2012-2013 has been another busy year for Community & Service in the secondary school.

With 28 student-led service groups working with 32 community partners, students held 68 events to address issues of global importance, ranging from animal welfare to sustainable living, poverty to childrens education. This year saw the reorganization of service groups into a flower model, based on the Sustainability Compass, in which service groups were divided into nature, economy, society or well-being. Each of these categories represents a key aspect of sustainable development. The division of groups into these categories will allow for more collaboration between service groups in the future, as groups are led by a petal leader who seeks such opportunities. Four days, each dedicated to a specific compass point were also celebrated. The inaugural petal leaders and awareness days are year are:
NATURE - Aradhana Sachdev Earth Day (April 22) ECONOMY - Bos Chitwannapa Eradication of Poverty Day (October 17) SOCIETY - Ellis Cox-Mcallister International Womens Day (March 8) WELL-BEING - Zeyu Hu World AIDS Day (December 1)

Student leadership also guided the events that were run. Three students served on the Events Approval Team alongside staff to ensure events were organized that helped realize the Community & Service Vision. Year 12 and 13 students continued to run the NIST Development Bank, funding and supporting student-driven initiatives. The student members of the Events Approval Team are:
Year 10 Isabel Hahn Year 11 Ja Eun Kim Year 12 Sarika Bhatt Year 13 (exiting member) Gordon Chang

In addition to service groups that are run as extra-curricular activities (ECAs), iChoice activities or in students free time during lunch, students also engaged with service through Houserooms, particularly in years 7-9, addressing the following:
Year 7 Looking after each other Community Challenge Year 8 Change for Chang Challenge Year 9 Sustainable Changing Cities Challenge

All MYP students also reflected on their participation in their blog-based portfolios, and DP students engaged with service through CAS (Creativity, Action, Service. Thank you all those who contributed their time and efforts to the Community & Service program at NIST.
Teresa Tung MYP Community & Service Coordinator

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Group Name Amnesty International Bully Busters Charity Palette (NAHS) Clean up the Reef Day Children of the Forest Concordia Welfare Dance Team Dreams We Believe In Footy For Friends Mercy Arts Elephant Nature Park eWaste Flip the Tide From Funk to Punk GreeNIST GreeNIST Paper Habitat for Humanity ISARA Kids for Cancer Mae Lid Project MushieMushie NIST Development Bank Ocean Marine Guardians PAWS Smile Club Peace Matunda Thai Craft Fair Youth Ecological Network

Student Leader(s)
Bond Uahwatanasukul, Shilpita Mathews Ankita Brahmachari, Krishina Ramani|, Reyna Roachthavilit Sukrit Srisakulchawla

Adult Mentor (s)

Joe Holroyd Randy Wallis Aza Dzinic

Gordon Chang, Fern Ratanaprusakul

Isabel Hahn, Cherry Sirisomboonwong Pichamol Sirijuntanan (Earth) Pam Chaiyachakorn, Charlotte Rogers, Arin Naidu Sarika Bhatt Emma Johansson Bos Chitwannapa, Ricky Sethi, Ritah Chumdermpadetsuk Bos Chitwannapa, Cee Phongsirivech, Em Chunnananda Shilpita Mathews Aradhana Sachdev, Ploy Kambhu Na Ayudhaya Daniel Demitz-Helin TingTing Lee Madeline McPherson, Arshiya Sehgal Ja-Eun Kim Zeyu Hu Ellis Cox-McAllister, Moe Haneda Shubham Varshney, House Leaders Am (Rairat Chunnananda) Toey Chianpatanaruk, Bos Chitwannapa

Teresa Tung, Moira Litchfield

John Bellamy, John Hoare, Raymond Nall N/A Joachim Ekstorm Tony Callaghan David Cameron Michelle Vogel Andy Dorn Ms. Aza Dzinic David Cameron Philip Branston Brian Johnson Allison Coutts Raymond Normand Will Kirkwood John Bellamy, Jennilea Hortop Teresa Tung Adrian Watts Andy Dorn

Noam Heller, Phoebe Stephen, Nicky Bourgeois Lexi George, Petch Ayudhaya Ally Christensen, Anya Srikureja Kareena Ramani Zeyu Hu, Aradhana Sachdev

Kristen Raymond Randy Wallis Matt Manfredi Michelle Vogel

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Community Partner Amnesty International Thailand Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Abuse Center (ATCC) Baan Mae Lid Project Bangkok School for the Blind Bangpu Nature Education Centre The Border Consortium Buffalo Tours Camillian Home Children of the Forest Chulalongkorn Hospital Concordia Welfare Center Elephant Nature Park FREELAND Foundation Friends International Friends of the Asian Elephant Friendship of the Arts Foundation Good Shepherd Sisters Habitat for Humanity Thailand Locks of Love Love Wildlife Foundation Mechai Pattana School Mercy Center Mermaid's Dive Center Operation Smile Paper Rangers PAWS Peace Matunda School/Orphanage Phayathai Baby Home Raitong Organics Farm Shark Guardian St. Baldrick's Foundation TES-AMM Thai Craft Fair UNIAP on Human Trafficking

NIST Involvement
Amnesty International Group ISARA Mae Lid Group / House GreeNIST Papermaking (for braille books) Ocean Marine Guardians Ban Mae Surin Relief Drive Y11 Human Trafficking Drama Tour Camillian Home Group Children of the Forest Group/ International Women's Day Kids Fighting Cancer Concordia Welfare Center ECA Y9 Blue Service Elephant Nature Park service group Y8 Service MushieMushie FinFree Thailand International Eradication of Poverty Day Elephant Nature Park Service Group (Movie Screening) Dance Showcase Y9 Green Service Habitat for Humanity Group Kids Fighting Cancer Youth Ecological Network GreeNIST - Rooftop Garden Dreams We Believe In Clean Up the Reef Day Ocean Marine Guardians Smile Club GreeNIST - Paper Recycling PAWS group Peace Matunda Group Y9 Orange Service GreeNIST - Rooftop Garden FinFree Thailand Kids Fighting Cancer eWaste Thai Craft Fair Volunteers ISARA

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Service at NIST has increasingly focused on direct service in which students interact directly with the communities they serve and advocacy in which students raise awareness of the issues they address rather in place of fundraising. The success of the program is much better reflected in the impact on beneficiaries, and learning of the students. Sample student reflections have been included for this purpose. All groups dealing with monetary transactions have included a financial report. Below is a summary of funds raised directly to benefit an organization.

Community Partner
The Border Consortium Children of the Forest

Purpose of funds
Provide relief after a fire in the Ban Mae Surin refugee camp Provided education for vulnerable girls on the Thai-Burmese border. Raised on International Womens Day Purchase land to expand sanctuary and for daily expenses to care for elephants. Provided materials for the building of a house in Rayong. Provided funds for cancer research at Chlalongkorn hospital.

Funds Donated
(in Thai Baht)

179,537 25,095 45,098 28,500 234,053 36,000 13,000 30,000 103,441 145,000 369,208 1,208,932

Elephant Nature Park Habitat for Humanity

Kids Fighting Cancer

(Note: funds raised in June, 2012. Funds raised in June, 2013 will be reported next school year).

Mae Lid School Mercy Center PAWS Peace Matunda Development Bank Operation Smile

Sponsor the education of 6 children at a school for Karen (hill tribe) children. To support the braille education for two blind girls at the Mercy Center. Provided sterilization and vaccinations for street cats. Provided funds for education of 10 children at the Peace Matunda school. Education scholarships to low-income staff members children. To fund treatment for over 20 years for 5 children born with cleft lip or cleft palette

TOTAL:

In addition, the Development Bank distributed 101,585THB in funds to support service groups efforts.

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Each student in the MYP is expected to engage meaningfully with Community & Service each year. The following are excerpts from students reflections on their blog-based portfolio, to demonstrate the variety and depth of learning that occurs as a result of engaging with Service.

Participating in community & Service has helped me become much more caring towards elementary and love the EY kids. The EY kids look up to us like their older brothers. I have helped the EY kids really enjoy reading much more. I realise much more clearly that school isnt just about grades helping others out is much more important. I now wont spend all my time studying but I will think about ways to help the community.
Billy Mycroft-Edwards, Red House

Community and Service made be a more caring person. I know this because I have thought about many people since I wanted a nice applause display. I have got a message from my friend too and reading it made me feel so special that I wanted to make more people feel that way. Community Service really helps you stop think and then always end up caring about someone. Community and Service had also made me a more balanced person. Since to me school was always academics and grades. I had never thought about schools doing things like this before I came to NIST. I am more balanced since now I dont only consider school as studying it is much more than that. I feel proud of myself to be helping NIST becoming a better place.

Brahmachari, Ankita, Blue House Community service means to understand the community around us and to give them what they need. Our goal is to bring happiness and to basically make people happy. When people are happy, the atmosphere becomes positive. I think I have improved on myself management skills, because we just had to go out and take pictures for a little bit and we had to be back at a certain time. We got our stuff done and managed to get back on time. We also got a lot of work done too.

Ramani, Krishina, Purple House

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Ive learnt so much in the change for change fair but the most thing I learnt and understood most was how people treated elephants, when I was younger I would always go on these elephant rides and I would always buy food for the elephants, but I never knew that the elephants were in pain. Now that I know I regret every ride I was in with the elephants. I have learnt that I love helping our community! and I have released how much I enjoy helping animals and people. This fair has helped me released how much I enjoy doing these things. For my profile attributes I choose to do caring because I showed how much I cared for these elephants and if I get to choose to do these again I would have even more fun! Bassetti, Melissa, Red House

During house, we have been doing service. We are researching about Changs (asian elephant), and how to help them. We need to KNOW first, before we could ACT. We know that Asian elephants are being abuse, and we know the statistics. Then, we need to know how to save. As a purply, we took action and participation by educating people about the issues about Changs (asian elephant) and let them donate. We get to educate them, and also raise money for elephants.

Lee, Tharit, Purple House

In this challenge, the most interesting things that I learnt were about the crush itself, and also the amount of elephants that are left in this world. The importance of Asian Elephants towards the Thai and other cultures was also very interesting for me, since I have never thought how significant elephants are to the Thai culture in various ways as well as towards other cultures. It was good to know that an animal valued in my personal culture is also valued through other areas of the world. I demonstrated during the service challenge was caring. I was caring about the topic of Asian Elephants, which therefore caused me to take genuine action. I had to care about this issue in order to be able to actually take action, because if i didnt care, I probably wouldnt take any action especially in the Elephant Fair since I wouldnt have the motive to do so, and of course, I did care.

Chunnananda, Am (Rairat), Green House

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During my trip to Concordia Welfare, I got the chance to play an assortment of activities with the little children, as depicted in the picture. I personally, loved this experience, seeing the little children happy, which consequently made me feel exceedingly glad for them as well. This is therefore related to community and service, as we had gotten the chance to help the children who stay at the Concordia Welfare daycare centre and played various recreational games and art and craft with them which they especially enjoyed. I personally find it very touching to see these children happy, they were laughing and they were merely having so much fun and I also remember that before leaving, they asked when we will be coming back. This therefore, shows the impact that we have given to them, by just enjoying ourselves and taking out a short amount of time. Hence, making me wonders what we could do to help these children if we took just a bit more time than 2 hours to do something for them.

Narang, Anjali, Blue House This is related to community and service because the more plants we grow, the more greener the environment is therefore, making the city a better place. Rooftop planting also relates to what we learned in humanities which was changing cities. This is because rooftop planting is part of improving the environment so overall, positively impacting and changing the city. Also in humanities, we learned and observed the city and looked at the attractiveness of the city. Rooftop planting will improve the looks on the rooftop by replacing a big and plain space with greenery plants.

Grace Leeswadtrakul, Yellow House

I went to the Phayathai babies home to take care of the babies, because they dont have any parents to take care of them, they are left out and we, orange house are there to help comfort the babies and see what we can do for them. I learn that, I like playing around and taking care of the kids and children. I learn that by doing this, I can understand more of the kids behavior and what do they want. I am very lucky that I have a loving family, that will take care of me and I make the orphans feel the same.

Jay Chuang, Orange House

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The issue I addressed was helping out the Mae Lid village. Orange house had a sponsorship student who needed money to go and finish school so that he could have enough education to get a good job. Unfortunately, I did not get to meet the student, but some other people in my homeroom did. They told me his story and I immediately thought of ways that we could raise money for him. Since my strengths are organizing event and making sure everything happens like it should, I suggested to my homeroom that we do something together to raise money. I was able to play to my strengths in order to help someone in need, and that made me feel really good about myself. I could see that my strengths were useful and can be used to help others.

