Problem statement
Lack
of weekend activities is the main problem for unparented children who live in SAW
Safe House. There are no long-term volunteer to conduct activities for the
children and they do not have enough playing materials to conduct activities.
The old materials are broken because there are less staff to take care of
playing materials. Due to that children are fighting each other about the game
materials and they bully and misunderstand each other. Furthermore, staff are
very busy with their daily responsibilities, therefore they are not able to
play with the children. According to interview with staff, at least 2 children
are getting injuries per week. Furthermore, 5 children claim that they feel
bored and miserable because of activity. Children are playing dangerous games
such as following each other and catching by running in the road. So, 20 out of
45 children want to read books in weekend.
Project
To
solve this problem, WH students introduce 4 sessions of weekend activities in
every Saturday started from 13 February to 5 March 2016 for 45 children ages
between 6 and 13 to improve their physical and mental abilities while having
fun. Children will be less bully and will encourage each other to play safe
games. They will get new game materials, sport materials and story books such
as dual language books (Thai to English and English to Thai) from this project.
Moreover, children will be able to promote team work with a good relationship
each other while they are playing the games.
Thus,
8 students from WH conducted weekend activities with the children at SAW Safe
House. We conducted 4 days weekend activities on 20, 21, 27 February and 5
March 2016. We bought 4 types of materials such as dual-language books,
exercise materials, sport materials and game materials. In game materials, we
delivered problem solving game (domino, four connect), board game (snake &
ladders, mix up words) and educational game (flash card words, time telling
clock) to unparented children. Averagely about 29 children joined at activity
daily.
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Problem
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Project
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Implementation
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1. Lack
of activities at the weekend for forty five unparented children who live in SAW
Safe House.
2. No
volunteer to conduct activities for the children.
3. Not
enough playing materials at SAW Safe House.
4. Staff
are very busy to play with children.
5. Old
materials are broken because no one take care of playing materials.
6. They
fight each other about the game.
7. They
are bully and misunderstand each other.
8. Every
week two children got injuries for every week. ( head and leg injuries)
9. Children
have lack of problem solve this game because they don’t have any book to read
in SAW Safe House.
10. Five
children claim that they feel bored and miserable because of no activity.
11. Children
are playing dangerous games such as follow each other and catching by running
Quantitative :
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Forty children aged between 6 to 13.
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Twenty children want to read books.
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Once a week training for four
weeks.
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Two staff will manage the materials
for sustainability.
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Seven full- time staff.
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Eighty three children in total age
between one to eighteen years old.
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Goal:
To
introduce more productive weekend activities for unpatented children in SAW Safe
House which they can self-organize.
Objective:
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Provide dual-language books (Thai
to Eng.) for children aged between six to thirteen years old who live in SAW Safe
House to improve their comprehension in school in Feb 2016.
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Provide sufficient sports and
educational playing materials that are safe in Feb 2016 for children aged
between 6 to 13 years old who live in SAW Safe House to improve their
Physical and mental abilities while having fun.
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Conduct four sessions of play and
education activities over one month for two hours per session every weekend
for 45 unparented children aged between six to thirteen years old in SAW Safe
House in 13 Feb to 5 March 2016.
Impact:
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Children will be less bully and
will encourage each other to play a safer games.
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They will get new games material
and story books.
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They can develop their physical and
mental abilities.
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They will be able to promote team
work with good relationship between each other.
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They will improve in problem
solving skills.
Proposed
Materials:
Game materials and
duals language book Thai to English and English to Thai
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Eight
students from WH conducted activities with books and playing materials on 20,
21, 27 February and 5 March 2016 with 29 children in the SAW Safe House.
There
are materials that we provided to SAW Safe House.
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4 types of books
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19 types of games
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5 types of exercise playing
materials
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All in all, we provided with the following list are
playing materials and books to the SAW Safe House children.
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Type
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Quantity
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Name
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Books
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4 pieces
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Dual-language story books
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12 pieces
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Dual-language comic books
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3 pieces
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Dual-language picture dictionary
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2 pieces
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Dual-language posters
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Games
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5 sets
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Problem solving game (Domino)
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1 set
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Problem solving game (Block)
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3 sets
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Critical thinking (Creative shape of
toy)
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4 sets
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Problem solving game (Four connect)
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2 sets
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Board game (Mix up - words)
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5 sets
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Board game (Snake and ladders)
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4 sets
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Problem solving game (jigsaw)
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3 sets
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Educational game (Flash cards-words)
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3 sets
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Educational game (Time telling-clock)
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1 piece
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Educational game (Time telling game)
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3 pieces
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Critical thinking game (Magic)
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2pieces
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Critical thinking game (Magic cube)
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2sets
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Problem solving game (Bolin)
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2 sets
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Critical thinking game (Bingo)
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1 set
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Educational game (Spendy game)
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1 set
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Problem solving game(Monopoly)
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1 piece
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Critical thinking game (Football toy)
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4 pieces
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Mathematic game (Circle Arrow)
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1 set
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Bracelet
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Exercise
materials
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3 pieces
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Hula hoop
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5 pieces
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Balls
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2 pieces
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Sort balls
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4 pieces
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Jumping rope
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1 pair
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Black board and chalk box (for drawing
pictures and calculating Math)
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Figure 1 all
playing materials and books that we, organizers, provided to SAW Safe
House.
