22 Dec 07

Please go to the centre page so read the latest on the building of the new centre.

On an entirely different subject after several meetings with the Phuket director of Education we have now got the green light to start an education program within the Thai schools here. Gill has been working around the clock preparing the lessons and our first class will be on January 4th., with pupils from Talang school. (There are 60 secondary schools on Phuket)! The picture below is of Gill presenting copies of a book about a Phuket street dog to pupils from 16 of these schools who attended a conference in Phuket City last week.

Also in January we have 2 Australian vets scheduled and a team from the University of Michigan.
A film crew from Channel News Asia (Singapore's principal news channel) arrive on January 2nd for 3 days to a documentary on Gill and her work with the dogs despite losing her legs 3 years ago, which will be screened in 15 Asian countries. The Channel have named Gill as one of their annual Asians of the year, and she is the first non Asian by birth to receive the award. All helps to spread the word about Soi Dog in this part of the world.