Fallon Parfaite, Orange House

Initially I found service as a burden on me, in the sense that I had to do it and it was terrible. After a couple of weeks when i started to get into the service community I found it to be fun and rewarding. The issues I wanted to address include marine wildlife and orphaned children. I have been interested in these issues because I hear a lot about it at school and I feel bad that I havent taken action before and when I was posed with the opportunity I was thrilled and joined the service group of Footy for Friends and then joined the iChoice of OMG, Ocean Marine Guardians. The issue that the group of Footy For Friends was addressing was generally the problem that people who are poor have children to help provide money on the streets and the children ended up un-educated, poorly nourished, sick and injured. Initiall y I thought that Im just going to join the group and help send money to support them but I was entirely wrong when I found out that we were making T-Shirts for selling, going to the mercy every week on Saturdays, having fund raisers and having one day where the children come to NIST and we play football with them. Ran Gil, Red House

I have been involved in the Dance Team. What the team does is raise awareness and money towards the Friends of the Art Foundation, kids who dont have enough money to continue their future in education. We give dance scholarships to the less fortunate. Ive never learned how to dance before and I have only watched YouTube videos. Ive been dancing for around 4 years or so and it only been this year since I joined the team.

Gem Asawachatroj, Green House

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This service activity involved devising a short series of performances in small groups and then putting them together. Each performance had a theme that related to human trafficking such as money or marriage or work opportunities,etc. We had decided to use audience interaction as a form of making the audience a part of the performance and making them come to the point of realization about the issue and how vulnerable they are to it. Shannon Tanwani

Ive always wanted to do different things that will enable me to help people. I am one of the main leaders for Habitat for Humanity and I really enjoy being able to lead the meetings and take important decisions of the group. Having to take commitment to these different groups really enables me to have a bigger perspective on the different opportunities that i have to really help the people that need it. The NIST community really does take a big part in organizing different groups that are taking part in Community and Service. Many people are also interested in helping and making a difference, which really inspires all the other students and participants to make it worth of an experience for them. Crystal Christopher

The issue that I wanted to address is about how to raise awareness towards the lack of human rights. I first learned about Amnesty (Community & Service group that deals with the issue) from my friend and was interested in it, so I decided to join the NIST Amnesty. Even though the group deals with the lack of human rights but we mostly concerned about Death Penalty. Before I joined NIST Amnesty, I always thought that theres not much country in the world that have the death penalty system. However, it seems like I was very nave, there are countries with the death penalty system more than I thought. Different countries with different cultures deal with different types of crime but the outcome are the same Death Penalty. People who committed crime are definitely wrong but that doesnt mean that we can ignore their rights and easily take away their life. Michiyo Anzai

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In the pages to follow, the Community & Service in the 2012-2013 school year is summarized, along with reflections from the organizers regarding the effectiveness of the events. The reports are not edited for language errors, as they serve to: Maintain a record of the events Encourage active reflection from organizers

Reports are divided into the four categories of the Sustainability Compass, and color coded accordingly:

NATURE: Groups addressing environmental sustainability or animal welfare. ECONOMY: The Development Bank gives loans and oversees finances. SOCIETY: Groups addressing issues of social inequity and cohesion. WELL-BEING: Groups addressing individual wellness, health and happiness.
Reflections on the events are completed through the keys of service, as stated in the Community & Service Vision:

Organizers reflected on events based on the following prompting questions:

CONNECTION
How much collaboration did your activity involve between students and adults? The participants and the beneficiaries? How much did it invite participation from the NIST community? Is your activity sustainable and allow for future development?

ACTION
How did you decide what you needed to do? Was your activity based on actual needs? Was it environmentally conscious? Financially sustainable? Culturally appropriate?

ENRICHMENT
What kind of impact did your activity have? How did it enrich the world? How did your activity increase the participants awareness of the issues? Did you think globally, act locally?

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Group leaders: Gordon Chang, Fern Ratanaprusakul Teacher Mentors: Teresa Tung, Moira Litchfield

40 participants

40 students went to Pattaya for the day to clean up an island as part of Mermaid Dive Centers participation in International Clean Up Day. We collected several tons of garbage and helped sort the garbage for the Dive Center.

The activity was led by Gordon and Fern, who consulted with Ms. Teresa.

We did the event because it was the third time it had been done at NIST. The ocean is

We gathered many tons of garbage. Some participants

They had some support from

other student leaders. They also connected with Mermaids Dive Center. We have a good relationship with this dive center and will be able to repeat this event in the future if we want. We had to limit participation to

polluted and we need to clean

it up. It helped the environment, but we probably used a lot of petrol to get everybody to Pattaya and back in one day. Everybody paid for the trip, so no fundraising was needed.

learned a little bit

more about the marine life, but many went and picked up the garbage without thinking about why. Marine pollution is a global issue and we acted in a local

40 students so it could be
more meaningful than before.

context.

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Purpose:

Collect paper from classrooms around the school and reuse and recycle the paper.

Group leaders: Madeline McPherson and Arshiya Sehgal Teacher Mentors: Brian Johnson

iChoice Sessions 1-3

In this activity, one sided paper and double sided paper is collected from classrooms around the school. This paper is then sorted according to its type and sent to appropriate destination. For example, the double sided paper goes to the blind institute, the one sided paper goes to the Early years centre here at NIST. Exercise books are created and sent to an NGO called Paper ranger.

Papermaking and collecting is an activity which runs within the NIST community. It was initially an adult run activity. Its responsibility was later transferred to students. The students involved in Papermaking and collecting range from years 10 to 13. These students spend time during iChoice to sort, collect and make paper. There is massive participation on behalf of the NIST community; as all the classrooms NIST have begun to organise their paper. This organisation ensures that the Papermaking and collecting activity can reuse and recycle this paper. Papermaking and collecting is a sustainable activity which runs for the benefit of the NIST community. It reuses and puts to use all the presumed waste paper helping future development.

Papermaking and collecting has four aspects collecting paper, recycling paper, making paper and making exercise books for underprivileged Thai kids. The making paper aspect phased out and the making of exercise books was introduced. The collecting and recycling aspect remained. This activity was based on the environmental conscious effort where a large amount of paper wasnt being recycled and just thrown away. Taking action and recycling and reusing the paper ensured that the paper could be reused and go to a better cause, for example, a school for blind students where the paper is made into braille.

Initially when papermaking and collecting started there had only been 2-3 participants. It was easy to handle as that meant that delegating jobs was fairly easy. Although, a lot could not get done at the end of a single session. As time went on, the number of participants increased and in turn the issue of throwing away paper had increased. This increase in awareness led to teachers who were not collecting paper to start collecting paper. All this had a positive effect on the NIST community as a large amount of the waste paper was reused ensuring less environmental damage. A small step in the NIST community could have raised awareness with the students and possibly parents who all began to act locally responsible of the paper they consume.

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Purpose:

Creating a more sustainable NIST with a rooftop farm.

Group leaders: TingTing Lee Teacher Mentors: Philip Branston

Secondary ECA Wednesdays/Fridays, Y9 Homerooms, Y2, and EY

The purpose of this activity is to create a natural, environmentally friendly atmosphere for the school, by growing various plants. By setting up a sustainable mini farm which helps provide some financial aid to the possible members (teachers, staffs, students, etc.) It also provides an opportunity for us (people involved in the GreeNIST Rooftop Garden) to experience and learn the ways of agriculture (growing plants, harvesting, basic skills) and the nature of our world, and that we will not forget and be able to pass it on to the next generation. Every Wednesday and Friday afterschool from 2:30 4:30pm. Students, teachers and staffs would come up to the secondary buildings roof to help plant and harvest. There are many kind of plants we plant not only just vegetables, fruits, trees, flowers but having our own decompose area, worm farm, hydroponics, etc. It provides group members a chance to relieve stress and experience nature.

GreeNIST allows the NIST community members to connect with each other as it allows people to work together (sharing knowledge and ideas) It is also a good way for teachers and students to interact outside school time. And the vegetable sales allow people to interact more with different level.

The action taken was to use items in the school that were in property gathering dust! We have taken baby steps as we have had to look at the extreme environment that we have been working in and make changes accordingly. Decisions on what needed done were made at meetings and also through informal conversations. Financially we need to be more sustainable but with sales this is becoming more viable. Our main out goings are in soil but fertiliser will eat into our budget as the soil is not that good! Culturally all good!

The impact has been great. We have taken an empty unused space and breathed life into it literally. We are more aware that we can be self-sustainable in some things and dont need to depend on others for food. It has been great for Houserooms (students and teachers) to get out of class and do stuff which they have never tried! It has enriched the campus for sure and made people happy!

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Purpose:

to raise awareness of our dependence on e-waste as well as to encourage students to take

Group leaders: Shilpita Matthews, Sneha Phlaphongphanich Teacher Mentors: Andy Dorn

Open to all secondary students

This was an inter-house competition held from the 26th of September to the 9th of October. In order to achieve this, each house was encouraged to collect e-waste ranging from old televisions to fax machines. All houses received house-points, and the house with the most number of electronic devices (Blue House) won the competition. There was a great response from the NIST community as more than 400 old electronic devices were collected. All these devices were sent for safe recycling to TES-AMM, a safe recycler of electronic-waste. Next year, the collection of e-waste will be a permanent feature at NIST with the introduction of a recycling box near the school gate.

This event was successful in connecting with secondary school students that directly participated in the collection. The integration with the house system proved to be beneficial as a

The group and activity originated from the fact that NIST does not currently have a proper electronic waste recycling system in place. Thus, the event

The activity helped raise awareness of the consequences of improper electronic waste disposal and the hazards it causes to the environment.

competition served as an
incentive to partake in the activity.

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Purpose: The mission of Ocean Marine Guardians is to make sustainable conservation efforts towards preserving the ocean and marine ecosystems in Thailand.
Group leaders: Adele Birkenes, Adrija Chaudhuri, Joy Kim, Kendya Goodman Teacher Mentors: Andy Dorn, Simon Grimmer

Mangrove Planting Trips

The purpose of the events was to plant Mangrove Trees. Mangrove trees are very helpful in areas which are prone to flooding and the general ecosystem, so the purpose of these trips is to increase the amount of mangrove plants in rural areas. The OMG group travel to a designated Mangrove Planting area and after discussing with the people who maintain the area we plant mangrove saplings in appropriate areas.

Our activity involves a lot of collaboration between adults and students as well as participants and beneficiaries. Before planting the mangroves, we discuss where the best places are and learn about mangrove trees so that we understand more about the ecosystem and why our action is meaningful. As an activity, we invite members of the OMG ECA and Ichoice to attend mangrove planting trips, however if any members of the community hear about it and are passionate about the ocean they can attend as well. Our activity is very sustainable as these mangrove trees are planted as saplings. They will grow and remain as effective flood barriers for many years.

We understood that mangrove trees were effective flood barriers and are very good for the environment. The activity is based off of the needs of rural communities to be able to protect themselves from floods and other water-based natural disasters. It is extremely financially sustainable, as they themselves are self-sustaining and cost 10 baht each. This means that even if only 10 out of 100 trees survives and becomes a proper tree, it is still financially possible to plant more. The activity is more than environmentally conscious; it works to improve the environment.

The activity does not have an immediate impact on the environment; it takes a few years for the saplings to develop into proper trees. Once fully grown however, they will contribute to decreasing air pollution, by emitting oxygen and help in the event of natural disasters to prevent against floods. Before they actually plant the mangroves, the participants learn about the plants, how and why it is important to plant them. Pollution is a major global issue, one that needs a global effort, however by planting mangrove trees locally we make a conscious, and sustainable effort to help the cause.

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Clean up Day
Those who are attending take buses to the Mermaids dive centre in Pattaya, then they take a boat out to the reef that is being cleaned. The participants split up depending on if they are diving, snorkelling or only the beach and pick up trash. The trash is then separated into groups and recycled or correctly disposed of.

April 6th, 2013

The activity involved a lot of collaboration between students and adults as it involved cleaning the beach together, and the supervisors helped clean as well, rather than just supervising. There is not very much collaboration between the participants and the beneficiaries, however the Mermaids Dive Centre select which beach to clean based off of where it is necessary. This activity invites a lot of participation from the NIST community, with one of the clean ups being available to anyone in the secondary school. Although the activity is not very sustainable, it is more of a one-day activity with immediate and final impacts, it allows for a lot of future development.

Clean up the reef day is an activity that has recurred for many years at NIST, which was created as a means to try and save the coral reefs, or at least lessen immediate damage to them. The impact of this activity is beneficial for the environment and financially sustainable. The financial sustainability comes from the participants paying enough to cover the costs of the trip. It is culturally appropriate.

