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Fundraising for HIV & AIDS orphans in Thailand

pandorea

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With permission from Admin, I set up a fundraising even for HIV & AIDS orphans  in Thailand at Baan Gerda. BaanGerda is a small community 230 km north of Bangkok where 71 HIV positive children, mostly orphans, live and receive medical treatment in family houses under the care of foster parents. It is a project of the Children’s Rights Foundation, a Bangkok-based non profit organization. Children orphaned by AIDS who are HIV positive often end up in the most pitiful situation imaginable. They are less likely than others to find shelter in their extended families, and can be outcasts in their own communities. Most state orphanages and other charitable institutions have not responded to their needs for life-saving drugs, for the love and care of a family structure, and for education. In the beginning, we aimed simply to ease the suffering of kids with AIDS in whatever life remained to them – in other words, we were a hospice operation. As better medicine became available, however, and as the organization gained more financial support from donors, it became possible for BaanGerda to provide long-term care. Little did we imagine that one day we would admit children in an advanced stage of AIDS and that we would be able to nurse them back to health.BaanGerda is the only organization in Thailand that provides family-style homes for orphans, as well as comprehensive HIV care. We believe this structure plays a great role in the recovery and continued health of our children. They all attend school or kindergarten, while their foster parents take care of housekeeping and handicraft production. The parents are also HIV positive, thus ensuring they are sensitive to the needs of HIV infected children. The opportunity to work gives them a fulfilled place in society again where they can live with self-respect.http://www.baangerda.org/ The event is to auction out some objects donated by Tfer. Member who interested to join the event can post here or contact me.  How to : You donate an object or two (maximum), then take pictures of your object and post it on a journal for auction out by yourself. (if you donate two objects then you post 2 journals) Your journal title is “Fund-raising for BaanGerda” Member will bid on your journal. Member who bid on the highest price is the winner. You respond for sending the object to the person who wins the bid. You can set up a rule about where you want to send the object. For exp. If you live in TH and you don’t want to send the object abroad, you can make a remark about that.  How to pay, you can play via paypal or cash. More info. will be added soon.  Please contact me and let me know what you will put on the auction. Please do not put your object on the auction before you contact me. Please also note that any object that against the laws will be rejected.  As it’s for charity, you shouldn’t set minimum price on your object.  The auction starts from August 3-12, 2009. You can post your auction journal anyday during that time. Any suggestion is welcome
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With permission from Admin, I set up a fundraising even for HIV & AIDS orphans  in Thailand at Baan Gerda. BaanGerda is a small community 230 km north of Bangkok where 71 HIV positive children, mostly orphans, live and receive medical treatment in family houses under the care of foster parents. It is a project of the Children’s Rights Foundation, a Bangkok-based non profit organization. Children orphaned by AIDS who are HIV positive often end up in the most pitiful situation imaginable. They are less likely than others to find shelter in their extended families, and can be outcasts in their own communities. Most state orphanages and other charitable institutions have not responded to their needs for life-saving drugs, for the love and care of a family structure, and for education. In the beginning, we aimed simply to ease the suffering of kids with AIDS in whatever life remained to them – in other words, we were a hospice operation. As better medicine became available, however, and as the organization gained more financial support from donors, it became possible for BaanGerda to provide long-term care. Little did we imagine that one day we would admit children in an advanced stage of AIDS and that we would be able to nurse them back to health.BaanGerda is the only organization in Thailand that provides family-style homes for orphans, as well as comprehensive HIV care. We believe this structure plays a great role in the recovery and continued health of our children. They all attend school or kindergarten, while their foster parents take care of housekeeping and handicraft production. The parents are also HIV positive, thus ensuring they are sensitive to the needs of HIV infected children. The opportunity to work gives them a fulfilled place in society again where they can live with self-respect.http://www.baangerda.org/ The event is to auction out some objects donated by Tfer. Member who interested to join the event can post here or contact me.  How to : You donate an object or two (maximum), then take pictures of your object and post it on a journal for auction out by yourself. (if you donate two objects then you post 2 journals) Your journal title is “Fund-raising for BaanGerda” Member will bid on your journal. Member who bid on the highest price is the winner. You respond for sending the object to the person who wins the bid. You can set up a rule about where you want to send the object. For exp. If you live in TH and you don’t want to send the object abroad, you can make a remark about that.  How to pay, you can play via paypal or cash. More info. will be added soon.  Please contact me and let me know what you will put on the auction. Please do not put your object on the auction before you contact me. Please also note that any object that against the laws will be rejected.  As it’s for charity, you shouldn’t set minimum price on your object.  The auction starts from August 3-12, 2009. You can post your auction journal anyday during that time. Any suggestion is welcome
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pandorea

allseasonman, I'm not that bad. Please feel free to be a cheerleader or even better join the event if you're up to it.

I invited someone from baan gerda to join TF, then he can reply all question anyone has. I hope he will make a profile soon.

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allseasonsman

Well anyway it is well meaning so I wish you the best of luck with it, notwithstanding my initial derision at the prospect of hearing yet more again about HIV and AIDS and how to help etc etc.

I sometimes just feel all worn out by the constant demands being made on our best instincts and ideals from just about everywhere. Call me a grumpy so and so. Still I wish you all the best with the fund-raising

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pandorea

Thank you, allseasonsman. ;) I understand what you say. You're being honest most of the time and sometime what you said was right, therefor no grumpy so and so.

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