Farewell to Emma and Christophe

This week Childlife said farewell to Emma and Christophe who spent the last 2 ½ months volunteering with Baan Nana. Emma was a volunteer through Global Youth UK, aiming to assist Childlife to build capacity and long term sustainability.

Emma’s passion of working with minority groups of Thailand, in particular the Akha, was a huge benefit for all the children and staff here. During her time she organised an Akha culture day and formed links with various partners of Childlife to ensure the long term cultural development of the children is nurtured and encouraged.

In addition Emma provided invaluable support in the office with fundraising, English lessons and land proposals.

During Christophe’s time at Childlife he ran a pin-hole photography project with the children. This involves producing photographs using a simple box. With this project a full day Art and Creativity Workshop was developed leading to the first ever Childlife Art and Photographic Exhibition held at Nana Buffet and Restaurant.

They will be missed greatly by all the children and staff at Baan Nana for their big smiles, great progressive ideas and very positive energy. The staff and children at Nana Buffet will miss their pancakes and the children at the shelter will dearly miss the nightly video sessions of the footage they had taken through out the day.

Together they were the brains trust behind the Friends of Childlife Project looking to promote the support of Childlife to continue its work at the grass roots, and at the same time to raise awareness of the long term disadvantages and problems of Child Sponsorship Programs.

A huge thanks from everyone at Childlife for their massive contribution to the organisation.