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Thailand Program

2007-2008 Program: Monday, June 2 - Monday, June 16

Meet the Thailand Team Leader: Britnie Anderson

New Site: Khao Lak, Thailand

YouthLINC is proud to partner with the 4Kali.org Foundation, created by the Breisch family of Salt Lake City in honor of Kali Glynn Breisch and thousands of others from 28 countries who lost their lives in the Tsunami of December 26, 2004, in Thailand and elsewhere in Southeast Asia.

Program Plans

We hope to help with and expand 4Kali’s efforts in the Tsunami affected community of Khao Lak, Thailand beginning in our 2007-2008 program year.

4Kali has undertaken school and community center construction in this village, as well as small business loans to families who were left destitute after the loss of jobs due to the tsunami. YouthLINC plans to expand its own micro-enterprise program to this area, teaching business skills and English. We will provide clean water, bathrooms, and dormitories to an orphanage, develop a first aid room at a primary school, and provide oxygen tanks to a small hospital which serves the community. The hospital has also asked for community health workshops for villagers.

We will also partner with a Moken community – sea gypsies who became land-dwelling after the tsunami – to provide quality of life improvements in their village and small business loans. Our participants will also interview the Moken people in efforts to preserve their strictly oral culture, a culture that will be lost as they leave the sea, send their children to school, and become Thai speaking citizens.

Also, because of the tsunami, the children in these traditional fishing villages are afraid of the sea, and we also hope our YouthLINC students can teach swimming lessons in the new community center planned by 4Kali.

Our Partners

Mark your calendars as Gastronomy Restaurants will be hosting a Benefit for YouthLINC student sponsorships to our new Thailand program Saturday, September 22, 2007 at the Market Street Restaurant/Cottonwood.

Much thanks to Southwest Valley Sunrise Rotary Club, Utah and Patong Beach Rotary Club, Thailand for their support of our projects at this new international site.