September 2018
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GIS HELPS LOCAL CHARITY<br />
GIS students have helped provide an education for underprivileged children in the local area.<br />
Bethlehem House was launched in 2010 by Christ Church Ban Chang to provide a safe home<br />
for orphans and children who were at risk in the community.<br />
It was built because there were many cases of children who had either run away from home<br />
or were neglected or estranged from their parents. As a result, they turned to drugs or joined<br />
criminal gangs.<br />
The aims of the Bethlehem House Project are to help and support neglected children and<br />
those from families with problems, to provide education so the children have a better quality of<br />
life and a secure future and to enhance the children’s social life skills.<br />
Bethlehem House currently has 9 children who live there aged from 9 to 14, and two full-time<br />
staff.<br />
GIS raised 32,750 baht from a mufti day, bake sale, Milo shoot (fundraising activities mainly<br />
organised and lead by Mr Garth) and donations from K.Fon’s Swan Bakery. We have planted<br />
fruit trees, and invited the children to participate in the Christmas Fair, where Santa brought<br />
all the children Christmas boxes. The money will be used to help the children with their education.<br />
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