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Throughout April and May 2019, the Gift of Happiness Foundation has been providing daily free handouts of toiletries, towels, toys and clothing to homeless people, street kids and garbage/scrap collectors who regularly visit the Go Happiness Centre.
The Charity has also served slum dwellers and people living on Garbage dumps with essential aid like towels, bedding, clothing and much needed goods in the lead-up to the rainy season in Thailand.
The Charity has also served slum dwellers and people living on Garbage dumps with essential aid like towels, bedding, clothing and much needed goods in the lead-up to the rainy season in Thailand.
On 15/05/19, the Charity went back to three locations for the third time in six weeks and served around 1,000 people with another two truckloads of essentials. Those people live on a Garbage Dump and within Shanty Tows in the district of Samutpakhan.
On 18/05/19, GoHF plan another aid giving project aimed at giving some older residents of the Garbage Dump and one of the Shanty Towns, some much needed aid to help carry them through the upcoming rainy season in Thailand...
On 18/05/19, GoHF plan another aid giving project aimed at giving some older residents of the Garbage Dump and one of the Shanty Towns, some much needed aid to help carry them through the upcoming rainy season in Thailand...
Volunteers attending the Gift of Happiness Foundation (GoHF) Aid Giving Project in support of Slum/Shanty town and Garbage Dump Dwellers, in Samutprakhan District near Bangkok; Eddie Haworth, Dougie Brown, Renato G Porzio and three members of the Samutprakhan International Ladies Club who were invited as potential sponsor.
GoHF Main Sponsor; Monroe Consulting Group Project Sponsor; Mr Eddie Haworth, Founder at Gift of Happiness Foundation.
15/05/19; Report by GoHF Volunteer, Dougie Brown...
Thanks to Eddie and the GoH Foundation staff (including volunteer Renato) for inviting me to join yesterday's eye-opening, yet enjoyable, trip to distribute charity donations to three separate communities in Samutprakhan.
| The province, on the east side of the mouth of the Chao Phraya and now easily accessible by BTS from central Bangkok, is a popular tourist destination for locals but is also home to some heavy industry due to it's location near the port. Tanneries, garment factories and seafood processing plants attract migrant workers in huge numbers who end up living in shacks made from wood, corrugated iron, plastic bags and cardboard boxes. The first of our visits was to a small, mostly Khmer, settlement next door to a factory and adjacent to a compressed rubbish tip. |  |
As our convoy of three vehicles drove up, a crowd of around 20 smiling faces started to gather round to help us unload the deliveries of clothes, toys and toiletries. These were shared out amongst the young and old and we left, around an hour later, to waves and wais.
The second of our visits took us along a potholed road by the side of what looked to be a heavily polluted lake. Trucks came and went all the time and only a young entrepreneur with a juice trolley, who could have been transplanted from a downtown shopping mall, reminded us how close we were to Bangkok.
The second of our visits took us along a potholed road by the side of what looked to be a heavily polluted lake. Trucks came and went all the time and only a young entrepreneur with a juice trolley, who could have been transplanted from a downtown shopping mall, reminded us how close we were to Bangkok.
| Our destination was a community who have been living on a landfill site for over 40 years. Electricity cables were strung up over the roofs and trees to power the fans in the shacks higher up on the tip. Wild boar wandered around and the whole experience was made quite eerie by an odd, chemical odour which possibly came from a nearby tannery. Whilst life seemed unbelievably hard there yesterday afternoon, it's impossible to imagine how tough it is going to be, especially at night, now that the rainy season is here. And as if things weren't bad enough, a large sign was recently put up to announce that the whole community was about to be evicted, including a woman who cannot walk and who has lived there for 40 years. |  |
Nobody really knows what will happen but I hope that the GoH visit today, as well as providing the donations and the fun of the distribution, will let them know that they haven't been forgotten by everybody.
We left with a promise to return soon and made our way back past the lake - where even the wild boar won't dip their heads - to our final destination - a shanty town stretching out on two sides of a main road.
We left with a promise to return soon and made our way back past the lake - where even the wild boar won't dip their heads - to our final destination - a shanty town stretching out on two sides of a main road.
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This child lives in a makeshift shed built
over a stinking open sewer flowing with chemical discharge.
The remainder of the goods were unloaded and 30-40 people came to receive their share of the donations. The local shop owner made us welcome and the local motorcycle taxi drivers helped with the heavy work.
