บางกอกแอร์เวย์สจัดค่ายศิลปะเด็กเกาะสมุยปีที่ 12

“เมื่อเร็ว ๆ นี้ ในวันหยุดสุดสัปดาห์ที่ผ่านมา เด็กด้อยโอกาสจากมูลนิธิคุณพ่อเรย์ จำนวน 8 คน ได้รับโอกาสที่ดีจากทางสายการบินบางกอกแอร์เวย์ส และโรงแรมอมารี ปาล์ม รีฟ เกาะสมุย เข้าร่วมค่ายยุวะศิลปะปีที่ 12 ที่อำเภอเกาะสมุย”

เมื่อวันที่ 24-26 มิ.ย. 54 ที่สวนป่าเฉลิมพระเกียรติ โรงเรียนวัดสว่างอารมณ์ อำเภอเกาะสมุย จังหวัดสุราษฎร์ธานี สายการบินบางกอกแอร์เวย์ส และสนามบินสมุย ร่วมกับเทศบาลอำเภอเกาะสมุย จัดโครงการค่ายยุวะศิลปะปีที่ 12 ภายใต้หัวข้อ “ในหลวง 84 พรรษา” (เพิ่มเติม…)

Father Ray Day Care Center

In many parts of the world the small speckled quail’s egg is a delicacy. Often found in upscale grocery stores they are often classed as a luxury food, with a price tag that is out of the price range for many.

However, here in Thailand quail eggs are as common as hen’s eggs, and young Thai children love to eat them. At the Father Ray Day Care Center the youngsters from class 3 were given a cooking class to help prepare eggs for lunch time.

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Redemptorist Vocational School for People with Disabilities

The annual wai kru ceremony is a Thai ritual in which students pay respects to their teachers in order to express their gratitude and formalize the student-teacher relationship. It is regularly held near the beginning of the school year in most schools in Thailand, and always on a Thursday in the month of June.

Following the daily morning assembly every student from the Vocational School for People with Disabilities gathered in front of the main stage and welcomed the teaching staff, Thai and foreign volunteers.

Once all the teaching staff were seated one of the students led the others in repeating the students’ oath or paying respect to their teachers.

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Father Ray Day Care Center

Each school, college and university will select a Thursday in June to celebrate what is known here in Thailand as ‘Wai Kru’. A ‘wai’ is when Thai’s place their two hands together as a mark of respect. ‘Kru’ is the Thai name for teacher, so ‘Wai Kru’ is the day when students pay respect to your teachers.

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Father Ray Children’s Home

The day started so well when a soccer team traveled from Bangkok to play a match against the boys from the Father Ray Children’s Home. Spectators crowded around the sports court, the referee brought the two teams together, they shook hands and the whistle to start the game was blown. All went well for three minutes, then the heavens opened and the rain fell. The crowd ran for cover and the players were sliding all over the place. With so much water the sports court was too dangerous to play on so they moved over to the grassed soccer pitch. The referee decided that as one team had traveled all the way from Bangkok then the game should continue, in the rain. The game started again, and the rain fell and continued to fall for the next hour and a half. By the time the half time whistle was blown the pitch was flooded, players were soaked through and after hiding under the trees for five minutes play commenced. If the rain was not enough, the first clap of thunder had the young ball boys running for cover and still the referee ordered the teams to play on. At the end of the game the pitch had so much water that the boys had to pour the water out of their soccer boots, and the final score was a draw.

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Father Ray Outreach Work & Drop-In Center

The brand new Half Way House officially opened in January of this year. Two young men were very excited to be the first two residents of the house, and for a few months everything was going well. They enjoyed living in the house, were learning to become independent and were relying less on the support staff from the nearby Drop-In Center. A third young man joined the household and they were all happily living together, until recently. Thais are very superstitious, and many believe in spirits, or ‘Pii’ as they are called here in Thailand. One of the boys complained that he had heard noises and felt someone was in the house when he was alone. A staff member then mentioned that she too felt that there was a ‘Pii’ in the house and she would no longer enter the building. One young man was so scared about being in the house alone that he would wait until his housemates returned home from work late at night before entering the house.
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