Thanks to the Internet we are all connected, even when we are volunteering on the other side of the world. Felix started his volunteering adventure in Thailand since the beginning of January. Through text and pictures you can follow his activities while teaching high school students at Saikeaw Wittaya School in Surin, Thailand on his blog (Dutch).

Our cooperation with the Odisee College in Belgium was recently featured in Het Nieuwsblad, a leading Belgian Newspaper! The article, titled 'Odisee College sends their students across the whole world', shows the many ways in which Odisee students can perform an internship abroad. Fund Isaan is honored to work together with such an innovative organisation and we hope to send many more student teachers from the Odisee College to Thailand in the future.

The latest Fund Isaan volunteer to travel to Thailand was Maarten Kerkhofs, who worked at the Naraikhampong School. He was our first volunteer there, which can be an extra challenge.

August 2015. A team of volunteers lands in Bangkok. Their task: install five computer classes at primary and secondary schools in the provinces of Roi-Et, Buriram and Surin, and repair & update all classes installed in the last three years. Timeframe: two weeks. Impossible? Not for this team: Klaas Vandeweerdt from Deloitte and Jelle Slowack and Yvan Piens from Delaware Consulting.

Fund Isaan has been active for a little over 8 years now. We have been able to do so many things to improve the education and economy in Isaan, Thailand. We couldn't have done it without you! Thanks to everybody for supporting, sponsoring or volunteering with us!

Click 'Read more' to see a short video that showcases some of our realizations in Isaan.

On March 9th and 10th, Arnold and Brigitte Raicher, representatives of Fund Isaan sponsor 3AMB visited our organisation in Thailand. Together with Fund Isaan founder Rony Wuytjens, they visited schools and scholarship students and even had the chance to hand over scholarships for the next term.

In October 2014, Fund Isaan was visited by reporters and a camera crew from the National News Bureau of Thailand and Radio Thailand Surin. Articles about our activities were published in a magazine published by the news bureau in Surin and on their nation-wide websites. At the time of this writing, a TV feature on Fund Isaan is also being prepared.

The published article can be read on the following websites (in Thai). A free translation is reproduced below.

In June 2014, Fund Isaan installed 3 new computer classes in primary school throughout the Surin province. In the past, Fund Isaan has always worked with high schools, providing them with computer classes to aid in the development of Isaan’s youth. Over the years, we have seen that the Thai government has started more and more initiatives to provide technological education and materials such as computers to high schools.