The activity has an immediate impact of cleaning the beach and the surrounding coral reefs, however the amount of trash and litter left in the area means that it is impossible to clean up everything on the beaches. With each trip, the participants become more and more aware that a more permanent solution is necessary. They see that the beach always returns to its state of degradation, and that the ocean needs more help. The world is having a coral crisis, with coral degradation being a major issue that is causing more problems with marine ecosystems, but we are unable to clean up the entire ocean, and so by cleaning up our local reefs, we think globally and act locally.

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Earth Week Display

The purpose of this event was to raise awareness for the issue of plastic disposal leading to marine life being harmed. We created marine animals out of chicken wire and filled them with plastic collected from the second clean up the reef day. We placed the animals in the entrance of the secondary building and put up posters.

April 22, 2013

Our activity did not involve a lot of collaboration between students and adults, however we worked with Mr Dorn to plan the event and he helped with the posters. This activity in particular did not have a direct beneficiary; rather it was an effort to raise awareness for marine conservation. It did not invite participation from the NIST community, it was something presented to the NIST community. The activity definitely invites future development, to try and come up with more and more creative ways to raise awareness.

We were inspired by a project by a few year 12s who were making a large plastic albatross to create more marine animals and set up a large display for earth week. It was based off of the need to conserve marine wildlife. It was culturally appropriate for the NIST community; it provoked interest and made a statement without crossing any boundaries. It is both financially sustainable and environmentally conscious as it used plastic that we took when cleaning the ocean. This means that this plastic is being reused rather than being left to pollute the ocean.

The activity raised awareness in the NIST community and had a positive impact. It showed the NIST community what the problem is, and how urgent the issue is. We thought about the global marine conservation necessities and tried to bring that urgency to our community, thus thinking globally and acting locally.

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Purpose: The mission of NIST-ENP is to raise awareness about the plight of endangered elephants in Thailand and allow students to connect with elephants that have been mistreated/abused. Group leaders: Bos Chitwannapa Teacher Mentors: Ms. Michelle Vogel
20+ participants

November 19, 2012 To raise awareness about the issue of elephants and land mines, and promote the Elephant Hospital in Surin province (specialises in elephant prosthetic legs), ENP group hosted an evening screening of Eyes of Thailand with special guest: Windy Borman, director. There was a Q&A session after the movie

Eyes of Thailand Screening

Documentary suggested by student mentor publicising of event and ticket sales planned by student leaders student volunteered selling food and drinks and as ushers for the screening NIST community participated by attending screening also attended by students from Regents Pattaya and Wells screening helped raise awareness about the issue.

Needs based on interest in screening the documentary Environmentally conscious, did not affect the environment Financially sustainable, profits from event donated to Elephant Hospital in Surin Province Culturally appropriate, warm atmosphere exchanging ideas on the issue

Children and teachers now know more about the issue of landmines and elephants people know more about presence of ENP in Chiang Mai and the Elephant Hospital in Surin Province.

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April 23, 2013 To raise awareness about various issues on elephants in Thailand, raise funds for ENPs land-buying scheme (to connect two elephant sanctuaries). Morning screening of How I Became an Elephant for Y6-8, lunchtime activities selling elephant cookies, Coca-Cola, brownies, elephant-themed mini-golf, as well as a caged-elephant simulation (performed by student), elementary school participated in a colouring activity colouring sheets displayed at the end of the day

Elephant Awareness Day

Extensive planning between students and adults student leaders assigned jobs for members, preparation of food and drinks, baking cookies and cupcakes, t-shirt sales, promotion of event, etc. NIST community participated by buying food and drinks, as well as asking questions and engaging in discussions about the issue of Thai elephants proceeds will go towards ENP event can be repeated, or developed further with new ideas and activities.

Decided to do event as part of Earth Week, to raise awareness within the NIST community, environmentally conscious did not affect the environment, materials used can be reused/recycled financially sustainable, high revenue, low costs culturally appropriate.

NIST community more aware of issue, creative and powerful fundraisers helped create a bigger impact on the students specified how people can act locally to help with the global cause (e.g. visiting ENP, spreading the word).

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Elephant Nature Park Visit

June 7 June 11

To learn more about ENP and help take care of elephants as volunteers at Elephant Nature Park in Chiang Mai Province, students visited the park. Daily activities include food preparation, cleaning of shelters, bathing elephants, feeding elephants, and other activities such as banana planting, visiting the elephant clinic, etc.

Both students and adults participate at ENP volunteers volunteering on-site directly benefits beneficiary NIST community participated by going on the trip trip can be offered yearly.

Trip fees paid to ENP accounts for all costs ENP facilities are environmentally conscious and low-impact financially sustainable as fees are paid by individual students.

Volunteers gain first-hand experience with elephants learn more about the issue as well as enjoying the experience word is spread about ENP after the trip.

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PURPOSE: The mission of Change for Chang was for year 8s to work together in order to do a project that would contribute to positive changes for Chang. The project must celebrate Thai elephants and educate our community on actions to take (or not take) to help elephants. Homeroom Teachers: Beth Golatzki, Luis Murillo, Aza Dzinic, Brian Johnson, Pia Berqvist, Jacqueline de Segonzac

Red House Elephant Stories

Red House wrote and illustrated childrens book about a tortured elephant at a tourist attraction in Myanmar. Organized a bake sale for everyone to enjoy

We were able to raise awareness about the torture and life that the elephants go through quite well. Through our books as well as the facts we had with the bake sale. We worked hard in homeroom and everyone was talking/ collaborating with each otherwhich we very much needed to do. And we all just had a very good time

We decided as a homeroom what we wanted to do and since everyone was quite keen to baking something- that was one of the things we did for the action part of this. We then realized that just a bake sale wasnt going to earn us a lot of points so we decided to write a book. It was a book based on actual facts that we found, and also written about one of the elephants at elephant nature park. Since it was about elephants we baked items that were related to elephants: Peanut Butter Brownies, Banana Muffins & Coconut Cookies

I think everyone really enjoyed reading our book, but we could have done a bit more with the bake sale. Although we did have people sign little elephant cut outs (which we stuck on the wall later) to show that they had read about it, and they support them. But after showing the book to ENP, we heard that they really enjoyed reading itand they have shared it with lots of the people that come and go from there. So we thought the book made a bigger impact than the actual bake sale we had on the day.

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Blue House Games, Story, and Baked Goods

Blue House hosted several games at the Change for Chang fair during lunch: Baked elephant shaped biscuits and sold them to raise money Wrote a storybook, The Story of Chang Fah, and read to Year 2, to raise awareness. Three-legged race around the Oval. To raise money. Old fashioned fair game: roll the ball down the slope. To raise money.

There was a great deal of collaborative planning between the members of the Story of Chang Fah authors. They then had to contact teachers of Y2 to book appointments to give readings of their book. They hoped to donate their copies of the book to the library, but didnt follow through with this. The makers of the fair game tended to work well at times in the construction stage but needed a bit too much encouragement from me (Mr Brian). They worked well on the actual day of the elephant fair. The 3-legged race organisers worked well together giving each other jobs to do to spread the work. For the elephant cookies, Tyler (and/or his made) did most of the baking and organising of cookie cutters, ingredients etc.

The book was a follow on from the research done by all Y8 in a previous class session. They incorporated all of the trials and tribulations associated with an elephants life. It was pitched at the correct level for Y2. Cookies are cookies theres not much cultural awareness needed for them!

The cookies sold well! Lots of money was raised. The fair game attracted a number of people and the students who designed and built it were able to discuss the life of an elephant as the players were successful or not in reaching the goal of safety at the ENP. Only a few people took up the 3-legged challenge, but the designers enjoyed what they were doing. The Story of Chang Fah was a hit with the youngsters.

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Green House Activities at Change for Chang Fair

We were part of a fair that involved every year 8 house colour. Our contribution involved a face painting, polaroid + backdrop, pledge and scavenger hunt booth along with a simulative elephant crush.

Our activity
connected to other students since we thought about what they would enjoy but not necessarily adults. We honestly did not refer or connect to the beneficiary(s) that

We worked during
house periods, separated into groups on the different booths. We decided on what to do simply by discussing what we should do, as a

Our event didnt have too much of an impact because the event had multiple booths, and only a few of them were ours. Also, all of our booths activities didnt really educate everything that we knew and werent super educational, or at least as much as we hope to be. Our activity increased the participants awareness of the issues in a pretty

much, and our certain

booths didnt really invite participants. Our activity wasnt really sustainable, nor did it allow for a lot of future development.

houseroom. Or
activity was necessary but it could have been completed alternatively, for example having other activities.

shallow way and didnt really drill the

information into their brains, or at least we werent even able to have that many participants in the first place. We were able to simulate how it was like for elephants to be in the crush, the importance of Thai elephants (but only to 2 people), how others in the community can help the issue and the

importance of doing so.

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Purple House Elephant Bookmarks

We made bookmarks with information about Asian Elephants on the back

This activity benefited both the students in our house and Ms. Aza. Since our activity involved creating artistic boxes and bookmarks, Ms. Aza was able to support us because she is an art teacher. This activity also involved all the students help because there were many jobs to be done. This means that all students had to work together in order to make all the donation boxes and bookmarks in time. We tried to involve the community by telling them about the current situation. We needed their help in order to raise money for the elephants. This activity could be sustainable if people had the time to make bookmarks.

At the beginning, there were many ideas being thrown around. A lot of them being very hard to stay committed to. At the end, we found that making the bookmarks was the easiest yet also the most helpful towards the elephants situation. Our bookmarks didnt impact the environment in any way. It makes a lot of money without us having to spend any. Overall, I think this activity created a good impact. For our service activity, our house room as a whole decided to make bookmarks with fun facts about elephants. The book mark also had different information about the elephants that was important towards the cause. We spent 2 lessons creating the bookmarks and donation boxes. After they were finished, we went around to different homerooms and told them about the situation with the elephants. This helped raise awareness. We then asked for donations and whoever donated got a free bookmark.

Our activity was able to raise awareness about the cause locally. We managed to tell many houserooms about what was going on and why we were helping the elephants. In addition to this, we were able to raise around 4700 baht for the elephants at ENP. Although the impact made was not huge, we were able to inform many students and this could be a start to a change.

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Yellow House Wristbands and Pledges

We sold wristbands and had students make pledges about how they will use their knowledge to help elephants. We also had a lottery wheel where people could spin and learn info about elephants and win a free wristband. We also published an article about elephant treatment. We did this all on two separate days in the oval.

Our activity allowed us to spread knowledge to all students in years 7-13 as well as teachers. Also, three of our homeroom members wrote an article about elephants that were published in the school magazine, thus connecting with the entire NIST community.

We wanted to make the most profit possible for donations and since we already had the wristbands we decided to sell these for 100% profit for ENP. Having student sign pledges was the action piece that came from the community.

The impact our activity had was to raise awareness in the NIST community- even if only a few people make decisions regarding how to better treat elephants.

Orange House bake Sale and Story

Students divided themselves into groups to work on different tasks: creating a story about elephants to read to the year 6 elementary students to raise awareness and to inspire some of the students to continue with this project by doing it for their exhibition; to bake cupcakes and brownies for sale for secondary students (Students also created little flags with the facts of elephants on them. Then they put little flags on top of the cakes).
The book was read and heard First, the student sat as a group and by year 6 and also will be published and lots of people will read it; if some of the passionate enough they may continue with this project which will raise even more awareness. tried to generate several ideas; however, with the time limitation given, students thought that benefit the elephants but was also a realistic goal with the time given. In order to collect this money, they thought that having a bake sale would reach the targeted goal. Students who bought the brownies read the messages on them and gained knowledge about elephant. Year 6 students were very interested in the story and they would like to read the books themselves. Kids decided to treat the elephants better and not support the riding elephants, watch elephant show, etc.

students become inspired and purchasing medical packages would

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Purpose:

Work with PAWS (Pet Animal Welfare Society, Bangkok) to help cats in need. We volunteer,
Yuta, Bella, Lachlan, Catherine, Hayden, Amanda, Michelle and Olivia

fund-raise and raise awareness for this important cause Group leaders: Romi Percik, Phoebe Stephen, Noam Heller Teacher Mentors: Kristen Raymond, Gillian White

Bake Sale for Spaying/ Neutering

To raise awareness and money for PAWS, we had the bake sale. We baked cupcakes, cakes and other types of sweets and sold them for 30 THB in secondary and elementary lunch. The bake sale was a success, we raised over 10,000 THB! We also put up posters that said, I helped sponsor Ms. Julian the cat, and everyone that bought a sweet, signed their name to the poster. This way, everyone that bought sweets, knew what their money was going towards.

