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Thai Student in the USA. Rainbow Gifts-USA and Youth For Understanding Thailand have worked together to finance a student exchange year. A student has been picked from the mahout families and the general worker families at the Lampang Elephant Center. Her name is Budsayamas "Joy" Jitsuk. YFU Thailand is paying all the Thailand costs for her. Rainbow Gifts-USA is paying for the YFU-USA part of the trip. Normally, the families at the camp would not be able to afford such an undertaking. YFU Thailand and Rainbow Gifts-USA feel this is our way of giving them an opportunity that they, otherwise, could not afford. (June 2009) See below for pictures and information on Joy.
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director of YFU Thailand and the director of the Thai Elephant Training Camp
near Lampang, Thailand made the selection of "Joy". who lives at the
Elephant Conservation Camp where our EDP products are made. She lived in Atwater, CA for the school year.
Joy
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1. Joy and her family in her neighborhood. 2. With her family in front of her house. 3. Elephant training grounds nearby.
4. Joy, 4th from right, with Prasop, the director of the camp and the six other nominees. 5. Joy's dad with his elephant, A.I.
Click to enlarge pictures.
Project:
"Share a Smile for the Elephants"
By Budsayamas "Joy" Jitsuk and friends
This project is for helping the Thai Asian elephants of the Thai Elephant Conservation Center, at Lampang, Thailand. All money (100%) collected from donations or sales on this page goes directly to the Conservation Center for food, medicine and the care of elephants there.
Currently there are about 50 elephants at the center and about 13 elephants at the hospital. At the Lampang Rest Center there are about 29 elephants. This is the last home of elephants in their old age. It is a center for elephants that can't work or are so old that they can't care for themselves without help.
One problem all the elephants have is feeding themselves. Their big bodies need a lot of food. In one day an elephant eats about 400 pounds of food, so in the Conservation Center more than 20,000 lbs. of food are needed daily. In addition, medicine is needed for treatment every day at the hospital there.
So, this is the reason for the "Share a Smile for the Elephants" project. We want to help support the elephants that are a part of our everyday lives. Please, won't you spare a few dollars to help save the elephants of northern Thailand? We need food, medicine, and proper care.
Won't you "Share a Smile?"
Joy returned home 23 June 2010 and still hopes to collect donations.
Above is Joy with her father and their elephant A.I.
Please consider making a donation below. Select an amount and it will be added to your order.
I will send an elephant picture to you with a personal message.
Signed, Joy
| Every morning before breakfast I think of 6 impossible
dreams. (Alice - Alice in Wonderland)
This is one of them ....... Joy |
Elephant Fact: An elephant does not drink through its
trunk. Each suck of a drinking elephant can take in 5-10 litres of
water at a time. It is then deposited from the trunk to the mouth.