Year 2 support Children of the Forest Charity
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A big thank you to everyone who helped to make Smile Day 2022 such a huge success. The Primary School raised ฿89,601 which is being donated to Operation Smile Bangkok to help pay for life changing surgery for children born with cleft palates.
Please look here for more information about Smile Day at Bangkok Patana School.
In the Primary School, the day was focused on spreading smiles, even under our masks, through jokes, laughs and acts of kindness. We were so grateful to everyone who helped make this funny video to get us in the mood for the celebration.
Year 2 held their Term Two Community Fundraising Event, the Spell-a-thon, on Friday 4th March. This event proved to be very popular and highly successful. This was a non-competitive event with children encouraged to do their best and enjoy themselves.
The Spell-a-thon also raises important funds for our sponsored charity Children of the Forest, located in Kanchanaburi Province.
We are very pleased to announce that Year 2 raised a fantastic ฿128,500.
Ways you can help Children of the Forest
Children of the Forest is a registered charity. They are registered both in the U.K. and also in the U.S. They welcome your support and there are several different ways that you can help or get involved.
Give a Gift
During the Christmas Holidays, our Patana School drivers safely delivered all 125 shoe-boxes to the Children of the Forest Charity. Our drivers were met by Charity Founder, Tom Hopson who collected them in readiness for the Charity Christmas Party where the shoe-boxes were given out to the children.
As you can see from these wonderful photographs, your kindness and generosity has had a real impact on the lives and well-being of so many children who would otherwise not receive a Christmas gift. The looks on the children's faces say it all - they were extremely excited to receive your gifts.
Year 2 raised a fantastic 15,000 Baht at our Term 1 Friendship Friday Fundraising Day. This amount, together with a residual 5,000 Baht, have been happily received by the Children of the Forest and put to very good use.
The charity have purchased a selection of 20 bicycles for the children and they are already putting them to good use.
This is a fantastic example of how local fundraising can have a direct impact on the lives of others.