December 12, 2012

Bake SaleVolunteering for Spaying/ at Neutering PAWS

PAWS for a purpose has been doing volunteering work at PAWS. For example: We have been visiting the kittens and playing around and socializing with them. We clean litter boxes. We have been learning about the work and cost and learning about the surgeries and vaccinations

1-2 December times a month 12, 2012

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March Movie Madness

We came up with this idea in November and decided that March would be a good month because it didnt have a holiday and it was far enough away that we could advertise the event and do plenty of organizing and planning. We decided to show movies every Friday for the month of March that featured animals as main characters. We also decided to make elementary students our target audience. We started by inviting year 4 through year 8 and then after many elementary parents asked us to open the event for younger students we did. In the end, we had students from EY through year 7 at the events. We took a loan from Ms. Kristen to buy snacks and so we didnt make much of a profit at the first movie, but the rest of the month was very profitable. We sold tickets each week after school and at the doorwe found that most students preferred to buy their tickets at the door. After the first week, we also discovered that the best place to advertise the movies was on the Elementary blog for parents. Over the course of this event, we also told people that we would happily accept donations and many people donated. We made sure to thank the people who came by posting a thank you in the elementary blog. Overall, we feel that this event was a big success for our group because we were very organized; the elementary students seemed to really enjoy themselves; and we really enjoyed ourselves too. In the end of the month, PAWS had an emergency where the water tank at the building broke and we decided to donate 10,000.00 THB from our profits to help fix it

March, 2013

International Hug Your Cat Day

PAWS encouraged people to hug their cats and send in a photo for International Hug your Cat Day. During secondary and elementary lunch, they hosted a booth where they sold pin buttons, stickers and baked goods to fundraise for PAWS. In addition, they brought in the famous Num for another kissing booth!

June 4, 2013

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PURPOSE: The mission of MushieMuhshie is to raise awareness about poaching in Thailand. Also, it is to raise funds for Freeland Foundation so that they can run their Surviving Together program, which supports a family so that they can stop poaching by growing mushrooms.
Group leaders: Am Chunnananda, Rawit Assamongkol Teacher Mentor: Teresa Tung

Maintaining our mushroom farm

The purpose is grow mushrooms on our campus and promote organic and local food. Also to sell the mushrooms for a profit and make our group more meaningful, so were not just fundraising. Also this helps us collaborate with EY. They are the ones in the future who can help us. We started the new farm by having K. Montri help us create new shelving. The new farm was funded by EY. We bought 500 mushrooms packs and started the farm in November right after our field trip. We took turns watering the farm with the EY (though they did a better job of watering). We harvested the mushrooms and sold them (but not consistently).

Year round

It involved participants from different year levels. It helped increase collaboration between us and EY. It didnt involve other people in the NIST community, except the few who bought mushrooms. Next year, wed like to bring back MushieMondays to sell them more formally. Also, we didnt connect with the beneficiaries directly.

It is environmentally conscious (we grow organic food). Its not a need from the beneficiaries, but it is a big part of the group. We chose to do this because our group has always had a farm. Its not very sustainable because the mushroom packs die easily (especially during holidays). We are also still in debt from it.

It had a big impact on the EYs, they were really connected. It had an impact on our group because its a big part of what we do. But, for now, it hasnt generated money to help the beneficiaries. It doesnt really impact people outside of our group right now.

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Trip to Freeland Mushroom Farm

We went to see the process of growing mushrooms on a big scale. We went to the FreeLAND farm and harvested mushrooms. Then we learned about how to grow them and made our mushroom packs. We got to eat some mushrooms (fried). Then we visited a family from the Surviving Together program.

November 27, 2012

We interacted directly with the people we benefit. The activity required collaboration between our group members. On us, it helped us learn a lot more and really got to see what we are supporting.

The action was necessary for the group to see what we have our group for. It helped our group but not necessarily the beneficiaries.

February, 2013 We designed the shirt and then took orders from the school. We placed the orders and Wit distributed the shirts.
There wasnt a lot of collaboration within the group for this event. There wasnt much required. It wasnt particularly meaningful for the group; it raised money but didnt really help our mission statement (in terms of raising awareness). We decided to sell t-shirts because last year we had some and it seemed like the community liked them. It ended up making money (about 2000THB). In the future, this event would be worth doing only if we charged more. The community said that the quality of the shirts were good and that the price was good. There wasnt a lot of profit, but we would have if we sold more. It didnt really increase the participants awareness of the issue. More people found out about MushieMushie, but not necessarily more about what we did or our purpose.

T-Shirt Sales

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To raise awareness about the impacts of shark fin soup not only on the health of consumers but also the marine ecosystem. Group leaders: Namsai Sethpornpong Teacher Mentors: Teresa Tung
In collaboration with other schools (ISB, ICS)

The group would go to different events to promote anti shark finning. These events include presentations at schools, conventions (Such as CITES or TDEX) and any other opportunities.

Namsai and Fah worked with student representatives of the Finfree campaign from various other schools such as ISB and BPS. During the servICE conference the representatives from each school all planned out school assemblies and promoting events. We also met Shark Guardians and worked with NGOs such as Change.org, Freeland Foundation, and Lovewildlife. We also had a rally event which several NIST students attended and walked around Bangkok in protests of shark fin soup. Several of our events were also featured in the media through newspapers such as Bangkok Post.

We simply knew that we wanted our cause to get across to the public. We actually received a lot of help from the FInFree group that wasnt in our school. The group itself would make up and organize events and ask us student ambassadors to help represent them. We also knew that we needed products and promotion, so whenever we could, we would set up booths and have people sign our pledge.

Im not certain whether or not we made a change, but the cause that we were advocating at CITES (Convention of International Trade of Endangered Species) in Bangkok was placing the Oceanic White Tip and Manta Ray on the endangered list, which would grant these species worldwide protection. Our aim at that time was to convince the Thai delegate to vote for this new list, and he did. FinFree Thailand started an online petition and received over five thousand signatures over a course of three days and the species are now protected by international law.

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Purpose: To empower and connect NIST service groups through an accountable loan and grant
system to take actions to enrich ourselves, our communities, and the world.
A full report from the NIST Development Bank may be found in the appendix.

NIST Development Bank is a student-led social entrepreneurship club, consisting of mainly Y12 & Y13 students. The bank advocates financial sustainability and accountability, by speeding-up the process of acquiring the funds required to take action, be it fundraising in student service groups, or starting-up costs for a small business. Service groups receiving funding in 2012-2013 are Kids Fighting Cancer, Footy for Friends, Peace Matunda Service Group, Dreams We Believe In, GreeNIST, Phaythai Baby home, and Habitat for Humanity. 8,000 THB grant for hair dressers

No Hair, No Problem

Footy for Friends T-shirt Fundraiser

5000THB loan to purchase t-shirts

Tape Our Teachers Matunda Run

900THB loan for duct tape

3665THB grant to purchase water

30,000THB loan to cover the costs for trip

Mercy Center Beach Trip

GreeNIST Rooftop Garden

14,520THB grant for start-up costs

Habitat For Humanity Summer Build

28,500THB loan for materials to build a house in Rayong

Phayathai Baby Home

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To educate secondary students and teachers about the service groups at NIST and get more people involved. Held on September 25th during the second half of House, the Service Fair featured 30+ service groups. Each service group had its own booth where service leaders and group members displayed information about their group and offered chances for people to sign up for groups or events. Students were given a passport in order to help them reflect on their experience and needed to get the passport signed by at least four service groups.

The fair allowed for service groups to connect with many secondary students, though oftentimes those connections were shallow as many students were only interested in getting their passports signed and didnt listen to all the information.

The fair didnt allow a chance for students to take action then and there. It was well-timed during the school year, but in future, we will change the format so that students listen to presentations, in order to engage them more.

The fair did not directly enrich the lives of any beneficiaries, but it did allow for students to find the causes that they were most passionate about. There were several groups who recruited new members or raised awareness.

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To inspire, connect, and empower students from Bangkok/Pattaya schools to enrich the world. Teacher Mentors: Teresa Tung Andy Dorn Jennilea Hortop Student Participants:
Shannon Tanwani, Namsai Sethpornpong, Jamie Sriya, Am chunnananda, Kendya Goodman, Sila Puh, Adele Birkenes, Joy Kim, Paul Keen, Romi Percik, Bos Chitwannapa, Sarika Bhatt, Irene Laochaisri, Ally Christensen, Zeyu Hu, Moe Haneda, Ellis Cox-Mcallister, Iwa Foorungsriroj, Anya Srikureja

The second annual Bangkok ServICE Conference was held at Thai-Chinese International School after the inaugural conference at NIST last school year. Over the course of three days, students participated in service learning opportunities around Bangkok, attended and presented How To sessions designed to teach one another about how to run service events, listened to inspirational keynote speakers and planned collaborative events with other schools. Notably, Sarika Bhatt gave one of the student keynote speeches regarding the stigma around HIV/AIDS.

As always, the Bangkok ServICE Conference provided a great chance for students and teachers to connect with likeminded leaders from other schools and share ideas. .

As a result of the Conference, students collaborated together in several initiatives, including the Youth Ecological Network and the FinFree Thailand Campaign. Many schools have also sought information about the NIST Development Bank to replicate in their own schools.

On the first day of the Conference, students had the option of participating in a Service Learning Day, during which students volunteered at the Mercy Center, helped build a house with Habitat for Humanity and planted mangroves with Plant a tree Today.

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Purpose: To sponsor the education of hill tribe students at the government-run Mae Lid School.
The Mae Lid School is supported by the Mae Lid service project as well as the House program at NIST. Annually, toiletries and blankets are collected to be distributed at the Mae Lid School, this being the 5th year of donations. In addition, each House at NIST sponsors a specific student at the Mae Lid School for his/her education. The cost of education for one child is 6,000THB. Fundraising events through House this year have included: Red House: Rose Sale, Back to School Dance, Movie Night Orange House: Halloween Dance Blue House: Sale of Karen crafts at the MYP Graduation Ceremony This year, House representatives delivered the collected toiletry items, along with the scholarship money to the school and spent 3 days, 2 nights with the community. While there, representatives met the students whom we sponsor and interviews potential new students to sponsor. Representatives also taught English lessons and made home visits to the students. In total, the House program raised a total of 46,867THB for education sponsorships.

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PURPOSE: NIST H4H works with Habitat for Humanity Thailand to enrich the quality of life for those who do not have stable shelter in Thailand.
Group Leader: Ja Eun Kim Teacher Mentors: Allison Coutts and David Garcia Fernandez

Elementary Sleep Out

The Habitat Elementary Sleep-out was targeted to the year 6 students, so that they are able to feel empathy towards homeless people who live on the streets and sleep on cardboards. Also, this event not only raised awareness about homelessness, but also generated funds to support our upcoming summer build.
This event was run as a continuous event from last years elementary sleepout. The student leaders and teachers collaborated and prepared the event The event raised awareness about homelessness, which is the main purpose of our group. The materials used for the game were recycled Next time, we will try to involve more year levels in the elementary students for a wider participation, and we might try to contact one of the house owners who benefited through habita.. The event was successful; the kids who came learned a valuable experience and we raised over 60,000 baht. The games and the house building should be repeated if it were to be run again. The Year 6s gave us feedback after the sleep-out that they were able to experience how the homeless people feel when they are living on the streets,.

In addition, Habitat for Humanity also hosted: - A Secondary Sleepout (similar in nature to the elementary sleep out) - A Mama Noodle and Brick sale to raise money for the summer build Ultimately, the summer build did not occur with students as not enough participants signed up; however, all the money fundraised was donated to Habitat for Humanity in order to buy materials for the designated house in Rayong. 32 | P a g e

PURPOSE: The mission of this service group is to raise awareness about the importance of education by raising funds and awareness about Peace Matunda school and orphanage.
Rachel, Maddy, Julie, Arshiya, Samantha, Elida, Ping-ko, Erika, Aylin, Surach, Rhea, Rosana, Ale, Tas, Maddy, Avi, Jx, Group leaders: Ally Christensen, Anya Srikrueja Teacher Mentors: Matt Manfredi, Jennilea Hortop Angus, Lexi, ellis, Natasha, Kira and Romi

Tanzania Culture Day

Tanzania Culture day is a lunch time event held in November. The day started with students in the group holding posters of culture day and welcoming everyone into the school with African and kswahili music on. Donations were given throughout the day to students who were in charge of the donation box we made. By lunch time, the oval and booths were decorated with Tanzanian flags and backgrounds. The different booths we had set up were for food (Tanzanian chips maya dish) and lemonade, a photo booth with a backdrop of the Tanzanian flag, a face-painting booth, bracelet making and selling booth and a cupcake booth. While students and teachers purchased food and drinks or any of the photo or bracelet activities, everyone enjoyed the music played by volunteered singers, the choir and the marimba band.

