Activities

1. “An Older Brother… I Offer this food” 2. “One egg…Sharing with two children”

3. Flip Flop…For Little Pupil : “Flip Flops…for Little Pupils” is one of the activities that FORDEC has continually run to fulfill the poor children’s need. The foundation buys and/or asks for donation of shoes from many generous people to distribute to the poor children in suburb and the border around Srakaew, Surin, Burerum, Chieng Mai, Chieng Rai, Nan, Srisaket, Nakorn Rajchasrima, Samutprakarn, Khon Kaen, and Bangkok. FORDEC has already given slippers to the children about 40,000 pairs. After the children got shoes, they are happier. Previously, the children had to work without shoes for about 2-3 kilometers to school. They always got a little accident with their feet that can cause the disease infection. The children wish to have the beautiful and colorful slippers. The children are allowed to wear slippers to school.

This activity has been performed since 2000 – present. There are many children waiting for donated shoes that can be create a smile on them.


4. Play Ground…. for a little child : FORDEC generates this activity because we realize of the importance of the recreation and relaxation towards the poor children. To play with friends in the proper playground can help develop the children’s growth and increase the physical and mental ability of the children. The playground can also be the teaching tool for the children. The foundation tried to provide all decent equipments like toys to the playground. We emphasized on the playground at Child Development Center and Pre-school Day Care Center in the local temple. Whereas the local schools in suburb that lack the sport equipments, the foundation helped them by buying and the donation of sport equipments, for example, football, volleyball, basketball, table-tennis, and badminton. This is part of the activity named “Second Hand Sport Equipments….for Poor Children” The objective of this activity is to enhance the physical, mental, social, and intellectual abilities of the children. This is also to let the relevant organizations realize of the usefulness of exercise. If the children pay attention to their exercise, they will be away from drugs addiction. FORDEC has performed this activity since 1998 – present.

5. Sharing's Toy…. to kids :

6. Sharing 's love….to children : FORDEC and the generous sponsors take part in the activity of “Sharing’s love...to Kids” by donating things like dolls, toys, clothing, shoes, and stationary or educational equipments such as pencils, pens, rubbers, rulers, etc. They are including all old and new things and foods. We also perform a special activity in special occasion like birthday party, New year party, anniversary party, valentine party, and children day party or any day that the sponsor wants to have a party with children.

Since the foundation was open in 1998 until now, we continually operate this activity for children. This activity makes the children and all participants happy and joyful. FORDEC generates this activity because we realize of the importance of the library towards the children.


7. Bicycle…for poor student…to Attend School : FORDEC has set the activity named “Bicycle…for poor students…to Attend School” in order to fulfill the children’s need. They have to work for about 3 kilometers to school everyday. Last 2 years, FORDEC provided 6,000 bicycles which worth about 7.6 million baht to children in 164 schools at Chieng Mai, Chieng Rai, Nan, Mae Hong Sorn, Chaiyapoom, Surin, Burerum, Srisaket, Srakaew, Nongkai, Chonburi, Nakorn Rajchasrima, Singburi, Lopburi, and Bangkok. Japanese government donated 95% of the budget and another 5% was from generous people. There are many advantages from this activity, for example, save the expenses of children’s family, learn to be responsible for public things, how to fix the bicycle, learn to share with friends, arrive school in time, can concentrate more on lesson, and it is a good way of daily exercise.

The bicycles donated in this activity are actually for the children that have to walk for a long distance especially those in Bang La Mung Day Care Center, Chonburi. The bicycles donated are not enough for all 165 children in 6 buildings, so we try to find more for them. After this activity, we found that the children have a better mental health.

Now there are over 17,956 students from 1,219 schools in 15 provinces waiting for donated bicycles.


8. “School Library”

9. Milk for a little child : "Milk" is only and a necessary food for the baby especially in time of early childhood. It has all the quality lactate, mineral and nutrient food for physical and mental grow of the child’s and it is very critical for human survival during that stage.

FORDEC aware of this great importance and tried it best to answer to these needs by regularly provide milk to all needy babies. There are currently about 1,200 children in 4 different places in Bangkok and in rural areas need a regular supply of milk. Many of them are orphaned some from broken family and poor family lived with their relatives or grand parents who did not have enough income to raise them properly. Many of their parents are daily-workers with a meager income not enough to buy milk for their children. FORDEC is fully aware of the fact that the family or society should not neglect all children because the child is the future of the world. We seek contribution from every one to help those children grow.


