Project: TH-501, Klong Toey Praram 4 Child Development Center

Location: Thapprathan, Bangkok, Thailand

Yanapon lives on the plains of Thapprathan, home to approximately 6,000 residents. Typical houses are constructed of cement. The primary ethnic groups and languages are Thai and Chinese.

The regional diet consists of chicken, rice, pork, fish and vegetables. Common health problems in this area include colds, allergies and skin diseases. Most adults in Thapprathan work as day laborers and earn the equivalent of $250 per month. This community needs stable employment opportunities and drug abuse prevention programs.

Our sponsorship allows the staff of Klong Toey Praram 4 Child Development Center to provide your sponsored child with Bible teaching, nutritious food, physical checkups, sports, educational field trips, volunteer opportunities, birthday celebrations, drug abuse prevention training and tutoring. The center staff will also provide meetings and parenting training for the parents or guardians of your sponsored child.

General Information (Khlong Toei, Bangkok)

Population: 6000

Name Of Major City: Bangkok

Distance from Bangkok: 20 km

Climate and Environment:

• Climate: Humid

• Warmest Month: April

• Avg. Temperature Of Warmest Month: 34C

• Coolest Month: Dec

• Avg. Temperature Of Coolest Month: 21C

• Terrain: Plains/Flat Land

• Planting Month(s): Jun, Jul, Aug

• Rainy Month(s): May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct

• Harvest Month(s): Nov, Dec

• Hunger Month(s): Mar, Apr, May

Typical Home:

• Home floor typically made of: Cement

• Home walls typically made of: Brick/Block/Cement

• Home roof typically made of: Cement

Introduction

Over the last decade, the Tiny House movement has been spreading. A tiny house is a residential structure under 400 square feet (400 square feet is similar to the size of a two car garage.) The Tiny house movement is becoming more popular because it is more affordable, more environmentally conscious, and just a simpler and easier way of living. Simpler living means less stress and more time to focus on what is important in life.

Big Ideas

• Geometric relationships can be described, analyzed, and classified based on spatial reasoning and/or visualization.

• Measurement attributes can be quantified, and estimated using customary and non-customary units of measure.

• Energy can be transferred from one form to another.

• Human decisions related to design, materials, and systems can impact the environment locally and globally.

Essential Questions

• How are spatial relationships, including shape and dimension, used to draw, construct, model, and represent real situations or solve problems?

• In what ways are the mathematical attributes of objects or processes measured, calculated and/or interpreted?

• How is energy transferred and conserved?

• How do human decisions related to design, materials, and systems can impact the environment?

About Missions in Action

It is shown in the videos how child sponsorship can and has helped some of the many children to escape poverty through having an education and thinking of providing their families with a better future and facilities that they aren’t usually born with.