{"id":120,"date":"2014-09-14T23:23:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T23:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coloraid.org\/?p=120"},"modified":"2015-09-26T18:16:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T18:16:15","slug":"continuing-thailand-girls-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coloraid.org\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Girls Educational Scholarships- Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"

January 2015<\/p>\n

We are very pleased to announce that one of our past Project Managers, Bill Taylor, has created his own non-profit the SE Asia Childrens Foundation. The Thailand Girls Scholarship has been greatly expanded in the last year.\u00a0\u00a0If you are interested in supporting girl\u2019s education in Thailand please visit http:\/\/asiachildrensfoundation.org\/<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

September 2014<\/p>\n

This was another exciting year for our Thailand, Hill Tribe Girls Scholarship Project.\u00a0\u00a0 Our project assists the girls with tuition, uniforms and transportation to school to enable them to finish their 10th<\/sup>, 11th<\/sup> and 12th<\/sup> grades. In several instances, these girls will be the first in their families to complete High School. While doing this, they are able to remain in their family home, stay in their culture and continue as part of their community.<\/p>\n

Hill Tribe girls with only a 9th<\/sup> grade education make very meager wages in difficult, low paying jobs, working long hours. In many cases as little as 60 baht a day (less than $2.00).\u00a0\u00a0 With the skills they learn, they should be able to find employment paying several times that, enough to help their families and themselves after graduation.<\/p>\n

Several of these girls are not recognized as Thai citizens, though they were born in Thailand and their parents may have been born here also.\u00a0\u00a0 Their travel is restricted to their own \u2018local area\u2019, and they have never been out of it.<\/p>\n

This year, we awarded out 11th<\/sup>, 12th<\/sup> and 13th<\/sup> scholarship. It was our 9th<\/sup> and 10 scholarship for graduates (9th<\/sup> grade) of the RoMite school and our 2nd<\/sup> scholarship to a young girl heading to University.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve had our first graduate of one of our \u2018scholarship girls\u2019 (a one year scholarship that we awarded last year). She is now enrolled in Chiang Mai University. She is an exceptionally talented student enrolled in their \u2018teacher training\u2019 program. Our project is assisting her with her tuition.\u00a0\u00a0 She is our 2nd<\/sup> University student (4 year scholarship).<\/p>\n

This March three more of our girls should be graduating from High School and I am hopeful that we will be able to help at least one of them with their University costs.<\/p>\n

The 2 new High School awards went to two very exception young girls with G.P.A.s of over 3.3.\u00a0\u00a0 Each year I am so proud of the quality of the girls that receive our awards. We have now awarded scholarships to girls from the Akha, Karen Hmong, Thai Yi (Shan) and Lisu Hill Tribes.\u00a0\u00a0 As there are over 600 Hill Tribe students that attend this school, I am hopeful that we can expand this project to assist more students. The costs are very low and the changes that this project makes for these girls are enormous.<\/p>\n

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2012 – C.O.L.O.R.\u00a0has\u00a0girl\u2019s educational scholarships in Thailand. Project Manager, Gary Van Haneghan handed out 3 year scholarships to 4 girls. The funds will enable them to complete their high school educations; each will be the first in their family to graduate. Gary wrote, \u201cIt was a very touching moment when one father told me, \u201cI think my daughter is very smart, but without this help, I am just a poor farmer, and wouldn\u2019t be able to send my daughter to school\u201d and he wrote of one of the girls at the ceremony, she was \u201ccrying from the joy of being able to ‘go on’ to school\u201d. This is person to person philanthropy at its best! This project is expected to grow, if you are interested in supporting this effort you can donate at www. ColorAid.org and specify your donation go to the Thailand Girls Scholarship Fund.<\/p>\n

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