BEST wishes to our nursing student friends!

BEST Director, Murray Forgie is currently in Thailand interviewing students for BEST scholarship and visiting our friends in Hlee Bee.

The teddies that have been collected by Forthview Nursery for Hlee Bee nursery who have no toys to play with, will be sent by our school by cargo boat, but Murray will be able to give our cards and a big photo of the nursery children with their teddies to Hlee Bee Nursery.

In Bangkok, as well as interviewing potential new students for Supplementary Scholarship Grant form BEST, Murray bought a group of nursing students a lap top each. These students are from inside Burma and from along the border area and have no computers to help them study – the University library in Bangkok has only 20 computers for 2000 students. Most of the other students are from well-off Thai families, who can afford to buy computers for their sons and daughters.

The Burmese students have no access to this sort of money, so BEST ran a special campaign to buy them each a lap top, which means they can down load files from the internet on memory sticks and study them later in their apartments.

Many thanks to all those who helped BEST raise this money – especially UNISON the public service trade union, who also gave special memory sticks and other small individual presents to these students.

Two of the students are from Mae Sot and have cousins who are pupils of Hlee Bee School.