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Will you help send a Thai student to the USA on a student exchange year? Rainbow Gifts-USA and Youth For Understanding Thailand are working together to finance a student exchange year. A student has now been picked from the mahout families and the general worker families at the Lampang Elephant Center. Her name is "Joy." YFU Thailand is paying all the Thailand costs for her. Rainbow Gifts-USA is paying for the YFU-USA part of the trip. Normally, the families at the camp would not be able to afford such an undertaking. YFU Thailand and Rainbow Gifts-USA feel this is our way of giving them an opportunity that they, otherwise, could not afford. See below for pictures and information on the student selected. All art sold from this page will go toward financing the Joy's trip (including the air fare) for the 2009-2010 school year or the following year. Our goal, is to raise $5560 for our portion of the exchange year. We pledge that all profits from art on this page will go toward that end. This fundraiser was started 1 June 2008. Current Funds Raised: $357.00 |
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"Guay" ("a mahout (elephant-driver) very masterful with the arduous routine of training and taming wild elephants") (See page "Art3" for more artist information.) by Nua-un
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"Chern Dtang Jai" ("Attention Please") (See page "Art2" for more artist information.) by Lukhan
Elephant Art
Price: $190.00
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 #EDP288"Lohm Naa Naa Phan" ("Many Colors of the Wind ") (See page "Art4" for more artist information.) by Khankluay
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"Aeht Khaehp Mai" ("No Escape") (See page "Art1" for more artist information.) by Aet |
Send
a student to the USA.
The
director of YFU Thailand and the director of the Thai Elephant Training camp
near Lampang, Thailand have made the selection of Budsayamas J. who lives at the
Elephant Conservation Camp where our EDP products are made. Her nickname
is "Joy" and she will be coming to the U.S. in August of 2009.
She is seventeen and has never traveled outside of Thailand. As a matter
of fact, she just got her first trip to Bangkok to start her orientation for
this program. She is a happy young lady who enjoys being with her friends
and playing the Saxaphone in her school band in Lampang, Thailand. We will also be working with YFU-USA to find her a suitable
family in the United States for her stay during the coming school year.
Joy
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1. Joy and her family in her neighborhood. 2. With her family in front of her house.
3. Elephant training grounds nearby. 4. Joy, 4th from right, with Prasop, the director of the camp and the six other nominees.
Click to enlarge pictures.
Thank you for your support. All profits on this page go to Joy's exchange year in the U.S.
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water at a time. It is then deposited from the trunk to the mouth.