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LIST OF CHARITIES AND WORTHY CAUSES
Introduction.
Prior to making out a cheque for a donation to any of the listed causes, we suggest you get in touch with the named contact person to ensure that your cheque is made out in the right name.
When emailing or faxing us to submit you entry to the competition, you must pledge the amount to be donated, and the name of the charity or cause to whom you are making the donation.
The actual cheque must then be handed in to the Maekok River Village Resort office when you arrive for the competition so that the donations may be reconciled with the amounts pledged.
In addition you must provide details of exactly who is making the donation. In the case of an individual or individuals, just a name is fine. In the case of a company, the name, a brief description of the company’s business, a scanned logo, and links to the company web site (if they have one).
Note* If the company donating funds does not have a web site, www.Thailand-YellowPages.com will provide one free of charge. Contact us for further details.
- The Foundation for Slum Child Care
- needs to ensure its Milk Fund can continue to
provide quality care for babies and children.
Project : The Foundation for Slum Child Care (The Milk and Supplementary Food Fund)
Contact : Srilada Katewong.
Address : 100/771-775,Klong Toey Block 6, Art-Narong Road, Bangkok 10110.
Tel: 2490953-4 Fax: 249-2956
- The Save Thai Birds for Kids Project helps
disabled children enjoy bird-watching.
Project : Save Thai Birds for Kids Project.
Contact : Arunlak Seemapan.
Address : The Research and Development Institute, Ramkhamhaeng University.
Tel/Fax : 319-2059
- The Nature Conservancy Club gives an opportunity
for blind children to enjoy camping in the forest.
Project : The Nature Conservancy Club.
Contact : Thammarat Sookpinij.
Tel : 929-7392, Pager : 1188-4400296.
- YWCA Pak Kret volunteers regularly visit
children at Baan Rachavadee Home for the Mentally Handicapped to give
them love and care.
Contact : Boonchuan Hongskrai or saisom sinhaseni.
Address : 99/19 Chaeng Wattana Road, Pak Kret, Nonthaburi 11120.
- Rainbow House is a rehabilitation centre
for disabled children. It also handles adoption cases.
Project : The Christian Care Foundation for Children with Disabilities.
Contact : Wasan Saenwian, Director.
Address : PO Box 47, Pak Kret, Nonthaburi 11120.
Tel. 584-6966, 9609107. Fax 584-6966. Email : ccdbkk@ksc.th.com
- Baan Unrak or Home of Happiness
gives ethnic Karen children in Sangkhla Buri food shelter and hope of
a better future.
Group : Neo Humanist Foundation.
Contact : Ms Donata Dolci or Didi.
Address : Baan Unrak, 36 Moo 3, Nonglu, Sangkhla Buri, Kanchanaburi 71240.
Tel/Fax: 034-595428.
- The Human Development Centre’s
legal aid centre helps street children get access to justice.
Project : Legal Aid Clinic.
Contact : Father Joe Maier
Address : Human Development Centre, 3757/15 Sukhumvit Road, Soi 40 Phra Khanong, Klong Toey, Bangkok, 10110.
Tel. 392-7981, 381-1821 or Khun Saran at 671-7025. Fax: 391-4968. Email : frjoehdc@loxinfo.co.th
- Baan Huay Moh Orphanage
gives shelter and free education to poor hill tribe children.
Project : Baan Huay Moh Orphanage.
Contact : Fr Atthapol sae Thien
Address : c/o Ban Huay Moh Church, Huay Moh village, Mae Fa Luang district, Chiang Rai.
- Teacher Yupa Tibwongse believes literacy
in Thai is the first step to helping hilltribe children avoid exploitation.
Organisation : Baan Ke Ra Kee Child Development Centre.
Contact : Yupa Tibwongse.
Address : Ban Ke Ra Kee, Moo 3, Tambon Mae song, Tha Song Yang District, Tak province.
- An innovative course in Chiang Mai has
American students meeting disadvantaged people in Thailand so they can
understand how different worlds impact each other.
Project : The Kalamazoo College Sustainable Development Studies.
Address : Faculty of Economics, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, 50002
Tel. 053-942189, Fax. 053-942152, Email: sdsthai@pobox.com
Web site: http:/www.kzoo.edu/cip.thailand
- Teacher Mookda Intasan has helped more
than 200 rural children get an education.
Organisation: Home for Quality of Life Development Project.
Contact : Mookda Intasan.
Address: 182 Moo 5, Baan Pin Sub-district, Dok Kham Tai district, Phayao 56120.
