Project Dates March 2017: 04/03/17 - 11/03/17 - 22/03/17 - 26 to 28/03/17.
Volunteers: Eddie Haworth, Founder/Director at Go-Happiness. Mr Martin & Mrs Ailsa Kneath. Mr Nic & Mrs Ning Burr. Miss Cally Burr.
Paid staff: Khun Polchanok Buasorn.
Transport sponsored by: Monroe Consulting Group - Clown Eckie Corporation - Mr Martin Kneath.
Number of people entertained by Gift of Happiness: Around 2,000 children and families at three International Schools in Bangkok.
Number of beneficiaries: Approximately 200 children, plus teachers, at two orphanages in Nakhon Sawan and Lopbury, Thailand.

Eddie Haworth and volunteer Ailsa Kneath attended the annual Fun Day events at Regents International School in Bangkok where a booth was set-up for the Gift of Happiness Foundation to promote the charity and ask the parents to donate essential clothing, toys and other vital supplies for the foundation to pass-onto some of the neediest people in Thailand. The event was very successful and Regents school are now actively collecting goods for the Gift of Happiness Foundation plus Eddie will be presenting one of his shows for the students who are already showing signs of being very generous...
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Volunteer Administrator to visit the school and give a short presentation before being handed all the donations by the children.
​The children were very attentive and observant during the short talk and viewing of photos of a recent aid giving project to Mae Sot, in North Thailand. Each child presented bags of donations to Eddie and received a GOHF sticker for their school bag as a reminder of the GoHF. A number of parents were also in attendance and also showed great interest in the Foundation and its good work.
Eddie was genuinely appreciative of the huge number of donations from such a relatively small group of children. Donations which will spread happiness!

Project to Nakhon Sawan.
With many schools in the north of Thailand on holiday or children taking exams, the usual week long project was replaced by a rather special three day project. Eddie Haworth, Founder and Martin Kneath Volunteer Administrator set of for Nakhon Sawan in two vehicles just after lunch on Sunday. Eddie had his Clown Show equipment aboard and Martin filled his car with adult, teenage and kids clothes, toys and educational equipment sufficient for the two settings, which were to be visited.

The insurance people duly arrived on the scene and we were able to re-start the four hour drive to Nakhon Sawan within an hour or so of the accident.

Check-out this great little slide show full of HAPPINESS in March 2017... 

Monday morning took us to Saeng Sawan School, where during school holidays about 60 orphans, aged 3 to 18 years are educated. Eddie had visited the School just a couple of months previously and entertained a completely different group of children. Bright, attentive and very proactive children enjoyed the usual rumbustious Clown Eckie show, with the adult Carers also thoroughly enjoying the humour and antics.
As we were not visiting another school in the afternoon, it gave us time to mingle with the children and show them some of Clown Eckie’s ‘kit’ and also to show them some of the photos taken of them. Eddie also handed out some of the donations, something he rarely has time to do himself as this task is usually delegated to volunteers. It was rounded off with an additional donation of ‘ICE-CREAM’ that Eddie was keen to buy for all the children. It never fails to amaze me how patient these children are, no pushing and shoving for donations or ice-cream and highly appreciative of GoHF’s presents and presence!!
Tuesday took us south to Baan Gerda. Baan Gerda is a humanitarian non-profit organization that looks after AIDS orphans in Thailand. It is a project of the Bangkok-based Children's Rights Foundation. The small village community cares for over 70 children that were born with HIV and whose parents died of Aids. The organization has no political or religious associations. (Just like the Gift of Happiness Foundation)
The children's homes have been built on land donated by a famous monk in the Lopburi province, approximately 230 kilometres north of Bangkok, Thailand. Unlike a state orphanage, Baan Gerda has a unique operating model that provides family-style homes for orphans with foster parents looking after the children. All of the parents are HIV positive, thus ensuring they are sensitive to the needs of HIV infected children. It is the only one of its kind in Thailand.
The founders of Baan Gerda are Karl and Tassanee Morsbach, who were originally involved in building schools along the Thai and Burmese border. In total, five schools were built and are now operated by the border police, under the patronage of the King's daughter, Princess Sirindorn.
They turned their attention to the growing problem of Aids orphans and opened the first family home at Baan Gerda in 2001. It was built with their own money and the intention was to ease the children's suffering in whatever life they have left. When ARV medicine became available, their focus changed, as the children were able to live with the disease and lead a relatively normal life. Over the next five years, several more homes were constructed, as they were able to raise funds from within Thailand and abroad. In 2006, Germany honoured Karl and Tassanee Morsbach for their humanitarian work by awarding them the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit. 
The GoHF is pleased to be associated with Baan Gerda and upon arrival Khun Moo gave us a very warm welcome. The Gift of Happiness and Baan Gerda had been recipients of donations from the St David’s Society, Bangkok Ball in 2014 and Eddie and Khun Moo renewed their acquaintance.
Each year students, from Des Antonious Kollegs in Germany, raise funds to donate to Baan Gerda and spend two weeks at the Centre putting into place all the activities they have planned for the children. It was clear from the start how well integrated the students were with the Baan Gerda children, even just after a couple of days after arrival!
Once again, bright attentive and proactive children – and students and staff – enjoyed another madcap Clown Eckie performance. The call to ‘perform’ ‘music, music, music’ was very well received, the highlight of which was a blind teenager being helped forward to contribute amongst wild clapping of appreciation!!
Khun Moo is very keen to support GOHF and will be sending details of suitable schools for the Foundation to visit in the days to come.
There followed a rather long drive back to Bangkok on routs hitherto unknown to Martin and Eddie, but the journey went without incident and the conclusion of yet another Go Happiness aid and show giving project serving hundreds of poor children in Thailand came around 6pm on Tuesday 28th March.