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I believe culture day is an opportunity for students at NIST can have a first-hand sense of what like being in the Tanzania Service Group and what we do. The purpose of this event was predominately to advertise our service group and share the culture and personal experiences with the school. This allows any student who is willing to join and teachers who are willing to gain more knowledge about what we do. This event creates a connection between our community and the community of Peace Matunda. Students at NIST benefit from learning more about education in different countries and the life of students who are just like them outside Thailand. African culture is very different to Thai culture which we are all familiar with. So just bringing a sense of Africa and the food and culture there can benefit our community and how we look at the importance of helping others who come from a different part of the world. This event is also very sustainable as there are many students in the service group who attending the trip this year and will be returning to the service group next year so they will have more knowledge and ideas about the culture in Tanzania to share back in our own community. This event also emphasized the importance of educating our community about our service group and our goals. Our community may understand that raising money for unprivileged children to go to school is significant however we believe it is more than that.

The culture and experience the students gain from the trip is also very significant and therefore culture allows us to share our goals, experiences and achievements with the community We do this by having a lunch time event at the oval where there is music playing which usually is music associated with Africa for example the marimba group and the choir who sang lion king songs. The food that we sold which were from Tanzania were banana fritters, which are one of the many things people do in Tanzania with bananas, and their famous national dish called chips mayai. Cupcakes with flags containing Swahili words were also sold. Students were able to read which word they got and see the meaning of the world. We also incorporated some activities where students were able to be very engaged with the event and the celebration. These activities included a face painting, performances and photo booth. In the morning we also introduce Culture Day to the school by standing in front of the gate and play African as well as Tanzanian songs. This also contributed financially to our service group as many people donated money in the donation boxes. We believe Tanzania Culture day was a great success. Each year we try to bring as much culture from Tanzania as possible and share it with NIST. More students this year definitely were asking more questions about our service group as we had many displays on the day about Tanzania Service . Students also spent time looking at the images displayed on the

bulletin boards which were photos of Peace Matunda and our Service group with the kids and what we did in Tanzania. I believe Tanzania Culture day is a great way to promote and advertise our service group and what we do to NIST. It is also an opportunity for us to raise some funds for education purposes for Peace Matunda. We believe this event has impacted the group members individually as we had to investigate about the different cultures and foods from Tanzania that we wanted to share with NIST and it gave a good idea for members about what more this Service Group brings to our school. The majority of the group has not been to Tanzania yet and being apart and organizing Culture Day has made them more aware of what lies ahead and what they will be experiencing. In addition, I believe it has allowed others in the group to realize that we can create a global effect on our local actions. In addition, this impacts the students and teachers at our school who are participating in the event as they are increasing their own knowledge about the needs of others who live in a different continent and country. Ultimately, this will impact the kids and school we are helping as we are bringing back enthusiastic NIST students who are open to new experiences and adventures

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Stationery Drive
When keeping in touch with Kaaya, the founder of Peace Matunda, he mentions the monthly wish list of Peace Matunda and the upcoming projects that they are wishing to start up or finish up. In addition to visiting Peace Matunda last year, Kaaya also confirmed that a great necessity at their school for the education, stationery is needed. Therefore instead of initially having a shoe drive, we have changed it into a stationery drive where we have asked students/ parents/ teachers to donate either bas, pencil cases or stationery equipment at the front gate of the school for an entire week. Stationery or any other items that were donated would be collected from around the homeroom. We also accepted school bags.

April 8th-12th, 2013

Students and adults of NIST were responsible for the amount of stationary that was being donated to Peace Matunda at the end This event could be sustainable however it may not be run next year for Peace Matunda specifically because this year there was a special offer for a Stationery drive from the founder of Peace Matunda and next year it doesnt necessarily mean that there needs to be one again. However this event could be taken over by any other service group that wishes to collect unused yet appropriate stationery

Was financially sustainable as there was no cost to it- however only issue was bringing it across the world to Tanzania Any other group interested in doing this event has to take into account how to transport the mass amount of stationery or other stuff donated Service leaders got together and assigned group members to collect boxes at the end and the stationary was then sorted into large duffle bags that were donated by others (because of the stationery drive).

Founder of Peace Matunda was very thankful for this drive because it was something that they did need We brought more than enough stationary a long which could help Peace Matunda in the long term. We have also created a system of using stationary at Peace Matunda where students have to ask teachers permission to take a new pen/pencil/ruler/etc otherwise the use of the stationery would be out of control which was the problem in the past which led them to not having enough stationery.

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November 26, 2013 The purpose of this event was to help NIST sell the old house shirts as there were 800 left over. Therefore the shirts that were bought by the nist kids during this sale were donated to the students at Peace Matunda as they also have a house system but without any shirts or uniform. During school lunch our service group set up a booth next to the NIPTA barbeque where we sold over 200 house shirts. Instead of throwing them all away all the service groups at nist have decided to come together and sell the shirts/ ask the nist community to donate 250 baht for a shirt for a student at peace Matunda or any other service group. We needed 250 house shirts for all students and staff at the school of Peace Matunda.
This event will be only run once as the purpose was to get rid of a bunch of old house shirts and most likely wont come across this problem again. Nevertheless this event was successful as we raised enough money to buy 250 house shirts for the students at Peace Matunda. However, we had support from the NIPTA barbeque. I believe this event could have been better planned by selling the shirts throughout the week rather than one day because many students didnt have enough money to donate and purchase a shirt on the day therefore they had to collaborate with a group of friends to put together their money to make up for 1 purchase. There were still many students that didnt understand why they had to be purchased instead of just donated which could have been better explained if the event was throughout the week instead of one day. On the day we set up our booth by the NIPTA booth so students who finished buying their food would come by our booth. Every person who contributed signed their name on a small shirt and pasted it on their name on our poster. I believe this idea of writing names on a small mini shirt and pasting it on the poster really allowed students and teachers to be engaged in the activity. The idea of writing names on a poster made kids want to be a part of the cause. I thought this issue of getting rid of the shirts was an opportunity to bring together the nist community and peace Matunda community together as they were directly purchasing shirts for a student at the school. Each student/teacher/parent got to sign their name as a mark for contributing to the cause which has linked this event with the rest of the community of NIST even more. This event definitely was beneficial to both communities as we helped NIST get rid of an abundance of old shirts by purchasing it for other students in a different school, city, country and hemisphere. I believe this was an example of global interactions between our community here and peace Matunda as we got to physically deliver the shirts and give them out to the student body and staff members at Peace Matunda. Overall it was very successful because thanks to help with NIPTA we raised enough money to buy 250 shirts for Peace Matunda.

T-shirt Sales

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Matunda Run
The purpose of this event was to raise funds for projects and facilities at Peace

February 9th, 2013

Matunda School and orphanage. At the moment, the Tanzania Service Group is sponsoring 6 unprivileged children who cant afford peace Matunda, to go to school and a lunch program of all 250 elementary students are peace Matunda School by using the funds we have raised. However each year Peace Matunda has new goals and projects which help develop the education and facilities for the students and orphans The Matunda Run was held on a Saturday morning in February at Benjakiti Park. Over the past months a group of students in the Tanzania Service Group took initiative and worked together to organize the fun run; an open event for everyone: students from NIST and other schools, parents, elementary students and teachers! In the Matunda Run, 210 individuals took part in the event and contributed to the funds that will be going to these projects at Peace Matunda. On the day shirts, drinks and food were sold to celebrate the event. The fun run was a major success as over 200 participants contributed to the funds which were raised that added up to 56,000 baht. This is enough to cover both the lunch program and the sponsorships for the 6 students.

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Last year was the first year Matunda Run was held and this year through our persistent collaboration and communication with organizers of the park and with each other, we were able to make the event a lot more successful this year. Since November the Matunda run was planned at each stage in terms of advertising, contacting the park, providing food and drinks and selling the tickets. Anya and I organized this event by allocating jobs for groups of students within the large group and this method of organizing an event is very effective especially if the event is expected to be run by future leaders of peace Matunda. The main connection this event had was within the group and through organizing the event. During the process the logistics group had to work hard to be able to get the parks permission to have this event there I believe we made this a very successful event as it was financially sustainable and culturally important which ultimately made it a suitable event to raise funds for Peace Matunda. Part of our aim for this service group is to raise awareness about the importance of education and to support the school and orphanage of Peace Matunda in order to make the lives of unprivileged children better. The money raised is primarily to renew the sponsorships for 6 students at peace Matunda School and the school lunch program. Other funds also contribute to providing resources such as stationary, sports equipment, class room materials etc. In order to make the event possible we split up into smaller groups which

were designated specific jobs. We had a team that was in charge of providing drinks and food which had to stay under the budget of 5000 baht because our group spoke with development bank and they agreed to cover the payment of 5000 baht so we could raise as much profit as possible for peace Matunda. We got sponsorships for people to provide free fruit and water through parents that volunteered to sponsor. Another team was in charge of logistics where they had to contact the park and ask permission to have an event which was a very long and formal process. Another group advertised the event by creating posters, going around to classes and selling tickets and putting the event in the notices. Another group was in charge of designing and creating shirts to sell for the event. After all the group work was finished, we broke up into 2 groups on the day of the run, a morning group and a late morning where the early morning group would come and be in charge of setting up the event while the late morning group is in charge of staying at the event and cleaning the event up. Overall we, the students, took full responsibility of advertising, booking the park, selling tickets, providing food and drinks, selling shirts and setting up the event at the park on the day. The only money used for the run was for the food which we sold and were covered by development bank and the shirts which we sold and gained profit from. Therefore this made the event financially suitable as none of us had to spend our own money on the

event unless we decided to sponsor. I believe the run was suitable for the time frame as it was a fun run which last from 7-1pm as most fun runs are held in the mornings so it is not so hot for the runners. It was definitely enough time for different sorts of runners to come throughout the day and run as many laps as they wish. The funds that we raised from this event will definitely help the children at Peace Matunda as a lot of the money we raise goes towards the basic needs a school requires. Unequivocally our funds will benefit the projects that we sponsor at Peace Matunda such as the lunch program and sponsorships. However, this event has also made an impact on our service group as organizers. This event took a lot of organization and collaboration to be able to make it successful and I think everyone in the group got the feel of what organizations have to do in order to make a fund raiser or project effective. As a member of the group I definitely learnt more about how to keep charge of everyones rolls and keeping up to date. Meeting deadlines is usually a struggle for many and I had to make sure group members were doing so. As a leader I could see students taking responsibility and showing initiative and I think this event has really taught them to become organized and passionate about the service group. For example, some group members volunteered to go over to elementary and make invitations to invite them to the fun run and this made over 60 elementary students participate as well as their family members

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Visit to Peace Matunda

The purpose of this trip was mainly to visit the school and orphanage of Peace Matunda that we have been supporting and funding for the last entire year. It is also really important for students to have a first-hand experience on a type a trip that is very different to every other service trip. Students get to experience the change of language, traditions and cultures and we grow as individuals where the distance of travel and the setting around allows us to learn, develop and grow. The other purpose would also to create lifelong experiences/memories and relationships with the kids and people at Peace Matunda. The whole Tanzania Service project is based on this trip as it was created so that students from NIST can travel across the world to learn and contribute towards a cause in need. The Tanzania trip consisted of 4 teachers and 16 students and was a 10 day trip over the Songkran break. It is hard to describe how the trip went but there are definitely some key moments and events during the trip that are worth mentioning. The trip allows all students and teachers to live in Peace Matundas volunteer house and live in a different type of environment and culture, away from social media and technology. For 10 days students spend time with the kids at Peace Matunda and during the school days become assistant teachers at the school. There are some days where students will work all day at the school either assisting a class, organizing and running a class or activity or working with Jackie (head of school) on improving school facilities. Each day the group has planned to do some sort of worth wild activity such as the Safari trip, visiting the secondary school next to peace Matunda, visiting the international school of Moshi, visiting local families and houses around Mount Meru and visiting the UN court in Arusha. Throughout the trip students experience a trip of a lifetime by stepping out of their comfort zones and learning more about the culture and environment about them. Students have the opportunity to learn Kshwaheli, taste the exotic foods Tanzania has to offer and to get exposure to a different environment and culture.