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We were also joined on the day by three representatives of the Samutprakhan International Ladies Club who were invited as observers but rolled up their sleeves, lugged the bags to and from the trucks, sorted the goods and greatly helped to spread the fun of the day.
Thanks to them, Eddie and his team, Renato and the smiling, spirited people we met in the three communities for a very memorable experience.
End report by Dougie Brown.
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Please consider purchasing a few sets for the thousands of needy children we will be serving before the end of July 2019
Please consider purchasing a few sets for the thousands of needy children we will be serving before the end of July 2019
100% pledge; Donations go directly to fund our projects Gift of Happiness Foundation pledges to ensure that 100% of public and corporate donations will go directly to fund our projects.
We provide vital aid and edutainment giving projects serving an average 2,000 children in need every month, plus many more families who are living in the slums of Bangkok. We cannot achieve this alone. The support of our donors, campaigners and friends is vital, so we want to make sure that we operate an efficient and effective organisation, directing our donor’s money where it is most needed. This is where our 100% pledge comes in.
In 2005, our Founder, Mr Eddie Haworth (AKA Clown Eckie Corporation) provided more than 500,000-THB ($15,964-USD) as required in legal fees and Government registration fees to set-up the Thai registered charity, Gift of Happiness Foundation. Eddie also provided the main 4x4 off-road capable vehicle needed for the charity to bring essential goods to remote parts of Thailand. He still covers repayments and maintenance costs for the latest 4x4 vehicle, purchased in 2018 at a cost of ฿1.2 million-THB ($38,300-USD). Eddie continued to cover all other running costs until Monroe Consulting Group, Bangkok made a 100% pledged to take-over those costs in 2015.
In 2015, our inspirational gold sponsor, Monroe Consulting Group gave Gift of Happiness Foundation the gift of a brand-new truck and a pledge to provide monthly cash donations to cover the Gift of Happiness Foundation’s core running costs; including administration, fundraising and office costs.
Thanks to the generous support of Monroe Consulting Group, 100% of the money you give to Gift of Happiness Foundation will go directly to Gift of Happiness Foundation projects and not to overhead or administrative costs.
100% pledge; The following core running costs are covered by Monroe Consulting Group and the Clown Eckie Corporation; Fundraising and administration costs - Governance costs - Rent, service charges and utilities such as electricity, postage and carriage - insurance - Telephone and fax - Office stationery services and expenses - IT services - Bank charges - Recruitment - Audit, payroll and accountancy fees
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We provide vital aid and edutainment giving projects serving an average 2,000 children in need every month, plus many more families who are living in the slums of Bangkok. We cannot achieve this alone. The support of our donors, campaigners and friends is vital, so we want to make sure that we operate an efficient and effective organisation, directing our donor’s money where it is most needed. This is where our 100% pledge comes in.
In 2005, our Founder, Mr Eddie Haworth (AKA Clown Eckie Corporation) provided more than 500,000-THB ($15,964-USD) as required in legal fees and Government registration fees to set-up the Thai registered charity, Gift of Happiness Foundation. Eddie also provided the main 4x4 off-road capable vehicle needed for the charity to bring essential goods to remote parts of Thailand. He still covers repayments and maintenance costs for the latest 4x4 vehicle, purchased in 2018 at a cost of ฿1.2 million-THB ($38,300-USD). Eddie continued to cover all other running costs until Monroe Consulting Group, Bangkok made a 100% pledged to take-over those costs in 2015.
In 2015, our inspirational gold sponsor, Monroe Consulting Group gave Gift of Happiness Foundation the gift of a brand-new truck and a pledge to provide monthly cash donations to cover the Gift of Happiness Foundation’s core running costs; including administration, fundraising and office costs.
Thanks to the generous support of Monroe Consulting Group, 100% of the money you give to Gift of Happiness Foundation will go directly to Gift of Happiness Foundation projects and not to overhead or administrative costs.
100% pledge; The following core running costs are covered by Monroe Consulting Group and the Clown Eckie Corporation; Fundraising and administration costs - Governance costs - Rent, service charges and utilities such as electricity, postage and carriage - insurance - Telephone and fax - Office stationery services and expenses - IT services - Bank charges - Recruitment - Audit, payroll and accountancy fees
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