Foundation Blog

Bai Tio, Huay Kaow Waterfall Doi Suthep

Feb 21st, 2010 | By John | Category: Foundation Blog

When asked where they wanted to go this weekend , the children asked to go back to the waterfall at Doi Suthep.
 Not happy about the risk of more injury from broken glass, we decided to try the Huay Kaow Waterfall a little further downstream.
This waterfall is more developed for visitors with a car park and [...]



Teamwork At Stratton House

Feb 21st, 2010 | By John | Category: Foundation Blog

Thanks to an anonymous donation to our cycle track fund we decided to purchase the first load of surfacing materials.
 A second look at the possible costs of concreting, and the fact that we are still in rented accomadation, led us to believe that we should look at cheaper, less permanent, options, and we settled on [...]



Valentines Day

Feb 17th, 2010 | By John | Category: Foundation Blog

This Sunday happened to be Valentines Day, so the day out included not only Huay Tung Tao,
 but also visits to both Kamtieng  Garden  Market and the Flower Market close to Chiang Mais China Town at the banks of the River Ping.
We ate at home this week and then enjoyed a couple of hours of the peaceful [...]



Sunday Bai Tio-Doi Suthep Nam Dtok

Feb 7th, 2010 | By John | Category: Foundation Blog

It was an interesting day to say the least. Given a choice, the kids decided that they’d like to visit Doi Suthep waterfall, and pay a quick visit to the Chiang Mai Flower Festival which has been happening this weekend.
We got to this the waterfall at around 11.30 and had about 3 hours there. The [...]



Bike Road Laid Out

Feb 7th, 2010 | By John | Category: Foundation Blog

Thanks to a herculian effort by all the children yesterday , it looks like our original estimate of 5 weekends was way over the top.
Once they got started and the track started to take shape , the children didn’t want to stop.
All the younger children worked hard gathering up loose stones and leveling the track.
Tai [...]



Sponsor a Child–Please Register With The Shop

Feb 4th, 2010 | By John | Category: Foundation Blog

Just to let you know that there should be no problem sponsoring through the facility in our shop.
But any prospective sponsor needs to register as a customer first before the software will allow you to “purchase”.
Once again, a big thankyou to our 2 first child sponsors, Heather and Azadeh.
Your childs profiles will be completed very [...]



Sponsor a Child – problem solving

Feb 2nd, 2010 | By John | Category: Foundation Blog

Belated thanks to our first child sponsors, Azadeh and Heather from the Faa Gamma fund raising team.
Azadeh has started sponsoring Nu and Heather is sponsoring Jack.
I have to apologise for continued technical problems with the sponsor facility in the shop.
Also an explaination of our child sponsor programme……..
Its still early days, but an early estimate of [...]



Bike Track in Progress

Feb 2nd, 2010 | By John | Category: Foundation Blog

At long last we got a bit of a start on our planned work project, making a bike track that will go all the way around the house.
The tracks borders will be marked with lengths of bamboo set in the ground.
The first job was to make out the start of the track and remove all [...]



Bai Tio Huay Tung Taow

Jan 27th, 2010 | By John | Category: Foundation Blog

Another Sunday, another fun day out. The childrens choice was Huay Tung Taow.
 This time we took two of the bicycles with us to extend the range of the days activities.
As usual the kids had lots of fun playing in the water.
Water snail collecting seemed to be the popular past-time for the day.
In between times the [...]



Sponsor a Child

Jan 26th, 2010 | By John | Category: Foundation Blog

Just a note to apologise for the long delay in adding details of how to sponsor a child with us.
I have been having technical difficulties with the shop and have had problems  adding details.
I have managed to add details of two of the children to our shop today.
For those of you who wish to start sponsoring any of [...]