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Mechai Bamboo School
The document discusses the Mechai Viravaidya Foundation's Bamboo School initiative aimed at transforming rural education in Thailand by emphasizing life and occupational skills. It highlights innovative educational practices that empower students from various ethnic backgrounds and promote community development through hands-on experiences and social entrepreneurship. The school serves as a hub for lifelong learning and poverty eradication efforts, engaging students in various agricultural and business projects.
Mechai Bamboo School
- 1. Population and CommunityDevelopment Association Mechai Viravaidya Foundation A New Dawn in Rural Thai Education
- 2. ROTE MEMORIZATION Rural Thai education = withoutemphasis on Life skills and occupational skills
- 3. many of ourstudents for the world of tomorrow …and does not prepare Evidence
- 4. According to theWorld Bank are functionally illiterate 1/3 of Thai students who finish compulsory education ( grade 9 )
- 5. We need to change in3 ways
- 6. 1. What weteach as well as 3. The role of the school 2. How we teach
- 7. A Lifelong Learning Center ASchool for students into The school has to change from being solely
- 8. the entire community, servingstudents, their families and
- 9. for improving the qualityof life in and the school must also act as a HUB surrounding communities
- 10. From this To this We have toadvance
- 11. by the Bamboo School aspioneered in Northeast Thailand
- 12. The Bamboo School ISWORKING TOWARDS RE-ENGINEERING RURAL EDUCATION
- 13. Bangkok Buriram The Bamboo Schoolin Buriram Province
- 14. Possess Life skills &occupational skills Know how to manage Community Development leaders The school’s objective is to foster… Who are honest and willing to share Practice and promote gender equality Good Citizens
- 15. Naan Prae Mahasarakham Roi Et Yasothorn Ubon RatchathaniKanchanaburi Ayutthaya NakhonRatchasima Sa Kaew Chonburi Buriram Bangkok Nakhon Si Thammarat Songkhla Chumporn Surat Thani Samut Prakarn Nakhon Phanom Sisaket Thailand Students come from across the country
- 16. Village Development Partnership16 Students from Mon, Karen and Hmong ethnic minority groups
- 17. The Bamboo School will have students from theother Lower Mekong Region Countries
- 18. The school triesto stimulate students to be creative and to
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- 24. Village Development Partnership24 Sidewalk dictionary
- 25. Let the nextOlympic Games save lives… Weapon of Mass Protection
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- 27. Don’t leave homewithout it !
- 28. Buildings constructed ofBamboo Creative construction
- 29. Classroom built fromBamboo
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- 32. World’s largest Bamboo GeodesicDome Diameter = 30 meters
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- 34. The Dome canaccommodate 500 people
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- 40. 40Learning to supportand respect others Daily experience in a wheelchair
- 41. Phones can only beused one hour per week 3 letters per week School Discipline Letter writing replaces telephones
- 42. Understanding hunger Students donot eat on Monday evenings
- 43. Good Deeds Pool Lifesaving swimming classes for students from rural government schools
- 44. Students Help to RunThe School and student committees The Student Council through
- 45. Purchasing & audit Examplesof Student Management Committees: Welcoming and briefing visitors to the school
- 46. Students Welcoming Deputy PrimeMinister
- 47. Purchasing equipment forthe school Projector
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- 49. Vehicles purchased bystudents
- 50. 50 Incoming grade 7students selected by grades 8,9,10 students Students also interview parents
- 51. Students participate in teacherselection and evaluation
- 52. Students participate in teacherselection and evaluation
- 53. School fees arepaid by by performing community service and planting trees
- 54. 400 hours Parents &students perform and planting 400 trees per year of community service
- 55. Good wishes shrine Goodwishes shrine
- 56. Students learn inside &outside the class & outside the school
- 57. Solar panels atthe School
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- 59. Students solar torchbusiness
- 60. 60 Learning out ofclassroom At Parliament House
- 61. 61 Students suggesting ideasof youth to the Chairman of the Constitution Drafting Committee
- 62. Donation of solartorches for Nepalese and Rohingya children to the President of Parliament
- 63. Village Development Partnership63 Bamboo School students learning about life as a Thai citizen (beggar) School holiday research
- 64. Holiday Job Training togain practical experience Learning outside the school
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- 68. Gaining experience atMicrosoft
- 69. Bamboo School campusin Pattaya
- 70. Bamboo School campusin Pattaya
- 71. Regents PattayaShrewsbury Visiting BambooSchool students in international Schools
- 72. Village Development Partnership Teacherand students in Australia
- 73. Village Development Partnership StudyingEnglish in Canada
- 74. Village Development Partnership GapYear in Oxford
- 75. The Bamboo School trains studentsin business skills & agriculture
- 76. and provides loans for parents toget out of poverty
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- 78. Village Development Partnership Driedseafood business
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- 81. Sorting 1,000 eggsa day before selling
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- 84. BREAD : Businessfor Rural Education & Development Co.
