|
 SUNSHINE
ACTION
 耀陽行動
THAILAND Charity Tour
亞洲愛心泰國行
 Mae Sot 美索
 
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/SunshineAction
852-6888
4028 sunshine@sunshine-action.org
|
|
July 2014, nine SUNSHINE ACTION
volunteers went to Mae Sot, Thailand donating over
75 tones
of rice, dry food, bricks, cements, construction
materials, basic need materials, stationery and sponsoring
3 life-saving
surgeries for the heart disease patients, including the
following organizations: |
- Mao Tao Clinic
- BCMF Burmese Children Medical Fund
- Eyes to Burma
- KKB Kwe Kha Baung Migrant School
Mae Sot –
美索，位於泰國西北面，離清邁車程約7小時，是一個住了120,000人口的城鎮，邊界與緬甸接壤，估計現時大約有60-70%的人口是來自緬甸的難民。
|
難民的工作及住宿環境
由於他們的國籍未被泰國政府承認，而且這些難民已逃離緬甸多年，已不知道自己家鄉是否存在，他們的唯一生存方法便是在當地做黑工，替那裡大約200多間的紡織廠、食品加工廠等工作，薪金只取得當地最低工資的三分之一，即約港幣$16。沒有工作技能的，便只能住在垃圾山，靠每天執垃圾回收維生，由於收入極之微薄，很多時家中只要能走路的兒童，都需要出動執垃圾，完全沒有上學的機會。
|
|
'耀陽行動'
於當地展開的工作
為住於垃圾山的的100戶家庭提供糧食，當中我們更為營養不良的兒童提供營養奶粉及飲品，希望他們更易吸收營養。同時我們捐出頭燈、電筒、電池及水靴，方便他們夜間於垃圾山「尋寶」，而肥皂及洗衣粉能讓他們保持個人清潔，減少生病。
852-6888
4028sunshine@sunshine-action.org
**Donation over HKD 100 is tax-deductible in Hong Kong under IRD-No. 91/10271***
捐款HK$100元或以上，可獲香港退稅收據.
當地教育情況
基於緬甸難民並沒有泰國國籍，他們的兒童並不能享有泰國的教育，取而代之當地有一些辦學的慈善機構在當地設立全日制的學校，提供由小學至高中課程。因難民家庭只有微薄收入，所以辦學的慈善機構是以補貼形式及全日制辦學，提供午飯。受到近年環球經濟不景氣，這些學校已面對長期財政壓力，例如我們捐錢給其中一間學校，他們的老師已經有三個多月沒有出糧，但他們仍樂意繼續與學校共渡難關。
現時學生完成高中課程後，只可函接少數緬甸的大學，而不能升讀泰國的大學。
852-6888
4028sunshine@sunshine-action.org
Students dormitory
當地醫療情況
由於難民沒有泰國戶籍，若他們使用泰國政府開設的醫院，需要仍需付很高的醫療費用，幸好當地的慈善團體已提供全面、低廉、甚至免費的醫療服務。但對於一些嚴重的病例，例如身體嚴重創傷，並需要轉介到清邁醫院，由於需付額外的醫療及運送病人的費用
(來回約7,500泰珠，約港幣$2,000元正)，很視乎外間有沒有善心人願意承擔支出。
MAO TAO CLINIC,
founded by Dr. Cynthia Maung, herself
a displaced person forced to flee her homeland in 1988, has
worked tirelessly for over 20 years, providing critical
healthcare to the people of Burma. The Clinic’s facilities and
activities continue to grow. Currently, between 400 -500 people
on average come to the clinic each day, and there is a staff of
about 700 providing comprehensive health services and child
protection services. Total caseload exceeds 115,000 cases
annually with a client number of over 75,000 per year
-
為當地一些學校支付部份老師及員工的工資，以支持學校的正常運作
 
