New School in Mae Hong Son
Last week we could open our first school project with 45 children, 6 teachers and one head master. We help in a small hill tribe village in Mae Hong Song province, where the children have had no other chance to attend school. The curriculum is prepared by the teachers and we additionally try to maintain the tribal culture, create transparency, encourage environmental responsibility, work with gender and health issues. It is our goal to impact the whole village through community development in a holistic approach with education for a better future. Our initial starting point is the school project where we made a long term commitment. The villagers built themselves the new school building, a simple practical bamboo structure. Once the school operates smoothly we will follow up with our next steps, providing clean drinking water and address other environmental issues. At this stage we want to give our special thanks to our friend Yosi who helped with financial support for the teachers salaries and made this possible.