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.

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

Youth Media Network

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.

Image Two Youth during the workshop events at BP Hotel

Youth Media Network

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.

Short updates November 2009

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Trial Cultural Experience project

On the 28th – 29th of November 2009 TYAP conducted the trial program for the 2 day cultural experience project in the community of Huai Saai, Chiang Mai. In all 4 participants we’re the first to experience this exciting and traditional cultural experience. The local community, while a little surprised to see foreign people walking through the local markets and riding bicycles around the community’s temples, were happy to welcome the 4 participants. Some local people even showing the participants how to make local cigarettes and food. Because of the success of the trial program, TYAP will now start up the cultural experience project as a main aspect of TYAP’s fundraising activities. The new project will be known as CATCH or Charitable Alternative Traditional Cultural Healthy Experience. You can check out more details by clicking on the logo below:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Youth Media Network

Youth Consumer Rights Project 09

On Friday the 20th of November 2009, the Youth media team, held the first Youth Consumer Rights Film festival at Amura Tapae Hotel in downtown Chiang Mai. The all day event which included all participating schools from the Youth Consumer Rights project was a chance to highlight all the hard work that each youth group had undertaken through the 3 month project. The schools who were part of this project included สิริมังคลานุสรณ์ Sirimungklanauson public school, เมตตา Maytaa Public School โกวิทธำรง, Gowittamrong public school ท่าสะต๋อย TaasaDtoi as well as a youth group from the community of แม่ออน Mae On. Our good friends from Chiang Mai consumer group as well as MAP foundation were present to be judges for the film competition. The winning clip was the crowd and judges favourite from the group from Mae On.

Image One The Winning youth group from Mae On. Click for more photos from the day.

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World Aids Day CMU

On the 18th of December TYAP together with MAP foundation and MPLUS foundation undertook awareness activities about HIV at Chiang Mai University. At the 4 hour event about 200 youth came and joined the various activities organised by the varying organisation working for HIV in Chiang Mai and the North of Thailand. The activities we’re held in preparation for World’s Aids Day events.




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