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Registered Kingdom of Thailand charity #0993000050983, founded 2005

In this issue

Letter from our senior teacher

Star Students

Coconut Club

Fundraising

Our Supporters

Thank you sponsors

A Message from Senior Teacher Jerlin

Happy 2016! There are lots of updates to tell you about this year.

At Kalim School, PHBGTU and school sponsors, Baan Rim Pa, bid fare-well to Director Chawee who transferred to a school in Phuket Town. We look forward to meeting our new Director soon.

At Kamala School we bid farewell to Director Wisan and welcomed new Director, Khun Narisara. We look forward to working with her to keep im-proving the children’s education.

We are supporting the Thai teachers in Kamala School by running an after-school Language Exchange Programme. The idea is to help the Thai teachers improve their English and to help our teachers further their knowledge of Thai culture and better understand their students. We have high hopes for the future of this language exchange programme.

Also in Kamala School, Coconut Club is going from strength to strength. This semester we started our Monday guitar club for the residential stu-dents thanks to donations from Do Re Mi in Phuket Town and Friend of the Foundation, Melinda Giannini, from Australia. If you are in Phuket do come and visit the children at Coconut Club.

As the school year is coming to an end, we wish all the students good luck in their end of year exams and we look forward to more exciting and positive things ahead!

Jerlin

Next Fundraising Event

What: Pop Up at Bliss

Where: Bliss Beach Club

When: Saturday 7th May

2016

More information to follow

soon!




Updates from Kamala

Jean-Claude and Khun Kantaya sponsor Teacher Hossain’s

Senior School Year 1, Malee is the Star Student this month

Malee is a star student in year 1 of Senior School. Last semester she ob-

tained the highest scores in her class. She has grown in confidence and

has improved her reading and writing skills a great deal over the past se-

mester. Malee is always eager to learn new things and put them into

practice. I am sure this eagerness to learn will take her far in the future.

Another thing that makes Malee so special is her ability to lead her peers

and help them in the classroom. Whenever she is done with her work,

Malee will look for others who need help or support. She really enjoys act-

ing as a mentor in the class. I am sure she will continue to grow as an

amazing student. I look forward to teaching her for the rest of the year

and wish her all the best in the future. Teacher Hossain

Sponsor A Child

This is Sky who is in his first year of Secondary School. Sky is

one of our quieter students but is a regular at Coconut Club. He

is always the first to ask what the afternoon’s activities are and

always gets involved. His favorite activities include art and Lego

and he is looking forward to his birthday next month as he gets

to go to a party at Bliss Beach Club!

For 10,000THB you can sponsor Sky for a year. This will cover

his English lessons, extra-curricular activities and field trips.

To find out more visit our website or get in touch by emailing

[email protected]

Teacher Bella’s Kamala Kindergarten Class

Sponsored by Kay and Andy Hunter

I am enjoying every single step of my journey as I teach

Kamala Kindergarten students this year. These children,

aged 3-6, are at a very important stage of learning if they

are to become competent English speakers.

Each of them has a different personality which requires a

varied teaching style but that just makes the job all the

more fun. Recently, the children have been having a lot of

fun playing games. One of their favorites is to act as ‘little

teacher’ and get up in front of the class to show their

friends how it’s done. This semester we have been learn-

ing shapes, colours, food, emotions, weather and num-

bers. With little mouths to sing and repeat, little hands to

color, trace and write, little feet to walk, hop and run,

they’re certainly learning and having fun! Teacher Bella




Coconut Club

This semester at Coconut Club, Teachers Jerlin

and Hamant started a Guitar Club for the students.

The Guitars were kindly donated by Melinda Gian-

nini when she came to visit us in November and

Do Re Mi music store in Phuket Town. We can’t

seem to keep the children away, they love learning

new songs, and making up their own! Some of our

regulars to Guitar Club have managed to learn

some chords and songs and the great thing is that

students of all ages love to come along and prac-

tice their music skills. Thank you Mel and Do Re Mi

and well done Jerlin and Hamant for giving the stu-

dents the opportunity to play a musical instrument.

