Starting tomorrow till Sunday, April 28th, 2013, Sweetly Bitten was asked to participate and was gladly and honorably accepted this great opportunity to share and help.



It is always good to give back.



You are cordially invited and show your support for this three day event, if not in spirit or you can send us your donation! Please send your information to: meowiesfoodies@gmail.com, for more inquiries please send an SMS to 087-472-0686. We thank you kindly!



Every little thing counts and we highly appreciate it! Each cupcakes that you buy, the proceeds will go to the foundation. For more information:

Global Action Week is almost here! April 26-28th at Central Airport Plaza, 2nd Floor!



Take a look at this year's Global Campaign for Education and then take action! In Chiang Mai, we're not only focusing on quality education for Thai children, we also want to emphasize the alarming need for trained and qualified educators in marginalized Indigenous communities across northern Thailand. Remote, disenfranchised and often stateless, Indigenous villages face insurmountable challenges in attaining rights to primary, secondary and higher education schools. The CRC Advocacy team is taking advantage of 2013's Global Action Week to put these issues at the forefront and make overcoming the challenges, possible.

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Excerpt from GCE (http://everychildneedsateacher.org/):

Since 2000, the world has made good progress in getting tens of millions of children into school – but in 2008, that progress stopped. Today, 132 million children remain out of primary and lower secondary school,

with little or no hope of ever learning how to read or write, with little or no hope of breaking the cycle of poverty.







The single biggest thing we can do to give these children a chance to realise their right to education is make sure each and every one of them has access to a trained teacher.



However, there is an acute shortage of teachers. To get every child into primary school, we need 1.7 million more teachers – 1 million more in Africa alone.

In addition, we must ensure that each new teacher - and each existing teacher - has quality initial and ongoing training. Training of teachers is absolutely vital to ensure that being in school also means ‘learning’, but right now many of the children who have made it into a classroom may well be there with poorly-trained teachers – and could well leave primary education barely able to read or write.

We need to make sure that all teachers – new recruits as well as those already in classrooms – are well-trained, have access to ongoing training and are treated as professionals – with decent pay and conditions.

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If governments truly value learning, then they must value teachers. The Global Campaign for Education wants world leaders to acknowledge that Every Child Needs a Teacher, and to take firm action to make this a reality.

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Overall demands:



Standards: governments and their international partners must recognise the necessity for professionally trained, qualified, supported teachers, and develop policies and standards for teacher recruitment, training, development, salaries and conditions that reflect this.
Planning and reporting: governments must develop costed plans to fill the gap in trained teachers and ensure that the plan addresses disparities between regions, in rural and remote areas and report publicly on progress against these plans and on the Pupil-to-Trained-Teacher Ratio (PTTR); donors should publish and report on their planned contribution to filling the trained teacher gap.
Finance: governments must develop and implement budgets that will ensure that the trained teacher gap is filled – including necessary recruitment, training and professional-standard pay; donors should allocate at least 10% of their ODA to basic education and provide more aid through predictable, long-term budget support.