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Current Situation
Currently,
there are 83 unpatented children who
are living in SAW Safe House. However,
our target group is 45 children aged between 6 to13 years old. The majority of children
have more activities with books and playing materials in weekends. According to
small group discussion with 16 children, all of them have more activities and
feel happy in the weekends because they can choose playing materials or books
they prefer. Due to a child, Yuzana said “I am very happy and grateful to enjoy
with playing materials and books. I really thank to the organizers who provide
meaningful weekends for us with playing materials and books.”
SAW
Safe House assistant coordinator said, “Children feel happy with these playing
materials and books in the weekends.” Furthermore, among all books and playing
materials, what all the children like the most.
The
top 5 games are:
1) Bingo
(35 voted)
2) Monopoly
(33 voted)
3) Balls
(30 voted)
4) Four
connect (29 voted)
5) Building
block (25 voted)
Figure 2
children are voting their favorite games.
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According
to interview the staff, children have more activities and they do not feel
sleepy in the weekends. Moreover, all the children who participate at the
activities well understand how to play game materials and enjoyed to read
dual-language books. Sometimes SAW Safe House’s staff allowed children to play
in weekdays when children requested. Then, they also supervise when children
are playing not only in the morning but also in the evening in weekends. 2 of
the staff take responsibility to maintain books and playing materials in their
bed rooms with boxes.
SAW
Safe House’s assistant coordinator said, “This project creates not only a
meaningful weekends for children but also gave the staff more free times.” We
could say we solved the community’s problem. Based on 4 days weekend activities
using playing, we could said that children have more protected activities
during the weekend. According to one organizer interview, “The children are
very clever. We realize that we are no longer to supervise on previous playing materials
and reading books after second week of implementation. Furthermore, we really feel
happy when we see that children have enough materials and books at the
weekend.”
After
the project implementation, 2 books and 1 of playing material which is called
circle arrow had broken because 2 children were grabbing the books and playing
material each other.
Challenges / Problems
According
to observation, we founded that 2 of the male children seem like they have more
power than other children because other children are afraid when they bully on other
young children. They always try to grab other children playing materials even
though there are enough playing materials. Thus, there are some arguments
between our target children based on some playing materials. Additionally,
children are very noisy when they are playing games. The staff worry that
neighborhood will blame on them.
SAW
Safe House assistant coordinator and another staff will supervise when children
are playing game to control bullying and noise by sitting beside of the
children. SAW Safe House assistant coordinator announced that they are going to
cut down children pocket money if they destroyed any playing materials and it
will continue until the money is enough to replace it. Moreover, the staff will
let the children to play the materials for 2 hours per weekend. However, if the
children would like to play during week days the staff will let them play for 1
hour at evening.
Additionally,
2 of organizers will take place to evaluate with evolution question lists on second
time of the project in the first week of June. During this time, organizers
will know the condition of materials and they will write second evaluation of
report to the donor.
Methodology
This
project’s evaluation was taken by WH students Edward, Mu Ku, Than Maung, Zoaw
Htaw, War, Jalorn and John on March 5, 2016 at SAW Safe House. Edward interviewed
the staff, and Mu Ku and John lead the small group discussion with the
children. The rest students did observation the playing materials and record
all information that they have found based on their observation. Below are the
questions we had planned to use in the interview.
Evaluation questions
1. How
many children are currently living in SAW Safe House?
2. Do
the children use our materials at Sunday?
3. How
many males and females are participating in game?
4. Which
games do they like the most?
5. Are
the games materials enough for them?
6. If
no, why doesn't enough for all?
7. Do
they still argue/bully each other for play games?
8. Do
children still fight about the materials?
9. How
many children are still fighting?
10. Why
do the fight?
11. After
implement, do they still get injury?
12. How
many children get injury? Why?
13. Do
they still sleepy at the weekend play games? If yes, How many? Why?
14. Do
they understand the games instruction?
15. How
many children are reading the books in the weakened? Before? After?
16. How
old are they?
17. Who
will manage the playing materials?
18. How
do he/she manage/keep playing materials?
19. How
often they take out the game for children play?
20. How
they manage the children to play the games at the weekend?
21. How
many day children used to playing materials per week?
22. How
many hours did children use to playing materials?
23. Do
they like the organizer that conduct activities with them? If no, why?
24. How
they damaged the materials?
25. If
yes, which materials did they damage?
26. Why
did materials damaged?
27. How
many children can apply by reading books in their lesson?
Wide Horizons Coordinator
Name:
Mg Myo Htun
Phone:
0956066973
E-mail:
maungmyohtunwh@gmail.com
P.O
Box-27, Mae Sot, Tak, 63110
Wide Horizons Office Assistant
Name:
Aung Than
Phone:
0881564778
SAWSafe House Program manager
Name:
Ms. Lin Dar
Phone:
0895068458
Wide Horizons Student
Name:
Jalorn
Phone:
0932700319
