Year 4 are delighted to continue supporting two charities again this year: The Mercy Centre and The Good Shepherd Thailand.
What do The Mercy Centre do?
Helping the children and communities of the many slums of Bangkok is the mission of this charity. They build and operate schools, improve family health and welfare, protect street children’s rights, respond to daily emergencies, and offer shelter to orphans and street children.
How do we help them?
Following the huge success of the Young Entrepreneur markets in Term 3, the Year Four children were able to donate 150,000 Baht to the Mercy Centre Preschool. This means that around 1,000 preschoolers will have a strong foundation for their educational journey. Our donation funded essential school supplies which enabled the Preschool teachers to create engaging teaching materials and projects that enrich each day's lessons. This project has the potential to make a lasting and positive impact on the lives of young children.
This Christmas, Year 4 children will again take part in the Christmas Box Project. This involves the students creating Christmas wrapping paper using recycled paper and filling shoeboxes with a variety of items needed by the Mercy Centre children. This includes essentials such as toiletries as well as small toys, colouring pencils, notebooks and teddies to fill the shoeboxes.
What do theThe Good Shepherd Thailand do?
This organisation has many ongoing projects throughout the country. Here in Bangkok, they support women's refuge and child care services in Din Dang. They provide learning opportunities for disadvantaged woman such as sewing, embroidery, crafting, hairdressing and manicure training. They also provide day care for young children aged 3-6 years.
How do we help them?
Year Four donated 150,000 Baht to The Fatima Centre to support the work that is done with women and children at risk in the community. We are looking forward to meeting Sister Louise at the Community Market on November 1st when she will be selling the craft products made by the women at the shelter.
You can find out more about these charities and what they do by following the links below.
https://www.mercycentre.org/new/ https://goodshepherdthailand.org/
Helen Dunford
Y4 class teacher and CAT Advocate