- The Buddha Kaset Foundation’ s
temple school in Chiang Mai is giving poor hilltribe teenagers free
education.
Organisation : Buddha Kaset Foundation.
Contact : Headmaster Passakorn Kundej.
Address : buddha Dharma Nong Hoh Temple, Klong Chon Prathan Road Tambon Chang puek, Muang district, Chiang Mai, 50302.
Tel. 053-414096.
- Thanks to St Theresa’s Boarding Centre,
children living in the hills in Nan can attend school regularly without
having to travel massive distances.
Project : St Theresa’s Boarding Centre.
Contact : Father Wirach Amonpattana, Redemptorists of Thailand. PO Box 26, Amphur Muang, Nan Province 55000, Thailand
Tel. 054-774161
- A monk in Chiang Mai’ s
Hod district gives free education to hill tribe children.
Organisation : Wat Mae Paa Phai.
Address : Baan Mae Paa Phai, Moo 5, Tambon Na Kor Ruea, Hod district, Chiang Mai.
- The Khru Thim Bun-ing Foundation supports
the education of Isan children and lends money to poor people to establish
farms rather than migrate to Bangkok for work.
Project : The Khru Thim Bun-ing Foundation.
Contact : Penporn tasiri or Kiattisak Pramual.
Address : 74 Moo 8, Chor Paka Sub-district, Chamni District, Buri Ram 31110.
- Klong Toey Slum Children need support
to continue their education.
Organisation : Duang Preteep Foundation.
Contact : Wasana Sanitmuenwai.
Address : Sponsorship section, 34, Lock6, Art Narong Road, Klong Toey, Bangkok 10110.
Tel. 249-3553, 249-4880, 249-8842 and 671-4045-8.
Fax. 249-5254.
- Northern Network for Rural Development (NorthNet),
an NGO which works in a variety of areas, including forestry, rural
development, and organic farming.
Tel. 053-380734.
- The Health Project for Tribal People,an indigenous
tribal NGO, which develops culturally and linguistically appropriate
media for teaching tribal people about HIV/Aids.They also run an Aids
hospice for women and children with no family.
Tel. 053-244569.
- Women Against Aids, a Thai NGO working with children
and sdults affected by HIV/Aids in Sanpatong communities of Chiang Mai.
Tel. 053-824925.
- The Centre for Urban Tribal Youth, a project working
with tribal street kids in Chiang Mai. The centre is a unit of the Inter
Mountain Peoples Education and Culture in Thailand Association (IMPECT).
Tel. 053-492544.
- Foundation for Education and Development of Rural
Areas (FEDRA), a Thai NGO promoting integrated farming and rural development
in the Mae Tang/Mae Rim area of Chiang Mai.
Tel. 053-297015.
- McKean Rehabilitation Centre, formerly a lepers’colony.
The centre’s activities now focus on community-based care for the disabled,
including training in organic and integrated farming methods.
Tel. 053-277049.
- The Duang Prateep Foundation, an NGO working in
the Klong Toey slums in Bangkok on issues such as children’s education,
slum dwellers’ rights and HIV/Aids.
Tel. 249-3553.
- The Project for Ecological Recovery, an NGO working
on environmental issues in Thailand and Southeast Asia.
Tel. 02-691 0718-20.
- A group of people with HIV and Aids are
working to support others with the deadly virus and spreading the safe
sex message.
Organisation : Pearl S. Buck International (Thailand)
Contact : Yowalak (Thiarachow) Tatichotioan.
Address: 6th Floor, Interlife John Hancock Bldg., 364/30 Sri Ayudhaya Road, Ratchathewi, Bangkok 10400.
Tel. 642-6357-8, Fax. 642-6359.
- A special training course is helping disabled
people learn the skills of stone carving.
Organisation : Nangrong Industrial and Community Education College.
Contact : Director Surasak Arporntawan.
Address : Nangrong Industrial and Community Education college, Sangkakaj Prachanusorn Road, Tambon Nangrong, nangrong district, Buri Ram 31110.
Tel/Fax. 044-632008.
- The Nakhon Prathom Disabled Club helps
the disabled people in the province get access to much-needed assistance
available from state welfare programmes.
Organisation : Nakhon Prathom Disabled Club.
Contact: Teerawat Sripathomsawad (president)
Address: 23/15 Moo 1, Tambon Tha Talad, Sam pran district, nakhon Pathom 73110.
- The Committee for Natural and Environmental
Conservation of 16 institutes (CNEC) links university students to
conservation campaigns.
Organisation : Committee for Natural and Environmental Conservation of 16 Institutes (CNEC)
Contact : Naruemol Paiboonsithikul.
