Project WIN: Grassroots Partnerships for Thailand

All over Thailand, families celebrate Children’s Day with games and small gifts.  This year Project WIN  volunteers organized a big Children’s Day event at Khun Lao.  They put up a stage and sound system and  decorated the village  square for all-day live entertainment They brought loads of gifts: food,  toys and stuffed animals.  Project WIN believes that building community with local leaders, villagers, and  volunteers will strengthen working relationships throughout the New Year.  Here are the pictures. Project Leader Entertains the Kids with a Funny Song Every Childrens Day Has  Least One Race If you count stuffed animals the village population doubled on Chrildren's day. Musical Chairs, Thai style Leaders take a break The Thai Version of "Simon Says."   These volunteer leaders may have been the most popular act   American Visitor Invited to Help...

Project WIN volunteers and donors focus on the kids at Khun Lao village.   If the children learn to raise  frogs and fish and mushrooms for food, their families’ diets will improve long term.  Volunteers from the fisheries department at Maejo came to teach them. When the kids grow  up they’ll take over the ponds and cisterns and the mushroom hotel for the next generation. Last week Project WIN and village leaders put on a Learn by Doing day, a hands-on experience in the  new community projects. They set up stations around the village, one to teach frog life cycles, one for  fish culture, and one for mushrooms. The kids saw demonstrations and then got into the act. For  example, they placed several hundred bags of mushroom culture in the mushroom hotel.  In this picture some of the younger boys are checking the frog cisterns, now that they've learned to tell girl frogs from boy frogs.  In the picture below, the kids are are...