Truck |
Office administrative costs |
| Used truck to transport children to public school and on various field trips and to activities. Transport animal food from the market to the farm, and other miscellaneous transportation activities | To fund the ongoing running costs of the OPC office |
Costing: Vechicle purchase - 200,000 THB Petrol – 200 THB/month Licensing costs – 5,000 THB |
Costing: Staff salaries - 6000 THB Paper, office supplies, electricity and misc operational costs – 800 THB Intern salary – 3000 THB |
Rationale: Currently we pay a member of the Mae Hong Son community 7,000 THB per month to transport the OPC children to their public school. This is a high expense and is not a good sustainable option for the OPC learning center. |
Rationale: The office is where all of the fundraising and project management for OPC takes place. It is also a place for training interns in computer skills, English, and office management. We teach our Evening advanced English class at the office and house many of our volunteers in the two bedrooms attached to the building. |
Shelter operation costs |
Farm operation costs |
| Ongoing running costs for OPC shelter | Ongoing running costs for the OPC farm |
Costing: Fuel for the generator - 1000 THB Guardian salaries - 2000 THB Food for the children - 1000 THB Clothing and hygiene supplies for children - 500 THB Bedding set for cold season - 300 THB / Blanket and Pillow |
Training course for OPC students - Variable Money for fish, pig and chicken food - 500 THB Money for egg chickens - 500 THB Purchase of land next to OPC shelter (to be used as additional vegetable growing farm land - 50,000 baht |
Rationale: The OPC shelter is currently running on a skeleton budget. We only use our generator for electricity for a few hours in the evening. The children mostly eat food that is donated by the Thai-Burmese Border Consortium (TBBC) in the form of rice, soya beans, oil, and salt. They also eat vegetables that the cook gathers from the forest surrounding the shelter. The children rarely eat meat. |
Rationale: The farm is an excellent teaching tool for us to give the children vocational training in organic and sustainable farming. We have a full-time farmer who acts as a care-taker and teacher. The children are given lessons in life-skills that they will need when they leave the OPC shelter. |