Address : 2nd Floor, Student Activities Building, Thammasat University, Tha Phra Chan Campus, Bangkok 10200.
Tel. 223-2858. Fax 221-6111 ext 4130.
- TREE or Technology for Rural and Ecological
Enrichment encourages natural farming methods among rice farmers.
Organisation : the organisation was recently registered with the Thai authorities under the name Moonlanithi Kao-kwan (The Kao-Kwan Foundation).
Address : 21 Nane-kaew Road, Soi 2 Tharahat Sub-district, Muang District, Suphan Buri 72000.
Tel. 035-500803. Fax. 035-521883.
- The Forest Conservation Community Funds
helps poor farmers cope with chronic drought and plagues.
Organisation : The Forest Conservation Community Fund.
Address : 77/1 Moo 5, Tambon Suthep, Muang district, Chiang Mai province 50200.
- The Nong Yah Nang Temple in Uthai Thani
province offers free traditional healing methods to people suffering
from paralysis.
Organisation : Nong Yah Nang Temple.
Address : Baan Nong Yah Nang, tambon Nong Phai Ban, Muang district, Uthai Thani.
Contact : Phra Khru Uppakara pattanakij.
- Wat Rai Khing Hospital gives free eye surgery
to needy people in rural Thailand.
Organisation: Mettapracharak (Wat Rai Khing) Hospital.
Contact: Dr Pannet pangputhipong.
Address : 52 Moo 2, Tambon Rai Khing, Sam Phran district, Nakhon Pathom province, 73210.
Tel. 034-321983-5,321244,225-417-20.
Fax. 034-321243.
- Every year about 5,000 Thai children are born with
heart defects. Without surgery they will die or be disabled. The
paediatric Cardiac Surgery Foundation is trying to help.
Project : Paediatric Cardiac Surgery Foundation.
Contact : Dr Pirapat Mokarapong.
Address : Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, Ratchawithi Hospital, Ratchawithi Road, Ratchathewi, Bangkok 10400.
Tel/Fax. 247-1027-8.
- The Thai Industrialist Development Forum
gives artificial legs to needy patients.
Organisation : The Thai Industrialist Development Forum.
Contact : Woothiwong Toatong.
Address : 110/108 Dkachai-Bangbon Road, Bangkhuntien, Bangkok 10150.
Tel. 899-6372-5, 4160308-9. Fax. 8996371
- The Bone Marrow Transplant Club helps bone
marror patients get a life-saving operation.
Name: Bone marrow Transplant Club (BMC).
Address: Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, Department of medicine Faculty of medicine, Chulalongkorn university.
Tel. 632-1682 and 632-2600.
- Providing quality care for chronically-ill children
in times of economic crisis is Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital’
s Department of Paediatics.
Project : Pan Nam Jai Hai Nong.
Contact : Associate Profesor Jarungchit Ngamphaiboon.
Address : The Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University. Phaya Thai Road, pathum Wan, Bangkok 10330.
Tel. 252-8181-9 ext 3332.
- Chuleemart Phanont is a teacher and mother
to hundreds of poor children.
Organisation : Education for Children Project.
Address : 139 Moo 5, Baan yakha, Muangpol sub district, Muang, khon Kaen 40120.
Tel. 043-339056.
- Dr Therdchai Jivacate makes free artificial
legs for the disabled.
Organisation : The Prosthesis Foundation.
Address : Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai 50200.
Tel. 053-219250-1
- Tepnimit Sripunya is a forest chief who
saves trees and improves the living conditions of villagers.
Address : Bung Kla District, nong Khai.
Tel. 042-243441, 01-954-9059.
- The Khon Dee Sri Sangkhom Award honours
rural community leaders for their initiatives. The 1999 awardees are
Mr Phak Treetawan, a local accountant, for bringing a new accounting
system into his savings group at Ban Keereewong in Nakhon Si Thammarat:
Mr Kwanchai Raksaphan for introducing new agricultural technology into
his community in Chachoeng Sao; Mr Thongkham jamsai for setting up a
savings group in Ban Khok Charoen in Buriram; and Mr Saman Khai-art
for saving the Nan River from pollution
Organisation: Village Foundation.
Address : 230/52 Vibhavadi Rangsit Si 2, DinDaeng Bangkok 10320.
Tel. 2765635, 2753953, 2762172. Fax. 2762171.
- Slum leaders believe unity can help the
urban poor improve their standard of living.
Organisation : Duang prateep Foundation.
Address : Lock 6, Art Narong Road, Klong Toey, Bangkok 10110.
