Now that we are an officially registered charity it means that we can try to get our collection boxes in the bigger retail outlets, around and about Chiang Mai and the Northern Thai Provinces.
In preperation for this I spent yesterday producing stickers, and this afternoon, (Saturday), five of the children helped out with putting the new stickers on the boxes.
We got quite an efficient production line going and had the job done in little over an hour.
Tai operated the paper guillotine, carefully cropping the stickers from the many pages I had produced.
There were the main photos for the tops of the boxes;
smaller photos showing different aspects of life at the childrens home, for the front;
long labels with the name of the Foundation, complete with registered charity number, and smallers copies of the Foundation logo sticker to spot around;
and not forgetting number labels so we can keep proper track of the individual boxes.
Som stood by ready to take the cut labels over to the tables where Nu, May2 and Gu carefully stuck the labels onto the boxes.
Now we have 20 more boxes ready to go out over the next couple of weeks.
So please keep your eyes out for our collection boxes and think about dropping some of your small change in there when you can.
For more photos please visit our photobucket album here.
As much as I am happy that we are now a fully registerred charity here in Chiang Mai, I had maybe been a little complacent about the additional workload that I am now doing my best to keep up with.
No worries, I have always been at my best when kept busy. Just as well! Up at 6 am every morning to ensure all the kids get up and ready themselves for school. School run to Sarapee at 7.25am. Then its back home for coffee and a short break before getting to work with the ever increasing list of things to get done.
4pm and its back to Sarapee to collect the Mattayom kids.
Then its fulltime dealing with the kids, questions, chat, homework, etc.
The younger kids go to bed at 8.30 and generally my day is mostly done by then.
The two eldest go at 10-10.30 and I usually get to hit the sack around 11pm
Today has been lots of computer work, designing and printing stickers for our collection boxes that we can now , hopefully, get placed in the bigger retail outlets.
After coming up with the idea of putting several small photos on the boxes, depicting different aspects of life at Stratton House , I have also decided to turn this into a feature on this website, with the help of webmaster Ally:)
Hope you like it.
Jun 302010
The Stratton ABC Foundation; registered charity no: ชม.310 (chor.mor.310).
Stratton House Childrens Home Chiang Mai
Newly registered, on 16-06-10, our Foundations work started in ernest on November 1st 2009 with the arrival of the first placement at our Childrens Home in Sarapee, Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand.
What we do;
At present we have placements available for up to 14 children. Our placements are available for underprivileged children from Northern Thai Provinces, although we would consider cases from further afield if especially requested to.
Right now we are caring for 9 young children all from socially deprived areas;the majority have come to us to ensure consistent education due to difficulties with transport/uniform costs, etc back at home where financial resources are low.
As well as ensuring continuing educational placements within local government schools we also engage the children in after school and weekend activities,including English Language lessons, art and craft and physical activities such as badminton, football, etc; and helping out with our vegetable growing and general upkeep and improvement of our facilities.
It is our belief that involving the children in making improvements will give them a greater sense of ‘ownership’ and hopefully lead to a greater respect for their home and environment. It should also help to build the self esteem of youngsters who have often had little to feel good about and may feel of little worth.
As part of our wish to operate this Foundation in as open a manner as possible and also to allow our friends and supporters to feel a real part of this venture; and maybe to inform others who maybe thinking of setting up a Foundation here in Thailand; we will be showing the whole story here.
Where we are; 36/1 Moo7, T. Chompoo, A. Sarapee, Chiang Mai
Travelling from Chiang Mai towards Lampang ,on Highway 11, approximately 18 kilometres out of town you will reach the Sarapee/Banthi intersection; turn left for Banthi and follow the road to Ban Mae Salab; as the road bears left to cross the river, carry straight on under the village gate, (don’t cross the river), shortly after Wat Mae Salab on the right side you will see some brightly painted metal doors,( pink, green and yellow), these mark the start of our premises and you will see the gate shortly there after….approximately 2 kilometres from Highway 11.
Visitors welcome but a call in advance would be good to ensure we are on site. For the safety of the children all visits will be staff supervised.