April 12th April 21, 2013

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The Tanzania trip has been running for 3 years now and so far it has been extremely successful in terms of creating an impact not only on Peace Matunda but on the NIST students who go to Tanzania. The combination of being away from technology and home, being in a different culture and environment, being so close to nature, seeing what and experiencing and physically seeing what poverty is really is, students as well as teachers, learn so much more about the world and themselves much more than sitting in a classroom. The concept of physically placing yourself in a different country and environment setting really allows students and teachers to collaborate, communicate and learn from each other better. I believe that this Tanzania trip is a once in a lifetime opportunity for 2 main reasons. It is beneficial for Peace Matuda as we are physically helping them at the school as well as through the funds and awareness we raise throughout the year. In addition, it is also a valuable experience for students to step outside their comfort zones to grow and to learn in a totally different way. This trip is sustainable only if student leaders are able to prepare and organize a group of students and teachers who are passionate and willing to take action here in Thailand and travel half way around the world to experience a trip of a lifetime to support and community. A significant part of this service group is raising funds for Peace Matunda throughout the year so our actions can really benefit them when we go and visit during the spring. Our actions before the trip are important to raising enough funds to help Peace Matunda. Our actions during the trip are also very important.

During the trip we help build or change facilities around the school. For example last year we organized and sorted out an entire library for the school to use. This year we were given the opportunity to teach full length classes in all different age groups from baby class to 6 grade. This is an example of taking action because not only are we teacher students about certain subjects but we are using materials and techniques which the students at peace Matunda have never been exposed to. By using our knowledge and understanding of the topics, NIST students work cooperatively to create fun and exciting lessons for students at peace Matunda where they can truly benefit from. Not only do the students benefit but also the teachers. The teachers at the school also learn from the techniques we use to teach a lesson. For example: group work, presenting to the class, drawing and colouring and other activities that students are not use to. The activities that we wish to do during our trip are planned primarily to have fun, and to create amazing learning experiences for both NIST students and Peace Matunda students. Other actions such as physically building/organizing stuff at the school are taken when the assistance is needed by a large amount of kids like us NIST students, to do the labour. Overall our actions are culturally appropriate because learning outcomes and relationships created after the course of 1 week is ineffable. The two-way understanding between two
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completely different cultures, languages, ages and people through spending quality time and doing service is extremely significant. As stated before, this trip has a great impact on both Peace Matunda kids and NIST students as a valuable learning experience is due to the combination of associating two different types of people (age, culture, language) together. In terms of a service project, we believe that the Tanzania trip is beneficial towards the community because not only do they learn from the knowledge that we bring to Peace Matunda but they have benefited from the physical help that we bring in terms of organizing the library, creating activities for the students to do during sport day, etc. The trip has helped others increase their awareness on the importance of education and what service is all about. Many believe that donating money is enough to change a community but after this trip students learn that it is changing the way a system works or helping a community physically and mentally. This trip is a great example of how a community can help a poorer and less privileged community half way across the world.

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PURPOSE: The mission of ISARA is to raise awareness Human Trafficking and aid the people who have been through this process. Group leaders: Irene Laochaisri, Zeyu Hu Teacher Mentors: Raymond Normand, Andy Dorn
Yuli Percik, Shannon Tanwani, Hermen Furberg, Alana Fernandes, Prabneet Doowa, Jina Ratanavanh, Sasicha Peechapol, Natasha Sachatheva, Jina Wang Huang, Kushaan Chavada, Reya Lamsam, Shalini Hadpawat, Crystal Christopher, Pam Vuntanadit, Emily Teerasuphaset, JR Ombregt, Alice Poutiainen

Trips to ATCC
To establish a connection between the children at ATCC and help them as a whole in our future programs and events. Using the time of iChoice, trips are planned to go to Pattaya to an Anti-Human Trafficking centre. At this centre, we play with the kids and try to establish a closer relationship with them.

Year round

This activity had quite some connection between student and teachers. As this is a student run trip, it was up to the student leaders to actually organize the buses and chaperones for each trip with the help from Khun Mee of course. At the centre, a collaboration between the students and the children at the centre. This will be something that can and will be continued next year as the relationship we have is very important. However it is not very sustainable as we live in Bangkok and them in Pattaya and there is a long drive between the two cities.

We decided that we just needed to raise awareness about this issue. Not everyone is aware of what is happening right now and as this is a very local issue, we think that more people must know about it. We arent very environmentally conscious as the drive to Pattaya can cause lots of damage to the environment so that is something we will work on next year.

The impact that we created was that, the children know that there are actually people that care about them, giving them hope. Hope I believe is important to these children who has experienced something that is unthinkable. Once being at the centre, we really understand what the children needs and this can only be done being at the centre itself.

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Loco for Cocoa

Selling fair trade chocolate on Valentines day to spread love and raise awareness about the issue that we support.

February, 2012

There was a lot of collaboration between students as this was

As our event is about raising awareness, there isnt a lot of money that is made out

Our activity brought people much more aware of the things they buy and

completely a student ran

event. Irene and Emily did quite a lot of work to make everything right. Distributing chocolate and ordering them was all done in our free time. This is a start of a new tradition that will continue to happen for the years to come.

of it. The only money we

made was around 400 baht. Our event could however be much more environmental conscious as we have to ship the chocolate from Australia because there isnt any fair trade chocolate that is sold

where it came from. It

definitely increased the awareness of the issue within people as every bag of chocolate had a little fact sheet. We did think about the global situation and acted locally within our community.

locally.

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PURPOSE: To support the NGO, located near the Burmese border, which provides outreach and on-site programs to support education and shelter for vulnerable stateless Karen and Hmong people. Group leaders: Isabel Hahn, Cherry Sirisomboonwong, Nern Siriwat Teacher Mentors: John Hoare, John Bellamy, Teresa Tung
Vanessa Bothra, Louise Dubois, Chiara Erfurt, Irin Foorungsriroj, Iwa Foorungsririroj, Sheralyn Koh, Christopher Kruger, Chrisophe Meyer, Lieke Rouwers, Hina Yamada

In the fourth year of this service group, we had 2 events. First was a clothes drive which we went around different home rooms and classes from elementary and secondary to tell them to bring used or new extra clothes they have to donate to the project. This activity lasted for 1 week to collect all the clothes. The second event was a trip up to the project, it was with 14 year 10 students and 3 teachers who participated in joining and to go see what the project looks like and is about also to what their efforts are putting in to. As well as to play and have a connection to the kids.

It did because in order for the activity to be like happening we need permission and guidance from the adults, and the participants and the beneficiaries did collaborate a lot because we work to give them what they are in need of. In the service group there are 14 year 10 students overall and 1 teacher to overlook the group, but for the clothes drive we conducted included students from elementary to secondary as well as teachers. Yes the activity is sustainable.

We decided what to do by first asking the organizations leader which is tom; we emailed him asking what the project is in need. Later we decided on the most appropriate item we could raise and donate to the organization. The activity was based on actual needs as we asked Tom before every activity organized and use his information to do our activity. Our activity is environmentally conscious as when we delivered the clothes it took a bus which the students went up with reducing the oil as 2 trips wasnt taken up. The activities were culturally appropriate.

The trips we visit up to the project made a difference to the kids, as we are in contact with them and have a connection with the kids as we are there playing and giving them our attention. It does not enrich the entire world but it enriches the sanklabruis community and the Children of the Forest organization. , By just having a service group and clothes drive creating more awareness but the main part was going up to the organization with the students as they experience the connection with the kids and see what they put their efforts in for.

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To celebrate inspirational women and raise awareness of the importance of girls education in gender equality and benefitting communities.
Planning Committee: Teresa Tung; Irene Laochaisri; Jill Bellamy; Mim (Pornpiya) Tejapaibul; Kira Bernhard; Mayuko Kanno; Jacqueline De Segonzac; Ploy (Praopan) Kambhu Na Ayudhaya; Aradhana Sachdev; Ricky (Thirathep) Sethi; Petch (Achari) Kambhu Na Ayudhaya ; Lana Mahmoud; Spun Kongsirituwong; Sila Puhl; Kristen Raymond; Moa Lyth Brand; Michelle Vogel; Allison Coutts; Beth Golatzki

Women Inspire, Girls Rise was the theme of NISTs celebration of International Womens Day on March 8th. Leading up to the event, a timeline of womens achievement was posted in the secondary stairwell. On womens day, girls attended an assembly to hear about inspirational women and learn about the inequalities girls still face around the world, as well as the organization Children of the Forest and their work with mothers and girls education. Boys had extended homeroom where they watched a video explaining the purpose of IWD; boys in years 7-9 had a quiz about misconceptions regarding gender differences and boys in years 10-12 discussed why there is an International Womens Day. During lunch, a special Music Box dedicated to women was held, and students were able to sign an IWD banner and make pledges of how to support women and girls. In addition, t-shirts were sold and worn to show support of the cause. In total, 25,095THB was raised for Children of the Forest.

There was collaboration between students from several year levels and teachers to plan the event. More input could have been sought from other staff members and students, though the committee was open to all.

Children of the Forest was consulted to determine the needs to girls education, that it costs 12,000THB for one years worth of education. The event certainly raised awareness of gender equality and sparked conversations about the need for the day.

Enough funds were generated to sponsor the education of two girls for a full year. These funds were given to the organization during the Children of the Forest service groups trip to the organization a month later.

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PURPOSE: The mission of the year 7 Community & Service challenge was to help NIST look after each other. Each houseroom took on a project to help make NIST a more positive environment.
Year 7 Homeroom teachers: Ms. Susan and K. Chaweewan; Mr. Will and Ms. Hiromi; Mr. Ivan and Mr. Sergio; Ms. Kristen and Mr. David; Ms. Stephanie; Ms. Helen

Yellow House make NIST laugh

To put a smile on everyones faces and make NIST a happier place. We have 3 different activities (1) Put a funny video on the daily notices once a cycle, (2) Post small joke cards in students lockers once a cycle (3) Display jokes around the school.

This is an entirely studentled activity. The students took the initiative to find, print and distribute the jokes. The funny video group needed K. Chaweewan to send their video to K. Am every cycle. Each video is discussed among students in the group before a decision is made each cycle.

Groups were set up for the 3 activities. Within the groups students assigned roles and sign up sheets. Agreement was needed before any jokes are used/put up. Students think there is a need as people always need cheering up. It might not be very environmentally conscious putting up all the paper for the jokes to be displayed. Jokes were always shared with the teachers before being sent out or displayed so cultural appropriateness is always vetted.

We are not sure of the impact that our activity had. We think that it might have brought a smile to some peoples faces and maybe brightened their days so it might have had a local impact rather than a global one.

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Blue House Positive Messages

Y7 Blue students created posters which had positive messages on them relating to beauty & staying positive, accompanied them with images, printed them out and placed them in bathroom stalls on all floors in the secondary building. Most of the posters are still there!

Students collaborated with each other to come up with messages and create the posters. There was little connection with adults other than the HR teachers. The activity did not invite participation from the NIST community, but students have had positive comments from people who saw the posters and read them, so there was a connection with the beneficiaries. The activity could be sustainable, in that there could be a focus on different types of messages, at different times of the year, placed in different areas, but we did not have time to do this (e.g. positive messages for Y12s & 13s around exam time)

The students felt that they wanted to take action with spreading positive messages because they felt that this is always a need at NIST, especially for Year 7s starting middle school with worries, etc. They chose to print poster and post them bathrooms, as they felt this would reach students in a unique and more long-lasting way (something different from digital which comes and goes). Even though they used paper, they chose not to laminate the posters so that they would be more environmentally friendly. It was financially sustainable and culturally appropriate.

Y7 Blue acted locally to spread positive messages in the secondary school. It is difficult to judge the impact which they had with their posters, although the fact that theyre mostly still up and being seen daily is a good thing. We think they enriched individual lives with little doses of happiness, and comments from individuals showed us some of the impact this may have had.

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Green House Appreciation Display

To promote messages of appreciation within the NIST community specifically targeted at Year 7 students. Messages of appreciation about year 7 students were displayed on different themed display boards in the corridor in front of the IT Zone.

There was a reasonable amount of collaboration amongst the homeroom group. At times a bit more student initiative was required but possibly with more time, then this could a more student sustained activity. The most positive aspect of this initiative was the level of community involvement. The applause came from the community and was viewed by them.

We decided to develop an appreciation display for the NIST community specifically aimed at Year 7 students. We asked year 7 students to leave anonymous messages of applause for their peers that would be placed on the display board. The display was as environmentally sustainable as possible. We used off cuts of coloured paper where possible but we did need to make new copies of the messages. All paper was recycled once the display was dismantled.

