Help the kids of Ban Huai Kob
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OUR ETHOS
At TruTravels we believe that the travel industry has the potential to change the world for the better. Our vision is to unite people, companies and charities from all over the world, with the common goal of reducing the current global equality divide, whilst showing our travellers the most amazing, life-changing experiences during their time with us.
OUR XMAS MISSION
This year for our main xmas event, we will be spreading some good karma and festive cheer in a very remote and poor area of Thailand, Ban Prarai Nok, a small village a couple of hours from Sangklaburi in Kanchanaburi province.
The area is very low income with most people farming or labouring for around 5000 THB a month (about 120 pounds) or less. Being near the border, the village is a mix of several ethnic groups: Thai, Mon, Karen, Burmese and Laotian.
Ban Huai Kob School is the main school in the village and is currently providing an education to 240 children between the ages of 4 and 12 with only 9 teachers and very little funding from the government. Ban Prarai Nok (where we are going) is a smaller branch of the school with just 60 kids and 5 teachers and as such receives only a fraction of the government funding available which is nowhere near enough.
Although the school is also in some ways at the center of the community, the locals of the area can not afford to pay tuition fees or fund the school and as a result it is severely lacking basic educational equipment, falling into disrepair, and in desperate need of funding, maintenance and equipment. The school is not even connected to mains electricity, it uses a solar cell which is no longer working.
Around 50 of the Tru Fam will be heading to the village in December to volunteer in the school, do some educational and fun stuff with the kids, help with building and decorating (DIY projects) and most importantly raise funds to help the school feed and educate the kids, hire more teachers, buy much needed educational equipment and make improvements to school buildings and facilities.
TruTravels will obviously be donating as well as incurring the expense of getting 50 of us up there to volunteer and deliver cash and supplies. However we have also set our team the task of raising funds for the cause in the run up to the event. Some of us will be taking part in the Koh Phangan 10k run the day before we head to BKK, Sammy is even threatening to do a Muay Thai fight to raise sponsorship money and who knows what other weird and wonderful fundraising ideas the rest of the crew will come up with.
We will also be asking our team to bring old clothes, sports equipment etc that they no longer need to give to the kids and their families. As well as raising cash for food, paint, building materials, educational equipment and salaries for new teachers, we want to have enough to be able to stop the Tru bus on the way up there to buy loads of small xmas presents for the kids.
The more we raise, the more we can do to help raise the quality of education for the kids and the quality of life for their families for generations to come. If you would like to help then please go to … to donate whatever you can, if you would like to donate to any specific fundraising page that our team have set up (it all goes to the same cause), you can find them here. Even small amounts can make a difference and if you are coming on tour with us in the next couple of months feel free to bring small gifts like pens, sports equipment, small games/toys etc… They will be much appreciated.
At TruTravels we believe that the travel industry has the potential to change the world for the better. Our vision is to unite people, companies and charities from all over the world, with the common goal of reducing the current global equality divide, whilst showing our travellers the most amazing, life-changing experiences during their time with us.
OUR XMAS MISSION
This year for our main xmas event, we will be spreading some good karma and festive cheer in a very remote and poor area of Thailand, Ban Prarai Nok, a small village a couple of hours from Sangklaburi in Kanchanaburi province.
The area is very low income with most people farming or labouring for around 5000 THB a month (about 120 pounds) or less. Being near the border, the village is a mix of several ethnic groups: Thai, Mon, Karen, Burmese and Laotian.
Ban Huai Kob School is the main school in the village and is currently providing an education to 240 children between the ages of 4 and 12 with only 9 teachers and very little funding from the government. Ban Prarai Nok (where we are going) is a smaller branch of the school with just 60 kids and 5 teachers and as such receives only a fraction of the government funding available which is nowhere near enough.
Although the school is also in some ways at the center of the community, the locals of the area can not afford to pay tuition fees or fund the school and as a result it is severely lacking basic educational equipment, falling into disrepair, and in desperate need of funding, maintenance and equipment. The school is not even connected to mains electricity, it uses a solar cell which is no longer working.
Around 50 of the Tru Fam will be heading to the village in December to volunteer in the school, do some educational and fun stuff with the kids, help with building and decorating (DIY projects) and most importantly raise funds to help the school feed and educate the kids, hire more teachers, buy much needed educational equipment and make improvements to school buildings and facilities.
TruTravels will obviously be donating as well as incurring the expense of getting 50 of us up there to volunteer and deliver cash and supplies. However we have also set our team the task of raising funds for the cause in the run up to the event. Some of us will be taking part in the Koh Phangan 10k run the day before we head to BKK, Sammy is even threatening to do a Muay Thai fight to raise sponsorship money and who knows what other weird and wonderful fundraising ideas the rest of the crew will come up with.
We will also be asking our team to bring old clothes, sports equipment etc that they no longer need to give to the kids and their families. As well as raising cash for food, paint, building materials, educational equipment and salaries for new teachers, we want to have enough to be able to stop the Tru bus on the way up there to buy loads of small xmas presents for the kids.
The more we raise, the more we can do to help raise the quality of education for the kids and the quality of life for their families for generations to come. If you would like to help then please go to … to donate whatever you can, if you would like to donate to any specific fundraising page that our team have set up (it all goes to the same cause), you can find them here. Even small amounts can make a difference and if you are coming on tour with us in the next couple of months feel free to bring small gifts like pens, sports equipment, small games/toys etc… They will be much appreciated.
Fundraising team: TruTravels (5)
Charlie Ransom
Organizer
Raised £140 from 3 donations
Justin Saunders
Team member
Raised £66 from 1 donation
Sammy Donoghue
Team member
Raised £30 from 2 donations
Alanna Miller
Team member
Raised £10 from 1 donation
Amer Asum
Team member
This team raised £2,059 from 54 other donations.
