What's FERC?
Feast! Entertainment! Raffle! Charity!

It's the Foundation for the Education of Rural Children's
First Give and Live Benefit!

 

Join us for a festive Dinner Party and Pop/Blues/Jazz Concert: FERC's first in a series of Give and Live Benefits to support their charity work for children in Thailand. Ticket proceeds will be donated to Children's Garden (Lahu Helping Hand Project). And you'll have the opportunity to contribute for scholarships, bedding, furniture or other needs and purchase baskets, bags and crafts made by the children.

Who:	Anyone and everyone but seating is limited!
What:	Dinner Party and Pop/Blues/Jazz Concert featuring professional musicians from around the corner and across the globe, secret raffle prizes, and a sweet performance by the Children's Garden kids!
Where:	Fondue House, 18/1 Airport Road, Chiangmai (053-201-551)
When:	7:00 PM, Saturday, 30 October 2004
How:	Your donation of 1000 baht includes raffle ticket, banquet, and concert.

Reserve your space or get your tickets at Amari Rincome Hotel (053-221-044 ext. 14), Chiangmai Mail (053-234-102) and Good Morning Chiangmai News (053-278-516).

The garden is growing. "After visiting the Children's Garden and experiencing what they've already done for 26 Lahu, Akha and Karen orphans who have lost their families to AIDS and other misfortunes," says Marc Dumur, Chairman of FERC, "we are committed to help them meet their present needs and expand so they may take in more children. Not only do the kids learn languages and the basics, they work together preparing meals, doing laundry, growing mushrooms, fruits and vegetables, and raising fish, pigs, snails and frogs for food. I'd like to enroll in the mushroom course myself!"

A registered American public charity and a government-registered Thai foundation since 2002, FERC's has a straightforward mission: "to offer access to basic education for rural children." Since its first inspired but unofficial project in 1999, presenting a gala benefit to raise funds for new truck for Viengping Children's Home in Mae Rim, FERC has built schools and dormitories in rural northern Thailand with the help of the Samsara Foundation, provided furnishings, educational materials and scholarships, and diligently worked with other nonprofits to fulfill their mission.

Give and Live is an nonprofit corporation devoted to helping less fortunate folks in SE Asia and giving displaced peoples the tools and knowledge necessary to obtain and sustain healthy, quality lives as vital, contributing world citizens. "These Give and Live Benefits will be a festive way to bring a musical message to the city and take some money to the country," says Scott Jones, Chairman of Give and Live. "Soon we plan to take an entertaining, educational, HIV/AIDS focused concert into FERC's schools, into villages and hill tribes.to give them a show they'll never forget, packed with health facts, so hopefully they'll live a long time to remember it. Maybe we can even save a few lives."

Contact Scott Jones
Foundation for the Education of Rural Children
PO Box 188, CMU Post Office, Chiangmai, Thailand 50200
Phone: 07-188-8487 Email: sj@giveandlive.org
Web: www.giveandlive.org and www.thai-rural-education.org