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Gift of Happiness Foundation.
A non profit organization registration number Kor Tor 1914. - Tax I.D: 0-9930-0009226-1 existing under the laws of Thailand is happy to publish the legally required "Annual Project Report" detailing its charitable activities throughout 2016.

About Gift of Happiness Foundation.
We are a non-profit, non-religious organization and have no affiliation with any political parties or extremist groups. Gift of Happiness Foundation maintains strong child protection policies and procedures. The founder, our properly regulated and registered Committee of Trustees and all volunteers are screened to ensure that they meet the legal and ethical requirements for engaging with vulnerable people in Thailand, and our organisation strives to provide a safe, secure environment for all the people we serve. The founder, our Committee of Trustees, administrators and all volunteers are totally unpaid and receive no other financial or in-kind benefits held by the charity. Transparent audited accounts and legal documentation are maintained by SAS Legal Group, Bangkok.

The idea of starting this charity was born in 1992 by British and Swedish born Circus performers, Mr and Mrs Eddie & Charlotte Haworth when they were proprietors of a small Circus company producing traditional “Slapstick Comedy” shows and providing Circus skill training programmes at the University of Liverpool, Everyman Theatre, Liverpool’s, Toxteth Leisure Centre and at schools for disadvantaged children in Merseyside and Manchester, England.
Unhappily, the pressures of work in the entertainment industry and some of Eddie’s personal issues eventually led to the breakdown of Eddie and Charlotte's long and happy marriage in 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.
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Founder, Eddie Haworth writes his message for 2016/17.

During 2016 the charity has received record levels of support from individuals, ex-pat loyal societies, small businesses and even corporate sponsors. -- In short...We have achieved so many of our aims and goals and above all fulfilled our primary goal to…GIVE HAPPINESS!

"I learned to give not because I have so much,
​but because I know exactly what it feels like to have nothing".

However, I think I was still quite a happy child living the same life as all my friends and family who knew very little about how green the grass may be in more affluent parts of the world.

“That’s when I stopped being a victim and started being a survivor.”

More importantly I learned to spot damaged or lost innocence in those who may not yet know how their own childhood is being, or has already been stolen from them. So now I use my training and experience in delivering empathy and pathos via the art of performance, as a tool to help fix so many broken young souls I choose not to ignore. Even better, I enjoy giving the little things that I’m able to give, knowing that the special people who receive those little gifts, may one day look back and realize they turned-out to be some of the big things in their lives.

"The beautiful thing about giving happiness is that nobody can take it away
​from those who receive it".

I believe the body heals with play, so I unconditionally give them toys.

• The mind heals with laughter, so I give them happy memories that no-one can ever steal from them.
• And the spirit heals with inspirational positive thought, so I insist on giving them the self-confidence to engage in child-centred, simple comedy acting!

Positive experiences like having a good old-fashioned laugh helps children living in difficult circumstances to cope and gives them a positive memory that will always belong to them. Seeing and interacting in educational comedy helps children to use their senses and minds to explore then make sense of what they see, feel and experience in the world around them.
These simple lessons on how to think "out of the box" have been shown to help children find new and positive ways to turn a bad situation into a good one. Lessons on how to be happy also help develop positive dispositions and attitudes towards learning many other life skills needed to overcome some of the difficult tasks ahead.
And Finally...
When I am on my deathbed, what others think of me is going to be a long way from my mind. How wonderful it will be to let go knowing that I may not have wasted my re-born years wallowing in selfish thoughts or deeds. I may even get a revengeful crinkly lip when I think of how I survived the evilness of those cowards who tried to control my innocence. I conquered them all and learned how to turn the bad, sad years into something wholesome and good to pass-onto other innocent souls.
“Now my passion is to continue GIVING HAPPINESS until the final curtain closes my Clown Parade”.
Whole report link below;
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