Blankets for Thailand

Another iEARN project, Clickety, Click, Let's Knit, resulted in blankets being made out of the scarves which had been knitted by students and communities around the world. Over 100 of these blankets were given to The First Peoples' Project to send to the Karen students in Thailand.

Siriluck has written of her visit to the schools, delivering supplies and blankets.
 
 
I got the support from the director and staff of Umphang Hospital as usual. In the hospital four wheeler with a driver and 2 nurses, we first went to Samakkee Witthaya School. We gave the school some copies of "The Meeting Place", calendars, a big box of blankets, sport equipment and canned tuna. (We gave the 3 schools the same things but some may get more blankets than others depending on the need) We showed the students the art work and we asked to meet the boy who drew the picture which was selected to put in the calendar. He completed the compulsory gr.6 and was helping his parents in the corn field. We went to see him there and gave him a calendar and a blanket as a reward for his talent. 
Then we went to Umphangkee school . A few dads were at school preparing late lunch for us. They made us spicy chicken curry with pumpkin and chicken soup. I felt a bit guilty to take the small food they have. But they were very excited and thankful for the blankets and the sport equipment and canned food (tuna) that we gave them. Do you remember once I talked about the possibility to give them some kind of playground equipment? It is not possible at the moment so I got some soccer balls, valley balls, jumping ropes, boxing gloves etc. for them instead. Interestingly, they love boxing gloves. They put them on and started the game immediately. They asked about the head guards (which I overlooked) so I said "Next time". Some equipment they didn't know how to play so we had to show them. I had a chance to be a school girl once again.
The last school I visited on the next day is the first school which joined our project, Baan Nu-Se-Plo school. I gave this school 3 boxes of blankets because of the dormitory. The good news for this school is that 2 small buildings are under construction to be used as new dormitories (one for boys and one for girls). You will see them either in the video or photos. The interesting information is that out of the around -200 - students, 40 of them got sick with malaria last year. On the way back from the school we had to take 1 student and 1 monk who got malaria to the hospital. The Karen teacher at the school said he got malaria 3 times last year.
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