school. Full Details


Project: Roof renovation for Koung Jor Nursery School
Location: Piang Luang ,
Sponsorship Started: 2017
Total Beneficiaries: 120  children
Project Cycle: October 2017 - November 2017
Annual Budget: €580  ($670)

A nursery with a leaking roof is no environment for children. Thanks to our sponsor, the Brodtbeck Philanthropy Foundation, and partnership with the Shan Women's Action Network (SWAN), we will ensure that the roof is renovated. The children and teachers at Koung Jor Nursery School will no longer have to worry about the rainy season or a leaking roof. Full Details


Project: BCSWU - Bodhi Vijjayalai College - Cycle 5
Partner:
Location: Mae Sot ,
Sponsorship Started: 2018
Total Beneficiaries: 3  
Project Cycle: Aug 2022 - May 2023
Annual Budget: €6.300  ($6.700)
Project Type:

The project provides full financial support for 3 university students from underserved ethnic groups living along the boarder area in Tak province. Currently two students are studying Geo-Cultural Management and the third is studying Education for Community Development. Full Details


Project: Secondary Scholarship Programme for Two Students
Location: Chiang Mai ,
Sponsorship Started: 2017
Total Beneficiaries: 2  students
Project Cycle: July 2017 -
Annual Budget: €6,853  ($6,802)
Project Type:

Education is so important to help break the cycle of poverty, but unfortunately for many in rural Thailand, getting that education has many barriers - and that is usually the cost. Thanks to several private sponsors, we are able to provide important scholarships to two aspiring and dedicated students. Full Details


Project: Stipend for English teachers
Location: Piang Luang ,
Sponsorship Started: 2016
Total Beneficiaries: 102  students and teachers
Project Cycle: September 2016 – ongoing
Annual Budget: €5.170  ($5.590)

In Koung Jor Shan Refugee Camp the leadership set up English classes to increase the opportunities for the children in the community once they are able to leave the camp. A small stipend for the teachers secures the continuity of this important programme. Full Details