After their arrival early in the morning the 30 Navy members of the two countries were divided into two groups. While one group was adjusting the land of our vegetable garden the rest was helping us with a very remarkable task. Some weeks ago a heavy storm raged over Pattaya and did hard damage. At our center the storm…
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes has been a sponsor of the CPDC for a long time and its vast and long lasting experiences on drug control and crime prevention contribute significantly to the success of CPDC. This Wednesday, the 8th of August, the UN-Director for Inspection and Division Deborah Rugg visited our center to ensure herself…
In the early afternoon our honorable guests arrived at the CPDC’s compound, where twenty CPDC children as well as staff members and the team of HHNFT were awaiting them. After a brief introduction to the concept of the CPDC, the group was split into smaller groups, to let our guests take a closer look to the compound. Our CPDC…
Starting with different competitions, such as sack race and tug-of-war took place, the children of four teams proved their skills. Afterwards the volleyball match began. By using barrels to cheer the players up the other children were a great support for the CPDC Volleyball girls, who play “professional” in a volleyball club. Exhausted from many different games, which…
It is no secret that every child loves the circus with its artists who can, in their eyes, do incredible and wonderful things. They mostly really want to know how to learn circus arts, but it is not easy to find somebody who has the knowledge, the time and the patience to teach it to a child. The…
The Amadeus group arrived at 10:30 a.m. at the compound of the CPDC. The 200 children of the CPDC with the children from the slums, Mercy Center, Baan Jing Jai and the Fountain of Life Center who arrived earlier, were all already very excited and looking forward to all the planned activities. Everyone was directed towards the sportscourt…
On Wednesday morning the CPDC met with the Austrian Minister Dr. Johannes Peterlik with his wife Dr. Uschi Peterlik, his mother and his two children as well as the Austrian Consul Rudolf Hofer at Central Festival in front of the Toys’R’Us. For this Christmas the Austrian Ambassador took the opportunity again to treat the children of the CPDC. Every…
It was a sunny Sunday morning and the children of the CPDC were already playing some ball games when the group of students arrived at the compound of the Child Protection and Development Center. To give them an insight of the work of the CPDC we first guided the students over the whole area and explained them the several…
The event began at 12 noon in front of the Hard Rock Hotel, in Pattaya, with a welcome speech by Rotary member Dieter Reigber, addressing the various welfare organizations of members of the Rotary Club who were present. The race then began on the beach in front of the Hard Rock Café. However, instead of swimming in the…
Planned was a football tournament with an award ceremony in the end. While the boys started the football match the other children enjoyed playing basketball or badminton in another sports hall. Led by the enthusiastic Mr. Oumar Cisse the children had so much fun by doing sports together. In the afternoon the football teams were honored with medals…
