Friday, July 30-  9:00 am                                      

If you can put on make-up and paint fingernails, the ladies at Garonyawet Disabled Ladies Home would love to see you for our monthly get-together.  Everyone will meet at Foodland at 9:00 am, and return there around 12:00 noon.  Please contact Marjolijn Bakker or Monique van Deursen to sign up.

Great news!  We raised 91,224 THB at the Garage Sale for Our Home of Khun Tiew!  A fantastic amount, isn’t it?  Khun Tiew wrote me the following:

Dear All,

We have made 91,224 baht for the Garage Sale 2010.  This is including the air-conditioning unit that will be wire the money to me later.  At the end we sell clothing at 5 baht/each and give away the junk on the other side.

Thanks you all very much for another great day.  Please forward this good news to the others that came over to help.  May God Bless you all.

Tiew

Marjolijn Bakker

Do you know what Flickr is? 

Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world.

And now you can view a collection of PILC photos on Flickr.  Simply go to:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pilc-gallery/collections/

These photos are available here for any PILC members to use, and committee members are able to make use of them for promotional material, sponsorship, etc.  If you have any photos you wish to add, please forward them to Monique van Deursen.

A big thanks to Monique for setting up and maintaining the online albums.

flickr logo by topgold

The ring pulls you save from your cans can be used by Dr. Therdchai at the Prosthesis Foundation in Chiang Mai to make artificial limbs. Dr. Therdchai fits on average four limbs a day, which equates to 1,500 limbs per year.

Now, just because Lynne Richards, who first alerted us to this potential for do-gooding, has sadly left Thailand, doesn’t mean we don’t need you to continue to save your ring pulls.  Please bring your ring pulls to the Coffee Mornings or Lunches, where Sue Grogan will now be collecting them.

photo by Mickal

Saturday, October 2, 2010

The date of this year’s Holiday Bazaar has been revealed!  Save the date – October 2 – at the Royal Cliff Beach Resort Pattaya.  Shop until you drop, get ready for the festive season, support the local community and help PILC reach the same goals collecting money as last year – or why not make it better.

Not only is the Holiday Bazaar an annual tradition of the PILC but also it gives members and the public a chance to meet up, either sell or buy an array of goods from silverware, to jewelry, to local handicrafts, to food and wine.  Members of PILC customarily give their time and money to help out the people of the Eastern Seaboard, however on the occasion of the Holiday Bazaar the PILC Ladies really come into their own.  Many helpers are needed to make this event a success: advertising and promotion, selling raffle tickets, finding vendors, locating sponsors, manning the doors on the day, organizing the tables, all these need volunteers.  For more information please e-mail Bea Grunwell or Sandra Schonherr.

At the last Coffee Morning it was announced by the PILC Special Events that the Annual Gala Ball will be held at the Amari Ballroom on 20th November, 2010.

The theme for the evening is “Hollywood meets Bollywood”, and PILC members and their guests are encouraged to come dressed in either black tie, traditional costume, or their favourite Hollywood or Bollywood character.

Once again we need some help from our Indian members for ideas, advice and contacts, help with attracting sponsors for the evening, selling tickets (we would like to break some records this year, although we are being told times are hard), finding and donating prizes for the auction held on the evening, designing the menu, programmes and flyers.  For more information please e-mail or contact Bea Grunwell or Sandra Schonherr.

Bowling…..What can one say about it except – Fun, Fun, Fun.

This dedicated group of women has been getting together each and every Thursday from 10 am to 12 pm at Bowling Plus (463/78 Moo 9, Second Road – [across the road, and just north of Big C]).  The usual competive spirit is left at the door as we are in it for the joy of the “sport”, the warmth of friendship that can only exist when women get together and, of course, as much laughter as we can muster in one morning.

This is an open invitation to any or all of you who whould love to come and share in our Thursday morning activity.  When we say “bowling is fun” we mean it.  Not to mention inexpensive – 60 baht/game plus 30 baht for rental shoes.

Naturally, bowling is followed by lunch at a different Pattaya restaurant each time.  It is always a pleasant surprise as to where it is going to be.

For more information on how to join this group – as a one time activity or on a more permanent basis – please contact Nancy Bradburn.

Connie Kwok

North Star Library would like to recommence the Mother and Toddler group every Tuesday morning at 10:00 am.  This is just a chance for the children to play and socialise, and for the mothers to socialise as well.  Cost would be 100 THB.  If interested please contact North Star Library at 038-716755.

Any budding photographers out there who would like to volunteer for a special project?  We would like to catalogue existing digital photos of our welfare projects and, where necessary, take new photo’s to add to our collection.  You would work in conjunction with our Welfare team to achieve this.  If interested, please contact Judy Hoppe by phone or e-mail.

Bonjour/Hola!

Would there be any interest among the ladies to join these groups?  Many of us may have studied these languages, but have not been able to use them here in Thailand.  Please feel free to write to me if you are interested!

Marjatta Suomela