Site/tomtHere is some pictures of the site which Faa lang fon will make into a center for the Karen people in Khun Yuam city. It's almost 6 rai (1 rai= 1600 sqm) and like you can see in the picture above, its quite beautiful there. We just started to build a house where poor children from the mountain can stay while they go to secondary and high school in Khun Yuam. We hope we soon can offer 40 children a place to stay while they are studing. The house will be built using bamboo and earth. This time the local people will help each other to build the house. They will do it for free, Faa lang fon will only pay for the traveling and food. We also plan to build a office for Faa lang fon, where it is possible for Be to stay while he is there, a house where pepole from the mountain can stay when they goes to the doctor in the city, have to run errands there etc, a house where volunteers can stay while they teaching english and computers for the children, a museum and a shop where the Kareen people can sell their work. We don't have much money so we will do it step by step.
We are very thankful to our sponsor, Agape-brud who gave us money to buy this site.
Do you want to support this work please contact us on annestorsteinhaug@gmail.com
Her kommer noen bilder fra tomten som etter planen skal bli et senter for Karenfolket i byen Khun Yuam. Den er på nesten 6 rai (1 rai er 1600 sqm). Den første bygningen vi vil bygge er et skoleinternat hvor fattige barn fra fjellet kan bo mens de går på ungdomskole og vidergående skole der. Internatet vil bli bygget av bambus og jord og det skal bygges på dugnad av de lokale. Vi håper vi snart kan tilby 40 barn en plass å bo mens de går på skole. Vi ønsker også å bygge et kontor der for Faa lang fon, hvor Be kan overnatte når han er der, et hus hvor menneskene fra fjellene kan overnatte når de er i byen for å gå til lege eller har andre ærend i byen, et hus hvor voluntører som ønsker å jobbe for Faa lang fon kan bo i (undevise barn på internatet i engelsk og data), et museum og en butikk hvor de kan selge ting de lager. Vi har ikke mye penger så vi vil gjøre litt om litt.
Vi er veldig takknemlige for at vår sponsor Agape- brud gav oss penger så vi kunne kjøpe denne tomten.
Ønsker du å støtte dette arbeidet så ta kontakt med oss på annestorsteinhaug@gmail.com eller sett inn penger på kontoen vår i Skandiabanken. Kontonummer: 972 2134 7580
This is a picture of the site. They made a small road on it.
Here they started to make bricks out of mud.
Here they prepare to make mud into bricks.
This is the first building on the site, a place where the workers can stay when they work at the site. Later it will be the place for the children to eat.
This girl missed her father so much, so she came to the site and stayed there for some days.
They have to bring all the wood and bamboo from the mountains. They don't sell any wood in the city.
The boarding school is finished and eight children have moved into the house. Seven of them have started on secondary school and one in high school. Two adults look after them.
Nine children from Huay Hwai have now finished primary school and will move to Khun Yuam and Faa lang fon's boarding school this month. This 9 children are the first one ever to finish primary school in Huay Hwai (because the school there is only six years) and they are the first ones who will stay in Faa lang fon's boarding school as well. They are all very excited about leaving their village, living away from the parents and starting on a new school. Their parents will probably miss them a lot, but when we asked them about how they felt they all said the same; they were so happy for this good opportunity to get an education for their children. Last month we visited six of the students (the three other were not at home) to see how they live and to get to know them a little bit letter.
Here is a picture of the boarding school. After we took this picture they finished the roof. The house contains two bedrooms, one for boys and one for girls, two bathrooms and two toilets. Later we plan to build one more house, to separate the boys and girls.
A place to do the dishes.
The water tanks. They spend quite some money and time to get water enough to the site. Now its working well.
The kitchen.
A house which contain a room for the adult to sleep (the one who will look after the children), a kitchen and a place for the children to eat. Later they will make a cement floor there.
A place to relax. In the background you can see where they grow vegetables.
In May starts a new school semester here in Thailand. Many children from the mountains need scholarships. Do you want to help? At the moment 18 tenagers get scolarships from Faa lang fon. Next semester Faa lang fon hope to be able to help all inn all 50 tenagers (including the children who will stay in the new boarding...school in Khun Yuam). To reach this goal they need many more supporters. It costs 150 Norwegian kroner (around 800 bath) to support one child in secondary and high school in one month. To support an university student costs around 300 Norwegian kroner a month.
The teacher who teach the children in the village Huay Hwai, Kruu Jigsaw, got a little baby girl 14. February. Congratulations!
Site/tomt
This is a picture of the site. They made a small road on it.
Here they started to make bricks out of mud.
Here they prepare to make mud into bricks.
This is the first building on the site, a place where the workers can stay when they work at the site. Later it will be the place for the children to eat.
This girl missed her father so much, so she came to the site and stayed there for some days.
They have to bring all the wood and bamboo from the mountains. They don't sell any wood in the city.
Tusen takk til dere som har vært med å gi penger til operasjon av jenta. Vi har nå fått inn de pengene vi trenger til operasjonen. Hun er allerede registrert på Chulalongkorn sykehus og vil bli operert så snart Be er ferdig med å bygge skoleinternatet i Khun Yuam. (Det må bli ferdig før regntiden starter, så de har litt press på seg). Følg med her på bloggen.