Lego is always popular at Coconut Club. The

teachers try to have ‘Lego Day’ once a week and

every few weeks we have competitions to see

who can make the best musical instruments,

flags, castles or nature scenes. Lego makes a

great donation for Coconut Club and birthday

presents, we’re sure the children would agree

that you can never have too much! If you would

like to donate some gifts for the children get in

touch over Facebook or email in-

[email protected].

Every Saturday we take a group of

students swimming. It is a great

chance for them to have fun while

learning an important life skill. Thanks

to Thanyapura, Kamala Dreams, the

Palms Resort and Hyatt Regency

we are able to swim even when the

ocean is unsafe.

A huge thank you to our car sponsor,

XL Catlin, we couldn't get there with-

out you! Also, to Kamala Green

Club for teaching the students the

importance of looking after the environment and donating the bags so the children can clean the

beach on the way to swimming.




Black Tie Muay Thai II

The final fundraising event of 2015 was Black

Thai Muay Thai II at Outrigger Laguna Phuket

Beach Resort which was a huge success. We

were so grateful to have local celebrities Kim

’Blue Elephant’ Steppe, Jason ’Paperboy’

Beavan, Jay ’Leshark’ Walker and Leo ’The

Lion’ Ferrari giving up their time to train and

fight. On the night we were joined by Abbey

Stone, a fantastic new singer from Australia.

Thank you to everyone who came and made

the night so special!

In January we were lucky enough to be charity

of choice for PIMEX at Royal Phuket Marina.

This was a great chance for us to spread the

word about all the good work we do and make

some important contacts for the future.

If you were there you will have seen our fantas-

tic new banner which was kindly designed for us

by Khun Bier from

Tranquility RE

Next Event

What: Pop Up at Bliss

When: Saturday 7th May 2016

Where: Bliss Beach Club

After the success of last year’s event, we

are back again this year for the second Pop

Up at Bliss. You can expect fabulous food,

drinks, great music, dancing and more fun!

There will also be the chance to win some

fantastic prizes from our generous spon-

sors. Keep an eye out on our Facebook,

Instagram and Twitter for more information.

Fundraising




The Volunteer Bay and Kamala Green Club

In November 2015 we had a visit from a group of vol-

unteers from The Volunteer Bay. They took the chil-

dren swimming on the beach and then treated them all

to an ice cream afterwards. Thanks to Kamala Green

Club, the children also learned about the importance of

looking after their environment and did a beach clean

before they went swimming. With the donations that the

volunteers kindly made, The Volunteer Bay now spon-

sor a class at Kamala. We look forward to working with

Kamala Green Club and seeing The Volunteer Bay

again soon.

Christmas Tree Campaign

For the second year running we ran our Christmas Tree

Campaign in hotels around the island. We want to thank

all of the hotels who took part and supported us on this

project. This is a great way for us to raise extra funds

and spread the word about the work we do. This year

we raised over 25,000 Baht! Please go to our thank

you page to see the list of hotels who took part.

Phuket Condos & Homes

At Christmas we had a visit from

Andres and Nadear from Phu-

ket Condos & Homes who

sponsor Teacher Meg. We want

to thank them for their continued support, Phuket

Condos & Homes have been sponsoring a teach-

er for the nearly 2 years now. Through their spon-

sorship we have been able to really help change

the lives of our Thai students.

Wishlist

Children's safety scissors

Coloured chalk

A4 laminating sheets

GoPro/waterproof camera to

take swimming

Our Supporters

Baan Rim Pa

Keep an eye out for the poster

at Kalim School which is letting

everyone know that we run the

English programme there

thanks to Baan Rim Pa’s kind

support.




