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Originally Posted by Big Bear
If some one is interested in teaching as a volunteer, I know a nice wittayakom school in Umphang. Lovely area and nice students.
You can get a non-immigrant visa if you are willing to spent a few months there.
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HI Big Bear
I just got back from a trip to UMPHANG WITTIYAKOM SCHOOL where I went with my husband, driving from bangkok. We have been sponsoring a few kids there for years and we finally decided to go there and see the school. We met the teachers and gave a small class to the kids teaching map reading and then donated a bunch of stuff.
The school has 350 students, 40% of the boarding. Majority are from hill tribes in the area and they are very poor. Their families live in hill tribe areas and communities very far from any towns and even far from navigable roads. If you sponsor a child there you keep him or her from a life of hardship, farming, picking rice and corn, having no education to speak of. Its a hard life out there. Very far from everything. The school takes very good care of the kids. We met kids whose families live 80km walk from a road. That means a 3 day walk over hills and mountains to get to a paved road.... Hard to imagine...
We really want to help the school some more as we see it is doing such a great job with the kids and its a slog getting supplies and trying to find good English teachers and so on.
If you know of a way to get good English teachers to go there and teach for a term or two the school would set them up with a work permit, visa and housing.
I know the headmaster and he is really keen. The teachers are devoted, hard-working, committed, good people.
The kids are diligent, sweet and deserve a chance.
I hope that this post can get someone interested in finding out more about the school.
Best
Niki
