Thailand

SOS Children's first Village in Thailand was built in Bangkok in 1972, and since then, four more villages have been established. In December 2006, the fourth SOS Village was opened in Chiang Rai, close to the northern borders with Myanmar (Burma) and Laos. The opening of the Village was a landmark for the charity, being the 450th SOS Children's Village to be opened around the world. … more about our charity work in Thailand

Child sponsorship update from Bangpoo (Bangkok), Thailand

Apr 20, 2009 12:00 PM
Sponsor a child Bangkok

Update for child sponsors from the SOS Children's Village Bangpoo, Thailand from December 2007

Dear Sponsors and Friends,

Christmas and New Year season has been approaching, you have just received the mid year report in July 2007. This Christmas, for the second report, now please let us to present you our brief report to what was going on during the second half of year 2007.

Totally children are 105; 44 boys, 44 girls and 17 young boys at youth house, one baby boy and one baby girl were welcome to be with us, both of them become the dearest for whole family. We continuously give extra tutorial classes, as well as strongly support our children having a part in village activities and all seasonal festival days with our own tradition.

This time we would like to present you 2 photos, one is from a group of dentist helped doing tooth extraction, orthodontic and other treatment for children, mothers, staff and our neighbors. It was a good chance to build up friendships each other.

Children's events Bangkok

The other one is from an impress day in July, children and mothers enjoyed their outing at Safari World, Thailand’s Most Popular Animal and Leisure Park. This activity was one of the local fundraising campaigns with kind support by Dumex (Thailand) Co Ltd., corporate SOS Foundation of Thailand to support children with knowledge and experience outside the classroom that will be more beneficial for our children. In the early morning, two big buses picked up children and mothers. When children arrived, there are a lot of interesting activities to participate with. The most exciting one was “Safari Park” that children met the ultimate safari experience features hundreds of animals from all over the world. They rode on Safari’s luxury coaches into the park included the highlight was wild life feeding pit stop. Next, children got real jungle experience with “Jungle Walk” in tropical forest. They saw a lot of wild birds during jungle explore as well as a little adventure by crossing the rope bridge also. Children enjoyed lunch buffet serving with ice cream and snack in jungle and safari atmosphere. End of wonderful day with “Animal Show”, it was exciting for children included dolphin, bird, monkey and lion sea’s talent performance. Besides children had fun with the show, they also gained knowledge about a lot of wild life animals from real experience and explanation from an expert guide during whole trip. They returned to village with unforgotten experience from exploring wide life world and acquire such as beautiful memory.

May we take this opportunity to send you our deepest thanks and great gratitude for your generous support and kind concern to our work and we wish you

“MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008”

Yours sincerely,

Ms. Wantana Changsila, Sponsorship Coordinator, SOS Children’s Village Bangpoo and Mr. Phahol Trangkineenad, National Director, SOS-Thailand

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