Student Clubs

Student Life and Service

As with everything else, student clubs have had to adapt and innovate with the school

year starting online, and this has included finding a way of holding the annual Club Fair online. While the Club Fair itself won’t have been held in time for this issue’s printing, this year’s Club President meeting - also held online - can be seen in the pictures below, with representatives of the 33 continuing and new clubs present. All representatives were excited to continue their clubs’ work, or commence an exciting new endeavour.

Mr. Ben - Student Life Coordinator

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Student Life and Service

Student Clubs Summer Activity

Several of our clubs were able to get out into the community over the summer break, and below is a snapshot of their activities.

Habitat for Humanity

Our

club is working with Habitat for Humanity Thailand to provide shelter, a basic human need, for those who are not as fortunate as well as to reduce the number of homeless in Thailand. Our goal last school year (2020-2021) was to raise 80,000 baht and attend 2 building sites in the suburbs.

Due to COVID-19, we were unable to attend the second building site near the end of the year. Therefore we focused more on raising funds and donating it to the H4H Thailand organization remotely. We are very proud of our club members who participated and helped raise over 250,000 baht, way over our initial goal.

Suphanburi Site (13 Sep, 2020) We attended a building site at Suphanburi on September 13, 2021 where half of our club members volunteered to help build a house. We arrived in the morning to help move the sand, mix cement, stack the bricks, etc; and all members were involved in every procedure. Even though it was an exhausting day, seeing the new homeowner’s gratitude made the hard work pay off.

Grin Green Club

The third wave of Covid-19 intensified over the summer break, yet that did not stop

the Grin Green club from taking action. Rather, our environmental club was able to support the fight against Covid-19. During the summer, the Grin Green club partnered with environmental organizations Less Plastic and You Turn to raise awareness in regards to recycling plastic to PPE suits for frontline workers. We made posters that were shared via social media, encouraging people outside our school community to participate in this event. The posters were in English and Thai and included the simple steps to participate in this campaign: sort, clean, and deliver your plastic recyclables to the nearest recycling station. We also had plastic recyclables from the plastic trash cans that we sorted while we were still in school. Those recyclables were also donated to the recycling company that turns plastic into PPE suits. The plastic wastes that most of us overlook are now valuable materials in this difficult time. Although we are an environmental club, not a medical club, we were still able to help fight the pandemic with a creative mind.

Students involved were Khim, Ice, Mim, Prem, Pinky, Thee, Tiro, Jinnie, Elia, Fantfant, Melody, JayJay.

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For

this project, all members participated throughout the whole process, from designing up to packing and selling stages.

We designed a hoodie and sold it to our Concordian Community and on Instagram (@homemakers.th).

March 29th - April 8th, 2021

March 29th - April 8th, 2021

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Fundraising Project