If you are unfamiliar with Operation Smile, please note their mission statement:
Throughout the world, Operation Smile volunteers repair childhood facial deformities while building public and private partnerships that advocate for sustainable healthcare systems for children and families. Together, we create smiles, change lives, and heal humanity.
https://www.operationsmile.or.th/
Last year, students at International School Bangkok raised over 600,000 baht for Operation Smile through games, raffles, and the selling of Operation Smile merchandise. During November of 2010 and February 2010, middle school students and high school students also took part in medical missions where they were able to experience first-hand the amazing work Operation Smile does to a change children’s lives. This year we will be sending sixteen committed middle school students to Mae Sot from 2-5 November to participate.
Each November, ISB middle and high schools jointly sponsor Operation Smile Week, our biggest event of the year. Our goal is to raise awareness about Operation Smile’s work and funds to further those efforts. The most popular event of Operation Smile Week is our culminating raffle. Last year, prizes included accommodation vouchers for AANA Resort in Koh Chang, Zeavola Resort on Koh Phi Phi, Hotel de la Paix in Siem Reap, the Amari Atrium Hotel in Bangkok and the Dusit Thani in Bangkok. In addition, we received dining vouchers from River Side Luxury Cruise Ship, Roadhouse Barbecue, the Conrad Hotel, Molly Malone’s and Great American Rib as well as phones from Blackberry and computer products from Acer. In exchange for these gracious donations, we are able to advertise these businesses to the ISB community of over 2000 students and families.
If anyone in the community is interested in helping us with this event through raffle prize donations (for either students or adults), please contact a Grade 6 teacher (or James Denby,jamesd@isb.ac.th). Your support makes this fundraiser possible. Thank you in advance for your help.
Sincerely,
The Grade 6 Faculty
International School Bangkok
Operation Smile Middle School Coordinator
02-963-5800 ext. 4479