Archive for February, 2009

StreetKids + Project LIVES!

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

Alright. Some of you have been asking to see the new place where the streetkids are putting up.

The impetus for the shift from our field office to the new place is due to the constant influx of new children and more importantly, our children are growing up. So we do foresee problems if they share a single room at the basement of my office.

So here it is, it isn’t 5-star but its just perfect for our expanding streetkids work. This is what it has…
- 4 Rooms
- Storeroom (or rather storage corridor)
- 2 Toilets (One inside and one out in the field!)
- 1 External kitchen
- 1 big hall which we partitioned to cater for more storage space.
- Parking space :)
- On a plot of field which is roughly the size of 1 football field

Arrival Of Project LIVES! Container

Friday, February 27th, 2009

The container arrived early yesterday morning after some small delays at the port. The goods arrived all intact :)

As you know, the village has low hanging wires as such the container can only reach the main holding area and we had to use an additional 3 trucks and engage our part time workers to assist in the unloading process.

From the main holding area, the reliefs were shuttled to 2 different storage areas for easy access. The first is our existing office and ops hub, the second is our new streetkids! accommodation building.

Some pictures of the day in actions..

Monday A Big Day

Sunday, February 22nd, 2009

The 40′ Project LIVES! container has arrived in Bangkok safely and is now undergoing custom checks.
If all goes smoothly, we should expect the container to arrive the village on Monday. That is when all the action will start…. why ?

The village has low hanging wires(electricals, phone etc etc) and the container has height restrictions…. less we tear down 1/2 of the village’s power supply.

We’ll be parking the container at the nearest clearing and shuttle the items to our 2 storage sites. And this would roughly take half a day considering the number of cartons involved.

And yes, we are also expecting a staff from Syngenta to come down.
Syngenta, a world-leading agro-tech company has kindly offered to contribute to our Community Development Project (Phetchabun Integrated Farm) by providing their high growth variety seeds and expertise.

Lets see how things run on monday :)