Our appreciation displays had a positive impact on the school community. They were very visible and this ensured that people engaged with them. As each new theme was added I feel that there was an increase in the amount of appreciation within the community.

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Red House reading to EY

We went to the EY center and read age-appropriate childrens books to small groups of EY students to encourage a love of reading in EY students and to make them want to read more.

We had to collaborate with the school librarian to find appropriate books to read and we had to collaborate with the EY teachers to coordinate a schedule for when we could come to read. We collaborated well because at first we planned to write our own childrens book, but then we discussed it and decided it would be better to focus on the reading part of the plan, so we checked out books from the library instead. The EY students were very engaged with the reading, they would interrupt and ask questions and make statements about the stories, which shows that they were highly engaged.

The class had the idea based on a project that they had completed in year 6 and they felt strongly that they would like to continue with this project. The project was based on the class approaching EY teachers and offering to come in and read. The project was financially sustainable because we checked books out of the library and therefore did not spend any money. The books were selected from the library and we focused on age-appropriate books rather than culturally appropriate books maybe this is something that could be considered if this project continues next year.

Our activity helped increase the enthusiasm of the EY students for reading. You could see that the students were more interested and engaged. Year 7 students got to practice a unique skill: reading aloud. It allowed us to collaborate and work with the younger students: it made us feel as though we were giving something back to the school community. In this way, we definitely acted locally.

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Purple House - PositiveNIST

Purple House did a PositiveNIST campaign in order to bring happiness and a positive atmosphere to NIST. By using their photography skills and using word play to think of positive words that could end with NIST, Purple House created positive posters to display around the school. Below is a sample:

Initially the entire class worked on the activity, finding images, suggesting word, and posting the posters. Time ran out and we were not able to revisit the activity as much as we would have liked. The only participation from the NIST community was to view the posters and the blog images. This activity is sustainable if there is enough time given to revisit.

The decision to launch the PositiveNIST campaign was made by a class vote after a number of suggestions were made. Our main goal was to get the word out to the community and not much attention was given to environmental, financial or cultural issuesother than fostering a positive culture/environment.

Generally, our class liked the activity and, we assume from the immediate feedback, that people enjoyed and appreciated the images. Overall, though, we think this is part of a bigger picture. NIST needs to try many options to improve the overall feel of the school. Many people do not acknowledge others as they pass in the halls. This still needs to be addressed.

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Orange House Green plants around NIST

Orange House greened NIST by making pots from recycled material, growing plants from cuttings and delivering the fruits of our labour to selected classrooms.

This project was aimed at connectedness. We connected the NIST community by providing it with natural value. We value added by providing oxygen producing plants and aesthetics with a beautifully decorated pots. We were very lucky to get planting advice from Mr Grimmer. As a group we each brought in milk bottles and samples of plants from home. Our house teachers helped us cut the pots into shape. They also encouraged us to stick to the timeline. The teachers (beneficiaries) which received our plants were excited to receive them and said they brightened up their classrooms/offices. The delivery of plants to each classroom does not just benefit the main beneficiary, but anybody which comes into vicinity of the plant.

Overall we think this project As a group we noticed that the NIST will have a long term effect community has a limited spaced for on NIST. Plants regenerate oxygen and the also provide a sense of wellbeing. It is difficult to measure the success of a project in terms of community participation. But we would hope that those who are in classrooms or offices with our pot plants consider their benefits and be inspired to green their homes and other classrooms. There is a wide scope for future development. We hope to build on this project next year and spread its message to the elementary building, or we the natural environment. Seizing on this aspect of our discussion we came up with this very adventurous idea. By using recycled materials such as milk cartons and donated plant material we know that we made a very sustainable program. One of the small impacts our project had is that we all got to work with plants. As a team we learnt about planting and growing. It also gave us an opportunity to connect with family members, such as grandparents who helped us chose appropriate planting material. On a grander scheme our project highlighted the insufficient green plants in school classrooms. We think our project clearly enriches the world. For example we have planted and cultured over twenty plants which will use carbon dioxide

are considering passing the to make energy. The long term effect idea onto Orange House of this could be seen in reducing Year 7 2013/2014. climate change. Overall our project, projected connectedness. To summarise this project was local but will have global consequences.

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PURPOSE: The mission of the year 9 Community & Service project is for each houseroom to take on a project that will help make Bangkok a more sustainable city. Three houses addressed environmental issues here on campus and three houses addressed humanitarian issues by working with an off-campus
Year 9 Houseroom teachers: Natalie Lindon (Green), Allison Coutts and Val McCubbin (Red), Annie Millard (Orange), Laddawan Koomrob and Saengkae Chaichanavong (Purple), Philip Branston (Yellow), Lana Mahmoud (Blue)

Yellow House GreeNIST Gardening

Yellow House worked on the rooftop garden in order to learn about urban farming as a solution for growing more sustainable cities.

Purple House Vertical Gardening

To make NIST a greener space and to use less space in the process It was also to show the students that it is important to know where our food comes from. In purple house, we experimented with different vertical structures and once we found the most suitable one, we planted seeds in them. Then, we continuously, watered and took care of them.
We were invited to plant vegetables and herbs in a vertical manner. We had to create the pot and stand for the vegetables and herbs to grow on as well as planting the seeds.

By creating plants, we learned many things although not everything went as it was supposed to go because our plant resulted in being cut off.

The impact from our activity is that we learn that it is important to know where our food comes from. We also learnt how to grow vegetables in a sustainable manner, taking up less space in this sprawling metropolis.

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Red House Green Wall

After drafting elaborate green living walls with words and stunning plant designs Year 9 RED House gathered concrete plantar boxes, wire, lengths of thin bamboo, sacks of dirt and seedlings. They then made a triangle lattice for the seedlings to grow up onto. The purpose was to: (1) beautify areas of NIST that were unattractive and in the public eye; (2) experiment in responsibility with gardening; and (3) work collaboratively to do something positively.

The students appeared to enjoy working together on this project although several did not like getting dirty. Almost all had never done anything like this before.

Students actually MADE the bamboo frames (sawing the right size and wiring together the frames for the plants to grow up on.

I do not know what impact these plantar boxes have had upon the students or the community. The green-ness is nice but not something I have heard anyone comment upon.

Green House Good Shepherd Sisters

Green House visited Good Shepherd Sisters, run by the Fatima Center, and visited the day care center. Students then decided to create a basketball tournament fundraiser in order to raise funds to buy stationery. Green House then visited the center one more time with some representatives from the houseroom.
We just had an idea and it was the right situation to have this activity to raise money for GSS. The activity was based on the needs of the GSS that needed stationary so this was good. It was conscious but it was not purposeful. It was not financially sustainable because if no one comes to watch we make no money. Teachers to coach and supervise so we needed to collaborate with them. Participants were year 9 to play basketball. Beneficiaries were GSS. It invited quite a bit of NIST community participation as the middle school were invited to come watch. It could be done next year but needs better promotion. The event needs to be better organised with more time and maybe have more year levels involved. It could be over a week and have a tournament.

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Blue House Concordia Welfare Center

Blue House visited the Concordia Day Care Center in order to: Play with little kids at the day-care center whose parents needed to work. Ask the people in charge about the place, their needs and how we can help support them. To become aware of the needs of children in the community.

We went there only once and therefore it would be better if we went a few times to connect better. It would have been more effective if we had prepared activities before we went there. We could take them on field trips to connect more with them. We connected during the visit but not after. We brainstorm ways to fundraise for the center. We called them to get a better picture as to what they needed and all they said was that they ended money for education.

We sent the service committee a proposal to fundraise through bake sales and activities, it was first accepted but then we were sent an email to have a more realistic goal and have activities that matched our purpose for fundraising. W e were a little disappointed and then thought that instead of students paying us for the activities and bake sale with money, that they pay us with educational utensils such as pencils and rulers. But we did not go through with it because we each had assessments and a lot of homework at that time.

Because we went there one time and only spent an hour there, we did not feel that it was quite effective. Maybe schedule the activity when we did not have a lot of responsibilities and assignments so that we could have more time to schedule something maybe not so late in the school year.

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Orange House Phayathai Baby Home

We visited the orphanage and talked to the psychiatrist and played with the babies. It was clear that the children needed stimulation. We decided to take a small group to the water park and establish a one on one relationship with the intention of maintaining and developing this in the new year. The trip enriched both the babies life and ours. As a result we have all identified our own child and started to develop a relationship.

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PURPOSE: The mission of Dreams We Believe In is to Keep an on-going bond with the children of the mercy center and to eradicate to social stigma against people living with HIV. Group leaders: Sarika Bhatt Teacher Mentors: Joachim Ekstrom
Participants:

Mercy Fun Day

In this event we brought the kids from the Mercy Center to NIST to enjoy the facilities they dont have access to. We wanted them to feel new environments while also increasing the bond between NIST kids and the kids from the Mercy Center.

November 21, 2012

It was extremely successful as the kids enjoyed it. It made a positive difference in the kids life and made our bond stronger

There are fundraisers that occur specifically for this. It was appropriate and based on needs as mentioned.

HIV is a global problem but we work with kids on a local level. This benefits both parties as it makes our bond stronger and thus we achieve our goal.

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The Giving Tree/Christmas Party

To let the kids enjoy a normal childhood event, especially since they are Christians, and to connect NIST kids with mercy center kids by having their small wishes come true on Christmas. The giving tree (a Christmas tree) held cards made by the children in the Mercy Center. Within the card was a Christmas gift wish from each of the kids. The card was taken by members of the NIST community, and they bought and gave the gift, along with a personal message during the Christmas party. In return to the NIST community, we gave them a photograph of the child receiving the presents. This was a small wish of the children coming true on Christmas.
It was successful as it directly involved all communities. It gave all sides a feeling of satisfaction and involvements, and most importantly, made the kids in the Mercy Center very happy. We knew that the children had small dreams, and we strived to make those dreams come true. It was environmentally conscious and definitely financially sustainable because we had NIST kids by the presents for them. It was culturally appropriate as the kids are Christians and it is only appropriate that they have something special for Christmas.

First week of December, 2012

World AIDs Day

In this event we brought the kids from the Mercy Center to NIST to enjoy the facilities they dont have access to. We wanted them to feel new environments while also increasing the bond between NIST kids and the kids from the Mercy Center.

December 1, 2012

This involved everyone from both parties in one way or another. The kids were given a photo of whoever bought their shirt.

This was a fundraiser that was appropriate and resources used were cheap or recyclable.

HIV is a global problem but we work with kids on a local level. This benefits both parties as it makes our bond stronger and thus we achieve our goal.

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Last week of March, 2012 and kids at the Mercy Center, we host an annual showcase of singing, dancing, piano, guitar, and ukulele performances. NIST mentors tell the story of their 5month journey with the children at the Mercy Center, teaching music lessons and sharing memorable experiences.

Mercy Arts

To celebrate the music teaching program between Y12 NIST student volunteers

Concert was 100% student-run, from planning transport and communications, stage set-up, running order, lights, sounds, videos, MCs, ticket sales, food etc. Beneficiaries are fully involved music lessons, practice performances, decision making (songs, lesson times) NIST community supported by attending the event/ donations has been running for three years, dependant on future music volunteers (from lower year levels).

Decisions made jointly between NIST students and Mercy Centre kids activity running due to childrens passion for music environmentally conscious, did not impact the environment fairly financially sustainable (costs of costumes around 40% of revenue) fairly culturally appropriate (songs chosen by students).

Another small event that shows our stance against the ostracism of children living with HIV/AIDS, providing them with opportunities equal to those of other children (i.e. passion of music). Ritahs heartfelt speech about her journey and history with the project helps the audience connect with the situation of the kids, and how we can best help the kids..

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Last week of March, 2012

Dodgeball

For the second year in a row, student and teacher dodgeball teams faced off in a week-long tournament for the coveted prize of Dodgeball Champions.

The event was something done in school and though it was for the kids they were not part of it. This involved a lot of collaboration as it was a huge event and teachers and students were both welcome to participate. It is a fundraiser which is simple (but big) yet effective which is why it is sustainable. It requires resources that is readily available

The point of this event is to make money for something extremely important the education for two blind girls. It is a fun way to do so. It is financially sustainable as resources are already available. It is environmentally friendly and culturally appropriate as dodgeball is very huge in NIST

HIV is a global problem but we are helping kids in a local fashion. The objective of the activity was to raise money for the two girls (Prae and Fon) and that was achieved.

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March 24-25, 2012

Beach Trip

In this event we took the kids from the Mercy Center on a beach trip to Sattahip and let them having an experience most children enjoy having a day on the beach (with ice cream). We also enjoyed a 3D art museum, a sea turtle conservation center, a dolphin show and a tour of the Kings boat. Most importantly they were given an experience that allowed them to integrate further with society rather than stay in the two places they always are the mercy center and their school. The kids enjoyed the trip so much this event is going to become annual.

