{"id":231,"date":"2025-10-28T12:18:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T12:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisom.ac.th\/english\/?p=231"},"modified":"2025-10-28T12:56:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T12:56:01","slug":"onsite-lodgings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisom.ac.th\/english\/2025\/10\/28\/onsite-lodgings\/","title":{"rendered":"Onsite lodgings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been feverish activity over the last week or so. Our Outdoor volunteer team, along with Thai volunteers, have been busy helping to build a home for our two onsite staff &#8211; P&#8217;Aye and P&#8217;Silom.<\/p>\n<p>P&#8217;Aye is responsible for overseeing the construction work at the project, and will also be the general manager of the farmstay once it&#8217;s up and running. He&#8217;s an adept guitarist and also plays the violin. Until recently, when we asked him to assume this role, P&#8217;Aye was our manager at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baanpordeedin.com\/index.php\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Baan Pordeedin guesthouse<\/a>\u00a0in Chiang Rai city &#8211; our social enterprise project, generating income to support our work.<\/p>\n<p>P&#8217;Silom came to us originally as Thai volunteer teacher &#8211; we run a monthly programme for groups of Thai volunteers to spend a long weekend in a community, working on service programme as well as teaching Thai language to the local children (whose first language will be their ethnic tongue). P&#8217;Silom returned to work in our FreeSchools project and has been a great addition to the team. As the Rai Som school project is now part of the FreeSchools project, we have asked P&#8217;Silom to base himself onsite at the school, along with P&#8217;Aye. His tasks revolve around the school part of the project &#8211; coordinating activities, workshops for teaching staff, liaising with donors and volunteers (Thai), and helping Kru Daow (our school principal).<\/p>\n<p>Their accommodation is the first building onsite to be completed. It means that we can organise our schedules, materials, and labour more effectively, while also cutting travel costs &#8211; the school is nearly 3 hours drive from our base.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-232 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raisom.ac.th\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/S__24780808-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raisom.ac.th\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/S__24780808-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.raisom.ac.th\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/S__24780808-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.raisom.ac.th\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/S__24780808-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.raisom.ac.th\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/S__24780808.jpg 1478w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been feverish activity over the last week or so. 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