Bangkok--8 Dec--Right To Play Thailand Foundation
FOSTERING NETWORKS OF PARTNERS AND RECOGNIZING THE CHILDREN'S VOICE
TO SUPPORT LIFE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Right To Play Thailand Foundation organized a "3rd Partners in Life Skills Forum: LIFE SKILLS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT" in November 2014 at the Fourwings Hotel Bangkok welcoming reputable guest speakers and education experts from Royal Thai Ministry of Education, Royal Thai Ministry of Justice, Children and Adolescent Mental Health Rajanagarindra Institute (CAMRI), Central Juvenile and Family Court, Rakdek: the Life Skills Development Foundation and Right To Play Thailand's representatives to discuss and share ideas, successes and challenges as well as seek common action points to create sustainable change and make life skills development through integrated learning effective for children and youth in Thailand.
The forum consisted of roundtable discussion and interactive exhibit from teachers, children and youth to share ideas and create a better understanding of the importance of Life Skills Development for children and youth in Thailand. The shared idea is an important voice of children and youth – the direct beneficiaries – reflecting their own development needs. Furthermore, the forum is a space for the children and youth to demonstrate their leadership skill, team-working skill, planning skill, communication skill and life skills through activities in the interactive exhibit in the afternoon. All presented activities have been really implemented in schools and Youth Rehabilitation Centers by themselves.
Right To Play's Life Skills programming is working in partnership with INGOs, local NGOs, and government agencies from a range of humanitarian fields including Foundation for Rural Youth, Plan International, Friends International Peace Corps Thailand as well as Dhammajarinee Wittaya School to extend its sphere of influence to promote quality education through activity based and reflective learning together with child centered approach.
Right To Play Thailand Foundation has developed and implemented activity-based learning program associated with developing life skills through a learner centered and experiential learning model in partnership with Office of the Basic Education Commission (OBEC), Ministry of Education since 2007.
In 2013, we reached 40 schools in Trang, Satun, Songkla, Phuket, Bangkok and Nakhonsawan and engaged more than 500 teachers and 15,000 students through regular classroom activities and special events.