Contact: Kanokporn Chotivisit
- The Ngao Community Art Centre helps rural
children earn a living by developing their artistic skills.
Organisation : Ngao Community Art Centre.
Contact : kham-ai Dejduangta.
Address : Ngao Community Art Centre, 33 Moo 9, Ban Khoi, Tambon Ban Rong, Ngao district, Lampang, 52110.
- The Mirror Art Group serves as a bridge
for volunteers wanting to use education and art to work with hill tribe
children.
Organisation : Mirror Art Group.
Contact : Sombat boon-ngam-anong.
Address : 106 Moo 1, Ban Huay Khom, mae Yao sub-district, Muang district, Chiang Rai.
Tel/Fax. 053-600554.
Email : mirrorgroup@thebangkok.com
Web site: www.thebangkok.com
- Youngsters are
showing how society can benefit from independent radio.
Organisation : The Youth Centre for the Promotion of Life Services and Environmental Awareness (YPLE).
Contact : sakunee Kiatiwong-vanich and Chardchai Chuenraan.
Address : 36/23-24 Moo 2 Ramintra 24, Anusawaree, Bang Khen, Bangkok 10220.
Tel. 512-2770, Fax. 512-2770
- A group of elderly residents at the Thammaprakorn
Home for the Aged in Chiang Mai do volunteer work with abandoned
children and needy old folks.
Organisation : Thammaprakorn Home for the Aged.
Contact : Uttraporn Bunnag.
Address : 1 Moonmuang Road, Phrasing sub-district, Muang District, Chiang Mai 50200.
Tel. 053-278573.
- Toys help bridge the generation gap between
youngsters and older people in Chiang Rai province.
Project : The Group for the Development of Older people.
Contact : Weerapong Kangwanawakul.
Address : 268 Moo 3, Padaad sub-district, Mae Suay district, Chiang Rai 57180.
Tel. 053-708070.
- The Senior Group at Tng Khaotok Temple
in Chiang Mai’s San Sai district is short of money to run its community
programmes.
Organisation : The Senior Group (Wat Tung Khaotok).
Contact : Phra Khru Sompong Panyavaro.
Address : Wat Tung Khaotok, Moo 4, Tambon Nongyaeng, Sansai District, Chiang Mai.
Tel. 01-4728874
- The Emergency Home gives shelter to victims
of domestic violence and distressed women and children.
Organisation : The Emergency Home and Relidf Fnd for Women and Children in Distress, a unit of the Association for the Promotion of the Status of women.
Address : 50/1 Decha Tungkha Road, Si kan sub-district, Don Muang district, Bangkok 10210.
Tel. 929-2222, 929-2301-10. Fax. 929-2300.
Email. We-train@linethai.co.th
- Face , an NGO,
tries to protect Thai children against paedophiles.
Organisation: coalition to Fight Against Child Exploitation.
Contact : Sudarat Sereewat.
Address ; PO Box 178, Kong Chan, Bangkok 10240.
- The Foundation for Lanna Artists produces grassroots
theatre in a bid to promote social change.
Organisation : Foundation for Lanna Artists.
Contact : Manit Archawong.
Address: 87 Ekamai Soi 3, Sukhumvit 63, Wattana district, Bangkok 10110.
Tel/Fax. 711-5727.
- The Soon Kerd Mai Centre helps youngsters
kick their drug habits.
Organisation : Rebirth Therapeutic community Centre (Soon Kerd Mai).
Contact : Father Thien Chi Nguyen.
Address : 96 Moo 4, Chom Bung district, Ratchaburi 70150.
Tel. 032-261039-40, Fax. 032-261039.
- The Mae Kok Farm project helps people from
the same village kick their drug habits and offers training.
Organisation : Mae Kok Farm project.
Contact : Pipat Chaisurin.
Address : (Farm) Baan Phasert Moo 6 Tambon Doi Hang, Amphur Muang, Chiang Rai 57000.
(Office) 67/1 Moo 1 Tambon San Sai, Amphur Muang, Chiang Rai.
Tel/Fax. 053-700408,674103, 01-9604367.
- The Post Library Project is run
by a private library owner who wants his books to reach more readers.
Organisation : The Post Library Project.
Contact : Lek Pongsamakthai.
Address: 1505 Nakhon Sawan Road, Muang District, Maha Sarakham 44000.
- For the last 35 years a Temple in Lop Buri
has provided sanctuary for abandoned animals.
Organisation : Samnak Song Ongsajjadharma
Contact : Phra Vichai Chantasaro.
Tel. 01-9872803.
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