By Angie Sullivan | Cofounder, Project Leader
The children in Thailand begin their school year in mid-May. The mid-term affords the children, and teachers, a well-deserved break. Some take the month long time to join extended family and help harvest rice. Others have neither the time to take from work nor the finances to travel. The parents of GRACE children appreciate the family resource centers' day camp activities as it affords them the opportunity to work with peace knowing their children are not only being cared for but thriving in a learning environment they cannot afford to provide for them.
The family resource centers in Thailand serve eighty-seven children each day. The staff ensure the doors are opened at 7:00 AM as parents are traveling to work and close around 5:30 PM as parents complete their day. Amidst the typical day of receiving adequate nutrition, having lots of fun, rotating through classrooms to enhance language, mathematic and reading skills, the children are afforded the opportunity to develop and build computer skills. Our compassionate staff understand the children will have greater opportunities in careers as they eliminate computer illiteracy.
GRACE centers utilize computers to teach English language lessons, word documents, keyboarding, and more. One of the more exciting utilizations of the computers during day camp was the video conference teaching of weaving and looming to create headbands and toboggans. A few volunteers from USA brought in weaving looms and yarn. They not only taught the skill, they resourced the centers with the supplies necessary to advance their skills. The staff and children of the first center, where the American team volunteered, taught the staff and children of the second center via the computers. Webinars at their best! Right?
Wow! What a tremendous utilization of the computers your donations help to place in our centers. Because of you, children are advancing academically and practically. THANK YOU!
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