This trip involved everyone in an environment other than school. Weve done many activities but this one was the biggest yet

The main need (and our goal) is to let the kids integrate with society and eliminate social sigma. This allowed. However it is not financially sustainable.

HIV is a global problem but we are helping kids in a local fashion. The objective of the activity was to raise money for the two girls (Prae and Fon) and that was achieved.

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PURPOSE: The mission of Amnesty International is to raise awareness about the lack of human rights of some people and to act to enhance their lives. Group leaders: Bond Uahwatanasukul and Shilpita Mathews Teacher Mentors: Joe Holroyd Participants: Kareena Ramani, Sarika Bhatt, Triz Kitilimtrakul, Top Stapornchaiyasit, Mew Jirasirikul, Michiyo Anzai

Anti-Death Penalty Petition

There will be a booth set up in front of the schools gate for people to sign the petition to end the death penalty in Thailand. The death penalty is considered to be a denial of basic human rights. The death penalty for killing a person is a violation to human rights. The petition that will be sent to Amnesty International Thailand is something that can not only convince the government to revert the law, but it can also raise awareness around the school.

October 11th, 2012

The petition booth was set up on Parent and Teacher Conference Day. This enabled us to both appeal to student as well as parent body and advocate Amnesty Internationals stance on the issue

Petition signatures collected were then presented to Amnesty International Thailand, as part of their wider Anti-Death Penalty Campaign.

This event made the group realize the importance of discussing the death penalty as a school community. Thus, we decided to host two debates in order for the NIST community to further discuss the issue and consider various perspectives.

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Death Penalty Debate

The aim of this competition was to encourage the NIST community to discuss this controversial issue. Six Year 12-13 students representing respective NIST Houses presented the affirmative and negative side of the motion The death penalty should be abolished. The debate competition was followed with a Q&A session in which participants engaged with the entire student body. The Amnesty Club then discussed the role and stance of Amnesty International and distributed petitions to gain support of those who share similar views. A similar debate was also conducted with Year 10-11 students.

February 4th, 2013

The activity involved the participation of teachers, as part of the judging panel and Year 12-13 students as part of the audience. It stimulated active discussion based on the issue.

Once the issue was discussed during the debate, the Amnesty group distributed petitions to gain support of anyone who concurred with Amnestys views.

The activity stimulated more debate based on the exercise of the death penalty in Thailand and its consequences.

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Corporate Accountability
The purpose of this event was to introduce the concept of Corporate Accountability to the Year 10 humanities classes, in correspondence to their Its All Connected unit. Corporate Accountability is one of Amnesty Thailands campaigns this year and we hope that the introduction of this concept will spur further discussion in the NIST community on this issue. There were 60 minute sessions in four of the Year 10 humanities classes, which had an introduction, discussion and role play element. The role-play involved students taking the role of major corporations and defending their stances thus considering both sides of the argument.

Year 10 Students

Due to the limited number of participants, the event allowed for greater participation within small groups. The role-play activity in particular, was a success for this reason.

Hopefully the introduction and activities helped the Year 10 class makes connections with their current coursework, as well as inspire them to take further action based on this issue. .

The event was targeted at raising questions, and encouraging students to develop a better understand of the true cost of the products they buy, and the potential adverse impacts.

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PURPOSE: The mission of Operation Smile is to raise awareness about the cleft lips/ cleft palate disease and raise money to fund for the surgeries. Group leaders: Lexi George Petch Kambhi Na Ayudhaya Teacher Mentors: Randy Wallis
Participants: Sanjana Ghosh, Nasakorn Tamavimok, Hannah Cooper, Pavin Chayavivatkul, Ellis Cox McAllistor, Mayuko Kanno, Waen Vejjajiva, Tsai Arvin, Terrie Ding, Angus Calder, Maurits Schulze, Irin Foorungsriroj, Anya Bajaj, Chiara Erfurt, Iwa Foorungsriroj, Tara George, Mala Thompson, Jx Ang, Nopakit Lerthirunvibul, Pearl Sriorathaikul, Aradhana Sachdev, Pao Kasemphaibulsuk, Prao Chittapraneerat, Natasha Premmanisakul, Emma Svedahl O Neil, Aashna Arora, Prabneet Doowa, Hiroko Hongyok, Gaia Weber, Ploy Kambhu Na Ayudhaya, Adele Birkenes, Nivedha Swamy, Arin Naidu, Bhakti Madanal, Harry Kane, Reya Lamsam

Smile Week
The purpose of smile week was to raise awareness about the cleft lips/ cleft palates. This is why we put this event first, before the missions and the miles for smiles run. We wanted people to know that this is a growing issue and that no one really knows why/ how or what causes it. We had multiple events used to raise money and awareness about the disease and the organization trying to help the children with cleft lips/ cleft palates. We had activities including chubby bunny, penalty shoot-out, cupcake sale, and smile competition.

November, 2012

This was a student run activity that ran for three days of the week. We had many activities including chubby bunny, cupcake sale, penalty shoot-out, music box etc. These events were used to raise money for future events and awareness. There was a lot of collaboration between all of the 30+ students in the operation smile committee this year.

The smile week was financial sustainable as our main goal was not to raise funds. Therefore everyone who spent money on materials such as cupcake ingredients or paint was paid back.

This event did not have a huge impact but we were able to get our NIST community to become more aware of the disease and of the operation smile thailand organization and what they do here in Thailand to help kids with cleft lips and cleft palates.

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November, 2012 and February, 2013 The purpose of the missions is really to allow the people in the service group to go and see who were really trying to help and really understand the situation they are in. When you get to meet the children and their families you really understand that they do not have the means to get this treatment which lasts for over 20 years of the childrens lives. We organized two missions this school year; one if February to Srisaket and one in November to Nakon Ratchasima. In both trips we took about 510 people. The trips lasted about 3-4 days. Every day we would go spend time with the kids at the hospital and sit in during an operation. It was a very eye opening experience.

Smile Missions

There was collaboration between operation smile students and operation smile staff to organize the event

The students paid for the hotel fee. We were told to wear long pants and appropriate clothing for the entire trip.

I would recommend for every student in any service group to go see what the organization or the cause youre raising money for really does. It really is best experience; to be able to see and talk to the people youre helping and get to hear their stories.

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Miles for Smiles: Color Run

The purpose of the colour run is to raise money for the operation smile organization here in Thailand. The Miles for Smiles Color Run is an inter-school event involving 10 schools including NIST, ISB, BPS, RIS, Harrow, Watnairong and more. The Color Run was held at Watchirabenchatat park (Suan rot fai) on a Saturday morning where runners from different schools signed up, got a bib, a shirt and a wrist band and ran 5K around the park. At every 1K, a powder color was thrown at them. If they completed 5K, they would have 5 colours on them. The event ended with a final color throw and food and drinks sponsored by coca cola and coffee bean.

April 6th, 2013

Our event was open to anyone who wanted to come. Organizers included students from over 10 schools in Thailand (international and local). Operation Smile Thailand (OST) was also involved. Our sponsors include coca cola, coffee bean, hotels, etc.

The colour was tested and was non toxic to humans or the environment so our event was environmentally conscious. We also brought in a water truck after the event to clean up. It was financially stable as we paid off all our costs and made over 200,000 baht profit. .

This was the largest event weve ever held and we were able to make over baht. We were able to help fund treatment of over 20 years for 5 kids and that was more than we ever hoped for.

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PURPOSE: The purpose of the drama tour in Cambodia with Buffalo Tours was to raise awareness of human trafficking to vulnerable villages. Teacher Mentors: Andy Dorn and Annie Millard
Participants: Y11 Drama students

After learning about human trafficking in Humanities classes, year 11 drama students created an original piece of theatre, transcending language, to education potentially vulnerable villagers about the possibility of being trafficked, and how to seek help. The piece was performed four times Cambodia.

This was a collaborative activity born out of two subjects: Humanities and Drama. Students wrote the script themselves. The trip was set up by teachers, but the students were the ones who ran the performance.

The performances helped address an important need: educating villagers about the dangers of human trafficking. The trip was local, so its ecological impact was minimal, and it was culturally appropriate. The trip was financed by the students themselves, and financial assistance would have relieved some pressure

The performances enriched the lives of both the students who performed, who got a deeper understanding of the issue, and the lives of those who were in the audience. The four performances reached over 1000 people.

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PURPOSE: The aim of NIST Concordia team is to provide a cultural diversify experience for the kids in Concordia welfare center through the combination of education and entertainment. Group leaders: Earth and Toey Teacher Mentors: Raymond Nall Participants: Earth, Toey, Mei Lin, Arnold, Jhena, Sophie, Akemi

Concordia Welfare Center is an organization that provides free daycare for children so their parents can work. Every Thursday from 2:30 to 5:00 we go to Concordia and do different team building and fun activities as well as teaching them about healthy eating, math and English.

Our activity involved Students, Adults and little kids. We had to not only collaborate as students to come up with weekly plans and activities, we also had to coordinate with Concordia about days we could and could not attend. Our group was quite small this year, on average we had about 5 people go and usually it was the same 5 people. Our activity is on a weekly basis which keeps it sustainable and allows future development, fundraisers and also more members would help keep our program running. Every week we had 3 people, Earth, Toey and Mei Lin, decide what the activities and the theme for the month would be. We had talked to the person in charge of Concordia and we

all thought that we should teach the kids about health. Since many of the kids were too young to go to school we helped them read and write and also played games to teach them about healthy eating. These included drawing food pyramids and having healthy snacks instead of chips and soda. Our activities were always environmentally safe, we used old materials and reused paper. Whatever we had to buy for that week usually didnt take over maybe 500 baht for all the foods and materials. We did have to base our activities on what we could teach the kids, mostly English math and Thai, we tend to stay away from politics or history.

Our activity did impact Concordia as a whole, weve helped bring the kids closer together and also their families, if there was ever any problems they would come to us to seek support and also it made the people involved feel better about themselves. In the beginning we didnt know any of the kids stories and also what they were like and what kinds of families they came from. As time progressed, we learned a lot more and it made us more aware of what life could be like for anyone. We do think globally because we think about different countries around the world that are in similar situations as us. And in order to make a difference, we have to start locally which is us helping Concordia Welfare Center.

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PURPOSE: The aim of NIST Concordia team is to provide a cultural diversify experience for the kids in Concordia welfare center through the combination of education and entertainment. Group leaders: Daniel, Jamie, Vanessa, and Arnav Teacher Mentors: David Cameron January 15th, 2013

The purpose was to give children in years 3-6 the opportunity to improve their skills
and talents in the performing arts.

For around 3 months, we worked with children from year 3-6 and helped them improve their talents and skills in the performing arts. We had dancers, an actress, vocalists, guitarists, a pianist and a juggler. They created and directed their own performance based on their own ideas and creativity, which they performed for an audience on January 18th, 2013

This activity, I felt really connected people with different styles and talents, as they all got to learn from each other about what they loved doing, what they were all capable of and had to come to a consensus about how the show should be run. Everyone in the team including the performers worked together to create an entertaining

performance appropriate for a live audience. Financially, it worked very well as most things we needed were already available at school. We had hired a team of event organisers to help us with the set design of the performance. Children were completely in charge of what they needed; clothes, props, etc. Us leaders helped them with electronic/light/sound equipment.

The children left the audience very satisfied that night, and they were all able to express their talents. Even though some minor technological issues may have occurred, it didnt impact the performance a lot. We had hoped to focus more on the community and service part of it, but since the performance was expected to be smaller than we had planned, we made the show free, and focused more on the artistic side of it.

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PURPOSE: The aim of NIST Concordia team is to provide a cultural diversify experience for the kids in Concordia welfare center through the combination of education and entertainment. Group leaders: Jacqueline Patterson, Teresa Tung Student media and support: 4RW, Lexi George, Ellis Cox-Mcallister April 3rd, 2013

A fire broke out in Ban Mae Surin, a refugee camp for Karen and Karenni people in northern Thailand, leaving 2000 refugees homeless and killing 37 refugees. NIST responded with an emergency free dress day with the goal to raise money in order to buy pots, an important cooking utensil for the refugees. 179,537baht was raised for The Border Consortium, and NGO working with several refugee camps. By the time the funds were raised, another organization had stepped in to purchase the pots, so NISTs contributions were redirected to purchase construction materials bamboo, eucalyptus, and leaves for roofing to enable the refugees to rebuild 10 shelters.

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