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Our most recent trip to the Faith Garden Hostel was from 20 to
25 October 2012. This time, wealso visited the home village of some
of our hostel students and also see some of the harvestingin action
in their harvesting field.
Here are some updates on the Hostel:
Of the pioneer batch of 10 students, 9 have successfully made it
to the local universities. InApril 2012, with the help of some of
our sponsors, we have dispatched a sum of money to helpthese 9
students subsidize part of their school fees. These 9 students have
now finished theirfirst semester in university and are living in
the dormitories of their respective universities. Ourhostel
caregiver is keeping in contacts with all these 9 students.
The hostel has now taken in 6 more students. With that, the
current capacity of the hostel
caps at 24.In our most recent trip, all the mission troopers
pooled together a sum of money to help fund
for a laptop for one of our ex-hostel students, who is now in
university. The laptop will be usedto help the student in her
school work.
Praise God for the above!
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In the next few slides, we have attached some pictures of our
most recent trip to the Hostel.
We hope you can continue to support the Faith Garden Hostel in
whatever ways you can in thecoming year.
Blessed New Year to you
and your loved ones!
For the Lord is gracious and righteous. Our God is full of
compassion (Psalm 116:5)
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FaithGardenWe have been involved in mercy works with some Karen
people living in
Chiangmai for since 2005. In short, the Karen people are a minor
ethnic
group inMyanmarandThailand. Theyare amarginalized lot in the
society,
with theBurmeseKarenpeopleespeciallybeingpersecutedby
theBurmese
authoritiestothisday.
InApril2009, fuelledbyastrongdesire
forbettereducationandconducive
living conditions with a good Christian environment, our
Karen
missionary partnersPhiiChaaiandPhiiTamara,havebuiltahostel in
the
peripherals of Chiangmai city(an hours drive away), with the
financial
supportofusandsomeotherfriends fromachurch.
Thesimplehostel,now
calledFaithGarden,isbuiltnearahighschooltomakeiteasyforstudentsto
commute and houses 24 Karen high school students then (age 13 -
18),
mannedbyPhiiChaaiandPhiiTamara.
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FaithGardenSince then, we have been trying to sustain Faith
Garden and helping the
students through a sponsorship system which helps to pay for
the
maintenance of the hostel and the school fees for the
financially less able
students. Thesponsorshipsystemworkslikethis:
Any
of
our
friends
who
are
interested
in
supporting
the
cause
of
Faith
Gardenpledgesasumofmoneyatafixedinterval,forafixedperiodof
time
theywishtocommit.
Typically,sponsorsgiveasumofaboutS$50/mthwhich
theypledgeforayear (i.e. S$600/yr).
Somefriendswhoareunabletocommit
forafixedintervalgaveusaone-oflumpsumdonation.
Eitherway,allthese
detailsarecapturedinaformforaccount
trackingandacknowledgementby
thehostel.
The sponsor can sponsor in 2diferent schemes. The first is to
givemoneyfordirectsponsorshipofastudent,inwhichthesponsorcanchooseto
relatedirectlywiththestudentbeingsponsored.
Thesecondistogivemoney
for the general maintenance of the hostel. In both cases, the
money will
eventuallygointoacommonfundtopayformaintenanceofthehostel/school
feesandexpensesforthestudents.
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FaithGardenSinceFaithGardenwasbuiltinApril2009,we
havebeenmakingseveralmissiontripsup
withsponsorstohelpwithitsdevelopment
andrelatetothestudents. PraiseGodthat
despiteaverydicultfirstyear,thehostelis
nowexpandingtoaccommodate24high
schoolstudents,someofwhomarefromtheotherminorityhilltribes.
PhiiChaaiandPhii
Tamaraarehopingthatthehostelcansustain
andevenexpandinthelongrun,toblessmore
peopleintheircommunity.
Ourbeliefisthatiftheabovemakesan
impressiononyou,thereisalwaysawayinwhichyoucanhelpinthesustenanceofFaith
Gardenandthedevelopmentofitsstudents,
andwewouldbemorethangladtoexplorethe
optionswithyou. Youarealsohighlywelcome
toseeforyourselftheworksdoneintheFaith
Garden,byjoiningusononeofourmission
trips.
