Founder, Eddie Haworth was accompanied by three volunteers when they all attended the last day of funeral rights and cremation of Khun Attapol Kechararat at Wat Sam Ma Kan near Ayutthaya. Before the cremation we delivered another truck-load of games, toys and educational equipment to the school and handed them over to the head teacher and some of the students who were allowed to leave their classes for the hand-over.
We also paid a short visit to the computer studies room where we provided some new air conditioning units last year. It was great to see the Children learning via a PC projector in their air-con room and Eddie also took the opportunity to re-asses the need for more computers to help the children develop their computer skills. We still need to acquire twelve computers for the school and we hope to reach this goal before mid year 2012.
The head teacher has recently bought an old school bus (with his own money). He used to use his own car to collect some of the 62 students every day. Now he hopes the new bus will save him a lot of time at both ends of the school day. Eddie has many years of experience as a mechanical engineer when he was a traveling circus performer and he's quite concerned about the safety of this old bus. He is considering ways to help get the vehicle replaced or at least fixed-up with reliable brakes and other important maintenance.
Following the funeral and visit to the school, Eddie tried to negotiate a price to have a police escort for the buses when we take the children on their big day out in Bangkok on 1st March. We hope it will be possible to have this so the children will feel like proper VIP's on their big day out.
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