Short updates December 2009
TYAP New Year message
The Swan project in Wairng Hairng
On the 26th December TYAP staff as well as our good friends at MPlus Foundation and MAP Foundation visited the Swan project in Wairng Hairng an orphanage that is home for 50 children aged from infancy to early teens. TYAP during the one day event played games with the children as happily handed each child Christmas presents.
Children from the home usually come from the communities of Wairng Hairng, which is north west of Chiang Mai city also sitting on the border of Myanmar.
In all the day was a fun one, with not only the children but the adults getting into the spirit of things by enthusiastically participating in the games.
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| Image One Happy New Year |
Happy New Year to all our friends here in Thailand as well as abroad, we hope you have a safe and fun one, spent with loved ones 
…. TYAP Team
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Mekong Media Forum
During the 9th December till the 12th December the Mekong Media forum was held at Holiday Inn Chiang Mai. The forum an opportunity for journalists, media analysts, filmmakers, radio broadcasters as well as photographers to come together and discuss some of the pressing issues of the Mekong region. The forum included representatives from the countries that make up the Mekong region that includes: Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam and China. Some members of TYAP were able to view some of the sessions and speakers. The workshops of sexuality and the media were of particular interest to TYAP as well as sessions dealing with the potential of community radio. For more information please check out their website at Mekong Media Forum
Youth Leadership Project 09
World Aids Day 09
On the 4th of December TYAP’s youth leadership team together with youth leaders from Sankampaeng, held a booth as well as conducted HIV prevention training activities at one of Chiang Mai’s largest technical collages, Lanna Polytechnical Collage. The activities that were conducted, directly involved up to 250 students of the school with up to 400 other students and visitors to the school also indirectly becoming involved in the TYAP run activities. Each year Lanna Polytechnical collage organises HIV prevention events during the world aids day dates inviting TYAP as well as other NGO’s to participate and disseminate information about HIV. This year 8 organisations as well as TYAP participated.
Youth Leadership Project 09
World Aids Day 09
On the 1st and 2nd of December TYAP’s youth leadership team conducted HIV prevention and AIDs knowledge workshops at the BP Hotel downtown Chiang Mai. In collaboration with the municipality government office of Chiang Mai, 4 staff from TYAP as well as 5 youth leaders from Lomlang conducted the training for 115 youth from 5 schools within the municipality of Chiang Mai. Most of the students who attended the trainings reported that they had learnt something new about HIV, that wasn’t clear before the workshops, most youth also reported that they had fun during the 2 day events.
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| Image Two Youth during the workshop events at BP Hotel |
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World Aids Day 09
On the 1st of December 2009 TYAP together with our partners at MPlus Foundation, MAP Foundation, EMPOWER Foundation, The Red Cross, PHJ plus many other organisations making up the Northern Coalition on HIV conducted awareness activities at the Rincome Intersection, Chiang Mai which was overseen by the Chiang Mai Ministry of Health. In all 50 people from the organisations conducted awareness activities at the intersection, the busiest intersection in Chiang Mai. The activities which lasted for 2 hours were designed to give passing by motorists information about HIV as well as promote the use of condoms. In all an estimated 300 people stopped by the road side requesting more information, while more than 1000 people were shown the demonstrations and displays by the road side.
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