GIFT OF HAPPINESS FOUNDATION (GoHF) SIMPLY GIVES PEOPLE IN NEED A MASSIVE
INJECTION OF HAPPINESS BY PROVIDING
LIFE’S ESSENTIALS AND SOME UNIQUE, EDUCATIONAL, WHOLESOME ENTERTAINMENT.
How did it all start?
Gift of Happiness Volunteers work hard to serve needy children in Thailand
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The idea of starting this charity was born in 1992 by British and Swedish born circus performers, Mr & Mrs Eddie & Charlotte Haworth when they were running their UK circus skill training workshops for disadvantaged kids in Liverpool, England.
Unhappily, the pressures of work in the entertainment industry eventually led to the breakdown of Eddie and Charlotte's long and happy marriage when they decided to go their separate ways around 1995. Eddie suffered a period of bereavement and depression, but still forced himself to redevelop his comedy acting career as a "Classic Sad Clown" solo performer. This new career led him to spend several very successful years performing in Theatres, Circus, TV shows, Galas and Festivals all over Europe, USA, Scandinavia, China and the Middle East. |
In the year 2000, Eddie was delighted to be invited to Bangkok for a charity performance which was being held at the British Embassy. When it became clear that the invitation was to entertain some orphans from a Bangkok city slum, he couldn't resist the offer. It didn't take long for him to decide that this may be the right place to continue doing what he does best, which is making people laugh. He also soon realized that this was probably the right place to put the past behind him and re-start his life by devoting himself to bringing a little laughter and some positive memories to people whose lives often lack these important pleasures.
These life changing times in the life of this Clown have now become a perfect replacement for the love he lost all those years ago. Eddie now considers himself to be one of the happiest Clowns around since he became totally committed to the charity that has become his never ending life partner and eternal true love.
Site links - Short TV documentary about us
These life changing times in the life of this Clown have now become a perfect replacement for the love he lost all those years ago. Eddie now considers himself to be one of the happiest Clowns around since he became totally committed to the charity that has become his never ending life partner and eternal true love.
Site links - Short TV documentary about us
Full charitable status for the Gift of happiness Foundation in Thailand was granted by the Royal Thai Government on the 15th December 2009. Membership of the League of Foundations of Thailand Under The Royal Patronage of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej was granted in March 2010. Foundation Registration number: Kor Tor 1914. - Tax I.D: 0-9930-0009226-1
Important details about Gift of Happiness Foundation (GoHF)
- GoHF is a non-profit, non-religious organization and has no affiliation with any political parties or extremist groups.
- GoHF has absolutely NO ulterior motives for helping needy people. GoHF simply gives people in need a massive injection of happiness by providing life’s essentials and some unique, educational, wholesome entertainment.
- All volunteers who may have any contact with vulnerable people have completed the required documentation showing they are safe to work with vulnerable adults and children.
- Volunteers applying to work with GoHF on projects to support vulnerable people must provide the required documentation showing they are safe to work with vulnerable adults and children.
- New volunteers joining GoHF must also show that they are not members of any groups whose opinions may influence any of the existing volunteers or staff at GoHF or the people served by GoHF.
- GoHF has a properly regulated and registered board of Trustees consisting of five Thai Nationals. Here
- GoHF Founder/Director is an award winning Professional Entertainer and Educator from the UK. Now a long term expatriate in Thailand.
- GoHF has a published child protection policy, as defined by the GoHF British Founder/Director and the GoHF board of Thai trustees Here
- In 2005 the GoHF Founder/Director personally provided all funding for the organisations’ set-up, legal registration, administration, two vehicles, aid-giving projects and general running costs. GoHF Founder/Director continues to provide some operational running costs and has provided an essential new vehicle for GOHF in 2018. Read more.
- Since 2016 GoHF has been supported with staff salaries, office and warehouse rental, utility bills and a new small truck given in 2015 by Monroe Consulting Group, Bangkok; Read more.
FACT: You have found one of the very few charities on planet earth that does not tell whopping great lies about why they need to spend a massive percentage of their income on admin/executive salaries etc...
What we do to help the needy in Thailand
- GoHF serves an average 2,000 very needy children and families in Thailand every month of the year.
- We serve 'real' orphans, street children, Bangkok slum dwellers, families living on garbage dumps, crisis centres for abused women and children, communities of migrant worker families and people displaced by civil war who live in refugee camps along the Thai/Burma borders.
- We give many tons of educational supplies, clothing/uniforms/new underwear, toys, bedding and toiletries every month.
- We also provide medical aid to a couple of large free clinics serving many thousands of people in one of the poorest regions of Thailand.
- FACT: All volunteers including Mr. Eddie Haworth, Founder/Director at GoHF are totally unpaid and often make personal contributions towards operational costs.
- FACT: Eddie's fancey truck was paid for and is fully maintained by Eddie Haworth. All other vehicles were paid for by Monroe Consulting Group, Bangkok.
- FACT: GoHF has only two full time staff, a driver/handyman & administration assistant who are both paid by our only corporate sponsor, Monroe Consulting Group, Bangkok. Monroe also supports the rent and utilities at the Go Happiness Centre/office/warehouse and provided the charity with a pickup truck in 2015. The GoHF Trailer was a generous gift from one of Eddie's friends.
- FACT: GoHF receives NO government or other support-agency funding and gets less than $150-usd.p/mth (amended 20/06/2020) from C/Card or P/Pal contributions. CONTRIBUTE HERE
- GoHF receives a great deal of used garments, toys, educational supplies and so on from International schools in Bangkok.
- More goods come from Expat and Thai families, clubs, societies, small businesses, and the British or other Embassies in Bangkok.
- GoHF also receives regular gifts of educational books and even school furniture from universities, music academies and mindful individuals.
- Each GoHF monthly aid giving project, including donated goods collections and transportation, costs ฿45,000 ($1,400-usd) to produce.
- Small donations from individuals, clubs, societies and International schools account for less than 50% of our annual expenditure. The remaining amounts are covered by GoHF Founder, Eddie Haworth's earnings as a professional entertainer and occasional gifts of cash from Eddie's friends.
Financial needs as-of January 2020.
- FACT: GoHF simply never has any 'excess working capital' because every single ฿$€£¥-etc that comes to us is used ONLY for the purposes of supporting the people we serve. Therefore the charity is constantly in need of financial support, just to keep afloat and any extra money we receive is spent on essential expansion of the organisation so we can serve even more people in need.
- FACT: GoHF needs regular monthly donations totalling ฿50,000 ($1,500-usd) p/mth. "We never even get close to that figure".
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