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!

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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.

Fund Isaan is very happy to announce that in 2014, 21 students that received scholarships through Fund Isaan have graduated!

2 students, Kwan and Benz, completed their education at the Nursing College in Surin and have since started working as a nurse at the Sikhorapum and Lamduan hospitals. We are very proud to have been there during their graduation ceremony. Benz's sponsor even travelled all the way from Europe to Surin, Thailand to attend her graduation ceremony!

In 2013, we can continue our IT projects in Thailand with the help of ASML Foundation. This year, we have chosen to replace 2 computer classes installed by Fund Isaan in 2009. Both Saikeaw School and Khokyang school have been very valuable partners to us over the past years. Their dedication to improve the level of education inspired us to continue our cooperation with them. Our original contract, which ended in 2012, specified that Fund Isaan would support their computer class for 3 years.

On August 20 2012, Fund Isaan, financially supported by the ASML Foundation, installed computer classes in two new schools in the Isaan region: Ban Srakeaw School and Ban Tamieng School, both situated in the province of Surin, close to the Cambodian border. Fund Isaan donated and installed 20 computers to Ban Srakeaw School and Ban Tamieng School.

On August 22, 2012 we replaced the computer class in Cheupleung School, that was installed by Fund Isaan over 4 years ago. Also this necessary replacement was made possible thanks to the financial support of the ASML Foundation.

Another year has passed and of course, another batch of computer classes have been installed! We installed two computer classes in about half a day of work. This is only possible because of the preparation we do back in Belgium, which takes a lot longer than half a day. In the end, the quick installations meant we had more time to explain the classes and the provided software to the IT teachers.

The schools that received computer classes form us this year are: