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Greeting from Jeannie Vogt
Hi,
Welcome to the Jeannie Vogt Homepage. My name is Jeannie Vogt. I'm Thai and my Thai name is Chintana.
My husband is German so my last name is Vogt.
This homepage tells you about the Thai villages and my volunteer work for the children in these villages..
First of all I would like to tell you about my volunteer work in these Thai villages. My husband and I came to
Japan in 1986 and I started to do the charity work with Japanese housewives group called NICCO Group
who help Cambodian Refugee. The camp was in Surin inside Thailand near the Cambodian border
and I found that there were many Thai people in Surin who were as poor as the Cambodian refugees.
In recent years, the economic progress in Thailand has been great,
many people became rich in Bangkok and in some other cities,
but on the other hand there are still many very poor people in
rural towns and villages, especially in the Northeastern part of
Thailand. In these areas there are often floods in the rainy season
and drought in the dry season. No matter how hard the people
works, they cannot overcome their poverty. Children don’t have
enough food to eat nor clothes to wear. I myself come from
Bangkok and I was shocked to see these poor children who
don’t have anything.
They needed my help, so in 1990 I decided to establish a volunteer
group named Chintana Vogt Fund Group.
I also taught Thai cookery for 18 years in Japan and Korea and have donated all the proceeds of the lessons
to the Chintana Vogt Fund Group. So I'll also tell you about Thai food and my Thai cooking classes too.
Jeannie Vogt
October 2010
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Helping Thai children benefits our own students as well. Thai students who strive to do their best encourage CA students to challenge themselves to their potential. This project also helps our students develop their self-esteem and confidence. Students often think that they have to wait until they become adults to contribute to the society, but this project makes them aware that they can make a difference to someone’s life, someone their own age, by providing a 6,000 yen scholarship a year per student. This amount is equivalent to a CA student saving 500 yen by not buying five soft drinks a month.
The four CA students who traveled with me to Thailand were very surprised to know that Jeannie started this projecttwenty-two years ago, long before they were born. They were convinced that CA should continue efforts to support Thai children. Read the following quotes from these students.
Matthew Lee // Aili Middleton // David Lee
Maiko Sho // and Sasipote Tangtiang from Thailand
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Latest news from Jeannie Vogt
I am very happy to tell you that this year our Kongtun (Fund) Chintana Vogt has finally been registered to be Moonnithi (Foundation) Chintana Vogt which is registered to the Interior Ministry Office. We went to give the scholarships to the students from January 10 to 15, 2011.
Thank you so much for their continuous help and support to our Thai Village Children Group. Our members, teachers, students and I are very grateful to you. We will remember you always in our prayers.
 
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