Thank You to our Sponsors Nov 2015 - Mar 2016

69 Slam Swimwear

AKA Thailand Gym

Amari Hotels

Amatara Resort & Wellness

Anantara Dhigu Resort & Spa Maldives

Anantara Phuket Layan Resort & Spa

Anantara Vacation Club Phuket Mai Khao

Angsana Laguna

Aussie Divers

Ayara Kamala Resort & Spa

Baan Rim Pa Kalim

Baan Rim Pa Patong

Banyan Tree Phuket

Beach Republic The Residences, Koh Samui

Ben Fawle

Bliss Beach Club

Blue Elephant Phuket

Blue Mango Bar and Grill

Brand Connect

Bruce Goldman

Cape Sienna

CB Fitness

Chaing Mai Highlands Golf and Spa Resort

Charles and Susie Hay

Clare Allison

Class Act Media

Coral Seekers

Creative Concepts

Da Maurizio

Darren Chaplin

David Roberts

David Strachan

Denise & Grahame Thomas

Destination Properties

Dewa Phuket Resort

Diana Weiderman

DoubleTree Resort by Hilton Surin

dusitD2 Phuket Resort

Elmar Klier & Hayley Mill

EthniCity

Farang Food Paradise

Fatima and Claudio Vianello

Fred and Deanna Stauder

Frederiek Ilona Schrijver-Bollen

Full Moon Brew Work

Grand Mercure Phuket Patong

Hansen Lecher

Hard Rock Café Phuket

Hardwick Family

Heather Bain

Holiday Inn Patong

Hooters Phuket

Howard Banwell

Hype Boat Club

Illuzion Patong

Independent Wine & Spirit

Ingrid Poolen

Italthai

Jagota

Jean-Claude and Khun Kantaya

Jeff Habiby

Khun JJ

Joe's Downstairs

John and Steve Milce

Kate & Philip Spanton

Kathy Davies

Kay and Andy Hunter

Kay and Glen Hodgson

Kelly Messik




Kylie and Albert Chan

Laura Metoudi

Le Versace Restaurant Bar Lounge

lil n hip

Live 89.5 - Class Act Media

Lorna Ross

Luca Cini a Wine Story

Lucy and Bob Adams

Madame Saigon

Manzoni Italian Premium Ice Cream

Map Abday

Mathilde & Stephanie van den Akker

Matt Jennison

Mike Jackson

Movenpick Resort & Spa

Nike Golf Asia

Novotel Phuket Karon

Offner Family

One Love Travel Club

Outrigger Castaway Island Fiji

Outrigger Koh Samui Beach Resort

Outrigger Konotta Maldives Resort

Outrigger Laguna Phuket Beach Resort

Outrigger Mauritius Resort and Spa

Outrigger on the Lagoon Fiji

Paul Ahern

Paul Santry

Pasta Basta

Pernod Ricard Thailand

Phuket Condos & Homes

Phyllis Walters

PIMEX

Polly Sands

Pullman Phuket Arcadia

Real Life Phuket

Reginald Johnson

Reijo Talvitie & family

RnR Décor

Rob and Lini Parr

RPM

SALA Phuket Resort and Spa

Sarah Doukas

Sea Bees Diving

Sea Breeze

Serendipity Designs, Co., Ltd

Serenity Resort & Residence Phuket

Shalini and Ravi Gidumal

Sharon Joyner

Siam Food Services

Singpatong Sitnumnoi

Sofia Bengtsson

Sumalee Gym

Swissotel Resort Phuket

Sylviane and Otilio Riveiro

Thanyapura Sports & Leisure Club

The Aspasia Phuket

The Chava

The Oasis Spa

The Speakeasy

The Surin

The Volunteer Bay

Trudie Horne

Wendy Compson

Wild Wake Phuket

World Class Wines

Worldlennium

XL Catlin

Yoga Republic

Yuwanda Namsanguan

Thank You to our Sponsors Nov 2015 - Mar 2016

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