- 85. Students making theirown SOIL in cement rings
- 87. Ready for thekitchen
- 88. Village Development Partnership88 Vegetables in laundry baskets
- 89. Village Development Partnership89 1 kg. per month per basket
- 90. Village Development Partnership Vegetablesin double-layered small baskets using coconut fiber as starter medium
- 91. Village Development Partnership Rootscome through coconut fiber into water with nutrients
- 92. Village Development Partnership92 Vegetables along walkway
- 93. Village Development Partnership93 Vegetables in colorful baskets
- 94. Preparing bottles forvegetable growing along fence
- 96. Bottle vegetables incoconut fiber on fence
- 97. Vegetables along fenceand in containers
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- 100. Minimum space, waterand labour
- 101. Students Pollinating MelonFlowers
- 102. Melons grown insand & coconut fiber
- 104. Students growing tomatoesin sand
- 106. PVC Pipe Hydroponics forMelons & Tomatoes
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- 109. Also bamboo hydroponicsystem
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- 111. Deputy Prime Ministerexperiencing wheelchair agriculture
- 112. Helping wheelchair boundpeople to become social entrepreneurs
- 113. Next: agriculture forthe blind Training for students with disabilities
- 114. is helping toestablish vegetable farms in small government schools The Bamboo School in partnership with companies
- 115. and helping theseschools to become a hub for improving the quality of life and income
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- 117. The Association of SmallCommunity Schools of Thailand to help small schools become community lifelong learning and development centers has requested our assistance
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- 119. Students and communitymembers help build their school’s Poverty Eradication Farm
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- 125. Village Development PartnershipVillageDevelopment Partnership 125 Students growing vegetables in baskets
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- 131. Students savings andbusiness loan fund
- 132. Student-run businesses in governmentprimary schools Vegetable Growing and Selling
- 134. School microfinance forpoor parents and grandparents to raise income and get out of poverty
- 135. Mushroom cultivation (200%profit) by grandparent of student
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- 138. Poverty Eradication Farmin School for students with disabilities
- 139. Hydroponics system inrecycled bottles
- 140. Bamboo School studentshelping to assemble PVC pipe hydroponics system with wheelchair-bound students
- 143. Hydroponic salad grownin PVC pipes assembled by students
- 144. Wheelchair-bound student growingmushrooms Providing opportunities at home for people in wheelchairs to earn income
- 145. Projects in schoolsfor ethnic minority and stateless students
- 150. Stateless children visitingthe Bamboo School
- 151. Minority groups andstateless children preparing to attend the Bamboo School
- 152. Minority groups andstateless children Now attending the Bamboo School
- 153. Stateless and minoritygroup children getting work experience in Bangkok before going to the Bamboo School in Buriram province
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- 159. Village Development Partnership Meet“Thailand’s New Generation of Social Entrepreneurs & Community Development Leaders”
- 160. mechai@pda.or.th www.mechaifoundation.org Mechai Bamboo SchoolMechai Viravaidya Foundation