Who are Khao Lak Friends?

The organisations "Orphan Education Foundation" and "Hilfe für Khao Lak Tsunamiopfer e.V." are two independant organisations, which are working together very closely.
The German organisation "Hilfe für Khao Lak Tsunamiopfer e.V." is raising funds which are completely given to the "Orphan Education Foundation", which is located in Thailand.
Furthermore it is looking for people who are willing to support tsunami orphans in the Khao Lak area through godparenthoods. The "Orphan Education Foundation" is coordinating all the work in Thailand.

Joint projects

Caring for the orphan children

The goal is the personal care for the orphan children. A personal godparenthood should be arranged for every orphan child.
The godparents are supporting the children with 1.200,- Baht (which is about 25,- Euro) each per month. This money will be paid out monthly and without any deductions to the orphans or respectively the families, where they are living now, by the Thai partner organisation.
The costs for transferring the money and exchange rate losses will be balanced through donations.
Annotation: The Sparkasse Emsland in Germany is not charging us any money transfer costs.

School bus

Following Tsunami tragedy about 80% of the families of the school children of the Pak Weep and the Bang Niang school found that their houses and vehicles were nearly completely damaged. Luckily, through the help and kind support of private and government sectors, houses were being built for the Tsunami victims in a very safe place, but quite far from schools.
The school children, therefore, face a big problem of going to and coming from schools. This necessitates Mr. Watana Mitarawong, principal of Ban Pak Weep school, to set up this project and present it to the attention of the "Orphan Education Foundation" and to kindly coordinate with those who would like to help the children who are in desperate needs of a school bus.

Furthermore, availability of school bus will greatly help ease the burden in taking care of their going to school each day and they will have time to do things for a living. From the initiative ideas of the principal, the "Orphan Education Foundation" has kindly extended support to the Ban Bang Niang school as well, by limiting a period of support to the two schools to 3 years.
First, in the year 2005, the project has already received financial support for the amount of 110.000 Baht from the "Friends of Khao Lak" and "Novotel Hotel Bangkok on Siam Square" to pay for the rent of the school bus.
For the years 2006 and 2007, the "Orphan Education Foundation" is still waiting for help from kind patrons and those who are kind and willing to support and make fruitful contribution to this worthy project.

Due to the normalisation of the situation in Khao Lak this project was terminated by 31 December 2007.

School lunch

This project is being set up with a principal aim to help the 130 school children of Ban Pak Weep School and the 70 school children of Ban Bang Niang School in the provision of luncheon for the children of both schools.
To begin with, the "Orphan Education Foundation" in conjunction with the "Hilfe für Khao Lak Tsunamiopfer e.V." have already given a sum of 186.000 baht as a luncheon fund to both schools.
The period of help is being fixed within the limits of 3 years from 2005 to 2007. The main objective of this project is to help support the children, whose families were heavily affected by the Tsunami disaster in the provision of luncheon for all of these children, and thus to ease the tremendous burden of their parents.
The "Orphan Education Foundation" is still awaiting help and support from kind patrons and those who would like to make an admirable contribution to this project.

Due to the normalisation of the situation in Khao Lak this project was finished by 31 December 2007.

Further projects of the "Orphan Education Foundation"

Supporting the education of poorer children / Education fund

Many children in all parts of the country don't have the opportunity to visit a secondary school or a college to continue their education. The reason for this circumstance is that their parents are very poor and that they are living far away from economic centers.
The "Orphan Education Foundation" will chose some children out of this group, who have excellent school achievements but poor parents and help them to get a financial support for their education until university level. This will raise their chances to later get a job and to make an essential contribution to the economy of their country.
It is a long-term project which is supporting the children through the arrangement of an education fund.

Building a school in Ban Klong Ya Mo

This project is situated in the district Wang Nam Kewa, Changwat Nakornratchasima. The motivation of the founder derives from his own childhood. He had to walk about 15 km daily to school and back.
When he is visiting his home town now he is observing the same picture like 40 years ago. Nothing has changed. The children still have to walk or go by bicycle the same long distance to school.
He is following the idea to build an own school for this village to create a place for the children where they can learn and thus to provide the village a better future. Therefore this project is planned very consciously and goal-oriented. After the school is finished it will be handed over to the ministry of education for the further direction and administration.

This project couldn’t be finished due to missing financial means. Unfortunately our financial means were just enough for the projects in the Khao Lak region. And with a distribution of the funds the single projects would have been successful only partially.