10. "Sponsorship to Improve a Child's Future"

11. Study Equipment…. for poor student : The foundation is set for giving the opportunity for the poor children who are well behaved and intend to learn but have no money. The objectives of FORDEC are to reduce the difficulties of the poor children and their family, parents, or guardians, to create the good morale so that they can realize of the ethics and good deed. There are a large number of the poor children waiting for help especially during the beginning of the new semester. The children are from all over the country, Bangkok and suburb. This is to increase the living standard of the children. Many children have problems in study because they lack the educational equipments and uniform such as Boy Scout uniform and sport wear, and shoes. They also have some problem about getting along with their friends because their friends are disgusted them.

After the foundation has performed this activity since 1999 till now, the children are happy, self-confident, well behaved, and have more hope. This is because they are under FORDEC conditions that the children must report to the foundation, respect to the adults, and be thankful to FORDEC.

The foundation has everyone’s profiles. The information in this profile can be a good source for consideration about the future helps. The importance is that we hope to reduce the task and difficulties of the children family so that the children can be self-reliance and be better off in the future.


12. Sharing 's things…for all Distressed…. with love : FORDEC cooperates with all generous sponsors and kind people perform for the donation of all necessary things for those who are suffering from the poverty and natural disaster. This help includes money, clothing, medicine, foods, and other essential things for survival. This is to help them reduce their sufferings and difficulties in life so that they can be self-reliance later. The foundation has operated this activity since 1998 till now.



13. Food for all poor Family : FORDEC cooperates with our generous sponsors and other kind people continually open for the donation of money, rice, and dried foods for the sufferers since 1999 till now. The things donated are about fish sauce, sugar, vegetable oils, salt, tomato sauce, canned food, egg, and instant noodle, etc. In the year 2002, the foundation was donated for 10 tons of rice from TOYOTA MOTOR (THAILAND) Co., LTD., in the occasion of 40 years anniversary of the company in Thailand. Regarding to the purpose of the company, FORDEC distributed this large amount of rice to the poor children and families in Surin, Burerum, Srisaket, Chaiyapoom, samutprakarn, and Bangkok.
 

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Lunch Program & Agriculture for lunch “Lunch for a beloved child”
 
 
 “Food” is one of the four essential ingredients for life, upon which we humans depend on for life. “Lunch for a beloved child” is one of FORDEC’S programs for the development of a child. This program has been initiated by FORDEC to alleviate the necessity of hungry children to have a good lunch for those students lacking enough nutritious food to sustain them, which the government in many cases cannot supply. From statistics it was found that only about 30% of children in rural, remote areas, receive such assistance, since the government has not enough budget for this. Those still awaiting lunch program assistance everywhere are found to consist of great numbers.
 
 FORDEC Foundation has been huge promoting this program since the 2000 school year and has supported the program with a budget, assisting several thousand children in four provinces, Buriram, Srisaket, Sakeo, and Suran. Besides this there are several hundred children under the sponsorship of the foundation who are receiving such assistance. These children are in various provinces of the country such as Chiangmai, Nan, Uttaradit, Angtong, Kalasin, Khon Kaen, Chaiyapoom, Nakorn Rachasima, Nakorn Sritammarat, Samutprakarn and Bangkok.
 
 The lunch program is just a part of the sponsorship program, whose title is: Promoting Education for Building the Future. These children also receive overall help in every part of education. The children not only gain normal weight, but also better learning ability, better health, and regular school attendance.
 
 In order to carry out these programs, the FORDEC foundation needs a lot of fund and FORDEC would like to appeal to all concerned for more contribution to support the program.
 
 
 Education & Development for poor student Program“Sponsorship to Improve a Child’s Future”
 
 Children are the nation’s future human resources. Perhaps the most important means in developing them to become good citizens is primarily via good education to help them develop physically, mentally, emotionally and socially, all at the same time. This will help them to grow up into quality adulthood and contribute in developing the nation in turn. All social sectors must be made aware of these priorities and collaborate in support and in prevention of all obstacles before it’s too late.
 
 One of FORDEC’s most important missions is to uphold a vision of education for needy children, to stay in school. FORDEC also looks for sponsors for those kids to promote the program “Sponsorship for Education”… helping build young people’s future. The program will give continuing assistance to needy children for their education. It is person to person sponsorship program with only 25 baht per day, or 750 baht per month or 9,000 baht per year. You alone, or you as part of one organization or company where all staff join in to sponsor such a dream of a bright future for one child for any length of time, will be fully appreciated. There are no time limitations or other commitments to the child or family.
 