其他計劃
***需視乎捐款情況***
-
為垃圾山居民提供太陽能燈用作家居照明
-
每月為垃圾山居民提供部份糧食支援，例如白米及奶粉
-
以一對一方式贊助病人到清邁醫院手術的費用，上限為港幣30,000元正及只限一次性治療
Mae Sot
is located in the northwest of Thailand on the border with
Myanmar, about 700km from Chiang Mai (Thailand). Among the
population of 120,000, around 60-70% are Burmese refugees.
852-6888
4028sunshine@sunshine-action.org
Life of refugees
Having escaped Burma several
decades ago, these refugees are still not entitled to Thai
nationality and so cannot enjoy the same rights, such as the
statutory-minimum day wage. Some turn to illegal work in textile
and food factories in return for only HK$16 per day, or a third
of what their Thai counterparts earn. For others with no skills,
the only place they can live is on a trash mountain where they
eke out a meagre living by picking up and selling recyclable
items. They live in extremely harsh conditions and schooling for
their children is impossible.
**Donation over HKD 100 is tax-deductible in Hong Kong under IRD-No. 91/10271***
捐款HK$100元或以上，可獲香港退稅收據.
'Living
on Landfill'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNSC1bF6-pg
Local education
Without Thai residency, they
cannot study in the local schools, but luckily some NGOs operate
full-time educational facilities for these refugee children,
from primary through secondary. In recent years, some such
institutions have faced financial crisis because of the global
economic downturn which severely affected overseas donations.
Lacking their only source of income, some teachers went unpaid
for many months but they were willing to continue in order to
tide over this crisis.
Kwe Ka
Buang school, the students in this
school is largely comprised of one of the ethnic minority
group-Karen, so it's a rare migrant school. We’ll see the living
& education condition, plus granting materials that are needed.
In the past, they are rural villagers who are suffering abuses
such as forced labor, systematic destruction of villagers and
crops, forced relocations, extortion, looting, arbitrary
detention, torture, sexual assault and summary executions.
Shower place
Students dormitory
Few universities in
Burma accept graduates from the high schools in Mae Sot and soon
none of these students will be able to continue their tertiary
education in Thailand.
Medical
system
Mae Sot seems to be a shadow of Burma.
Refugees have their own lifestyle, education and medical system,
with no help from the Thai government. Some NGOs provide
comprehensive, low-cost or free medical services to tackle basic
sickness, but if patients are severely hurt or suffer a serious
illness, they must be transferred to Chiang Mai Hospital under
the Thai government’s operation, but this happens only on the
condition that donors can sponsor the patient’s transfer (round
trip 7,500 baht or HK$2,000) and additional medical expenses...
such as the heart surgeries sponsored by SUNSHINE ACTION.
The Karen
are a group of Indo-Chinese tribes living
principally in Burma in the Indo-Chinese peninsula. The greater
part of this territory they occupy in connection with the other
peoples of the country, namely, the Burmese, Shan, Siamese, and
Chin. The only exclusively Karen country is the hilly region of
the Toungoo district and the Karenni subdivision.
Works of Sunshine Action in
Mae Sot
- Donate food to 100
families living on trash mountains, especially milk powder and
beverages for malnourished children. We also provide headlamps,
torches, cells and boots to protect them when working on rubbish
mountains at night, plus some personal cleaning products.
- Subsidise
salaries for teachers who have been unpaid for at least
8 months to guarantee these schools
continue operating.
 
Future plans
(Depends on future donation)
-
Purchase 100 solar
lamps for families on trash mountain.
-
Monthly food donation
to these families through providing basic food, e.g rice and
milk power
-
Subsidize severely
sick patients go to Chiang Mai Hospital with amount ceiling at
HK$30,000 per patient. One-off treatment only.
**Donation over HKD 100 is tax-deductible in Hong Kong under IRD-No. 91/10271***
捐款HK$100元或以上，可獲香港退稅收據.
Asia Volunteering Tour - 亞洲愛心泰國行 -
Nong Bua Lamphu THAILAND MAY 2011
e-mail:
sunshine@sunshine-action.org
/ Tel:
852-6888
4028
Beside the regular Sunshine Action food blessing bags to the
poor families/cases. Thailand is the second country where
Sunshine Action started the full year program, by arranging
volunteering visits by the young students to the elderly and
giving fruit tree saplings to poor families to get more food by
themselves or sell to market
This program is set with cooperation with
the St. Michael Archangel Catholic Church.
Each team will have 4 students and they will
provide monthly visits to the selected cases of poor elderly.
Every time, they will bring a package of food and other basic
need items.
The students must write a report about the
case's situation, general feeling about the activity, etc...
These reports will be reviewed regularly.
Plant the Planet ~ Thailand
In cooperation with the 4 following schools,
Sunshine Action planted over 600
Coconut & Mango trees:
- Prao village school
- Kabkaewbuaban Witedesuksa School
- Ban Pekfuy School
- Ban Khaw School
**Donation over HKD 100 is tax-deductible in Hong Kong under IRD-No. 91/10271***
捐款HK$100元或以上，可獲香港退稅收據.
According to UNITED NATIONS
ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAM:
Tropical forests cover 23%
of the Earth's land surface, but they are disappearing at a rate
of 4.6 millions hectares a year. Asia leads
loses with 2.2 millions hectares a year, Latin
America & the Caribbean together lose 1.9 millions
and Africa loses 470'000 hectares of rain
forest every year.
-
More than 5'000 things are made from
trees such as houses, furniture, pencils, utensils, fences,
books, newspapers, movie tickets even clothing & toothpaste.
-
Three-quarters of the world's people
rely on wood as their main source of energy.
-
Destruction of forests creates numerous
environmental catastrophes, including altering local
rainfall patterns, accelerating soil erosion, causing the
flooding of rivers, and threatening millions of species of
plants, animals and insects with extinction.
大氣中的二氧化碳、水蒸氣、臭氧都有吸收紅外線的性質，所以熱能被保留在大氣中再反射回地表使地球溫暖，科學家稱這種作用為「溫室效應」。但是，一旦大氣中的二氧化碳增加時，地球的氣溫便會越來越高，造成近年所謂全球暖化的危機。
樹木透過光合作用，吸收了大氣中的二氧化碳(最主要的溫室氣體)，並將之轉化為氧氣。
A single mature tree can absorb carbon
dioxide at a rate of 48 lbs./year and release enough oxygen back
into the atmosphere to support 2 human beings.
|
|
Asia Volunteering Tour 亞洲愛心泰國行
Nong Bua Lamphu THAILAND NOV 2010
|
01-DEC WORLD AIDS DAY -
Sunshine Action volunteers visited
Thailand and with cooperation of SVD & M.C. Thailand, the
mission cover food blessing bags for 220
Families Cases mainly with HIV/AIDS; 150
children with cloths, stationeries,
gifts, plus covering several adult & orphans at the Hospice.
We include not only the patients, but also
their families affected by poverty, lack of job and some
abandoned elderly group.
Meeting up with a group of poor villages in
the area.
PLANT the PLANET - THAILAND
植樹愛地球
With the help from student-volunteers of Phu
Phan Tong elementary School, we planted many Mango & Coconut
trees. Each Student will adopt a tree to take care and will
bring 2-3 fruit trees to be planted at their homes.
 
