Wide
Horizons School (WH) is located in Mae Sot, Thailand. It was established in
2006 to build the capacity of young adults from Burma and the Thai-Burma border
to work effectively in civil society organizations. There are 24 students and 5
staffs. They come from multi-cultural backgrounds and the majority of students
are migrants and refugees. All of the students represent CBOs and they enroll
into WH to learn how to write proposals and manage projects to help their
community.
In WH school, bicycles are the main mode of
transportation for 24 students to perform daily errands and carry out school
projects. In 2012, they received 20 bicycles from Global Neighbor. However, all
the bicycles were second-hand and former students have used those bicycles for
a long time. Currently, 5 bicycles are still working but out of these 5, 2
bicycles have no back seats. As for the remaining 11 bicycles, 9 bicycles are
in very bad condition but 6 bicycles are able to be repaired. Out of these 6
repairable bicycles, 4 bicycles have major problems and 2 have minor problems.
Therefore, students from the 2015-2016 academic year is
proposing to repair these 6 bicycles in January 2016 to get enough bicycles for
24 students in WH school.
After this project is accomplished, 24 WH students will
get 6 new working bicycles in addition to the current 5 bicycles to perform
their daily duties and school projects on time. Then, they can get more time
for studying and manage time effectively. Additionally, the upcoming year 24
students can use them because we would have replaced the bicycles with new
parts and we will leave a list of bicycles parts in a book so they are able to use
it as reference when they need to maintain the bicycles after organizers leave.
As a result, they will spend less money for transportation.
To implement this project, we are asking for 2000 baht to
buy bicycle parts to repair 6 bicycles.
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