 Past results of this program have shown that such sponsor-child relationship, rather than alienate the child from its own family, have motivated the child to attend higher education and helped even encouraged the family to love the child more and overcome other obstacles. Currently there are more than 2,000 children, who have been carefully screened and are awaiting sponsorship. Those children are all over in the upcountry such as Chiangmai, Chiangrai, Nan, Nakorn Panom, Surin Burirum, Srakaew, Samutprakarn and many others along with Bangkok. Needless to say they are all from very poor families. Some are orphans of aids victim, orphans from separated parents and some are just left with grandparents or relatives. Some fortunate ones are living at program centers and only go home once a month because their homes are in the mountains, remote and lacking all necessary resources. Most parents are laborers working daily wages whose overall earnings are below the poverty line. Those children’s future lie totally in the hands of kind hearted adults in our society. They place their hope in FORDEC and your assistance.
 
 The program for education and development of the deprived children requires FORDEC foundation to offer special assistance before the commencement of each educational year. There will be parents, young people come to the center or hand in letters plea for help in tuition fees ranging from pre-school to post graduate studies. Those fees go to all types of educational institutions such as centers, schools, college, institute and universities etc. The needs for education expenses range from a few hundred baht up to over 30,000 in each case. Besides feeds, they also lack materials to go to school such as clothing, uniforms, books, pens, school bags, shoes etc. FORDEC foundation has been spending almost one million baht for such need since 2003 till today.
 
 
 
 “Welfare and development…for Elderly people program”
 
 
 1. This program is set up to take care of poor and homeless elderly people who are abandoned by the family and are incapable of taking care of themselves.
 2. To assist the aged people who still live with families but in need of medical care or physical therapy but are too poor to afford the professional services needed.
 3. To take away some of the burden of poor families who can not afford to take care of aged parents and to prevent some social illnesses such as roaming homeless elderly people. Such assistance will keep them reasonably decent and happy in our society.
 4. Such will be an act of gratitude towards the old who once contributed to our society. Such a program will help alleviate their concern when they get too old to make a living and knowing that the government can not reach out to look after all of them.
 
 In the past, FORDEC Foundation has offered help to the aged in the following areas:
 
 1. In Samutprakarn Province, 9 cases via Channukroe Institute.
 2. In Nakorn Rachasrima, 56 families and over 100 families in the Metropolitan Bangkok.
 3. Help provide several types of equipments for phi seal therapy at 2 centers for the elderly in Prae province. There are about 3,500 members who come regularly for services. These 2 centers are located in Song district and Nongmuangkai district.
 
 Currently there are about over 150 families in Chaiyaphum province awaiting help from FORDEC foundation. Some old couples live alone, some are lucky to live with children or grandchildren. But 95% of them are under the poverty line, lacking even the most basic needs for survival such as “Food”. Most are paralyzed, suffering undernourishment, high blood pressure, malfunction of bladder etc. Some 2 years ago, a community leader asked FORDEC to help transport an amount of rice donated to those poor families, FORDEC immediately responded to the request.
 
 
 “School Library”
 
 The Foundation of Rehabilitation and Development of Children and Family (FORDEC) has established the program in recognition of the importance of a community library in the creation of the education and intellectual wee-being of the children. It will help instill the love of reading books, help entertaining the children in their spare time. FORDEC requests donations of books from kind donors and help supply books and other educational materials to various libraries all over the county with dictionaries, text books, school learning equipments, media for education such as TV sets, video, VCDs, radio, tapes etc. For example, we received over 40,000 copies of the royal writing called Phra Mahachanok (cartoon version). FORDEC has distributed those books to over 2,500 provincial schools in Surin, Buriram, Srisaket, Mukdaharn, Nakornpanom, Chiangmai, Chiangrai, Nan, Srakaew, Kalasin Nokornsirthammarat, Cholburi, Uttaradit, Tak, Sukhotai and Bangkok
 
 Moreover, FORDEC has been assisting the following school libraries: Santowitthaya school in Utradit Province and Sulao Klongchan School in Bangkok. Also school libraries of Tubtin Siam 05 in Srakaew Province (a royal sponsored school by Her Royal Highness Princess Chulapornwalailuck), Library of the Foundation of Srichumpabarn Sisters at Dindaeng in Bangkok, the School library of Kirikarn at Kaokaew village, Lansapha district in Nakornrajsima province, the Community Library for the program for education and development for children in Chaiyaphum province and at Maechaem district in Chiangmai province etc. However, there are still more needs for books, text books and other educational materials and mediums for those remote areas at the border between Thailand and Cambodia. Good books for the children are much in needs amongst those families who are mostly living under the standard mean.