Thailand is the 5th country where we reached
our global program 'Plant the Planet'.
**Donation over HKD 100 is tax-deductible in Hong Kong under IRD-No. 91/10271***
捐款HK$100元或以上，可獲香港退稅收據.
|
|
Asia Volunteering Tour 亞洲愛心泰國行
NONG BUA LAMPHU - THAILAND DEC 2009
|
e-mail:
sunshine@sunshine-action.org
/ Tel:
852-9387-3243
-
SVD Mother of Perpetual Help Center
- M.C. House for the Children
Dec 2009,
Sunshine Action team with 5 volunteers arrived
Udon Thani and in cooperation with SVD Fr. Anthony Le Duc and
his assistant Fon, the mission covered
150 low-income
families with HIV/AIDS patients and elderly people in the
villages. We also covered some children & adult patients at the
Hospices.
  
 
We purchased all the basic food items
including white rice, sticky rice, soy sauce, fish sauce, sugar,
rice noodles, etc.. in a whole-sale store near Udon Thani.
 
 
The children in the M.C. Mother Teresa House
for the Children also help in our packing! They are wonderful
kids! For consecutively 3 years, we have visited them.
 
 
Many of the cases we visited have members with
HIV/AIDS or other severe sickness. Some live completely alone
being abandoned by the family; some are elderly taking care of
the orphan children.
 
 
 
e-mail:
sunshine@sunshine-action.org
/ Tel:
852-9387-3243
 
M.C. House for the Children
Until end of 2009, this is the only home of Missionaries of
Charity in Thailand taking care of orphans.
 
Not to many volunteers come to this remote village because of
the distance, Sunshine Action
volunteers would like to keep the visiting regularly to
celebrate the annual birthday party with them...
|
|
KLONG TOEY - BANGKOK - THAILAND MARCH 2008 |
THAILAND - KLONG TOEY - The biggest slum area of Bangkok with
nearly 150'000 poor families living in low standard.
In March 2008, in association with Duang Prateep Foundation, we
have a bit of action from Sunshine with Rice supplies, mainly
for the children and their families of the D. P. Kindergarten
and some dedicated to the 'Emergency Relief' program.
 
 
852-6888
4028sunshine@sunshine-action.org
**Donation over HKD 100 is tax-deductible in Hong Kong under IRD-No. 91/10271***
捐款HK$100元或以上，可獲香港退稅收據.
The Faith & Commitment 不離不棄不捨的誓言
to serve the poorest, the unwanted, the sick, the hungry, the
wounded, the unloved, the thirsty, the homeless...
Sunshine Action Ltd is only based in Hong Kong
& This is the only official Website.
^ back to top |
.png)
