TAT welcomes first volunteer from ‘First Mover Oceania Market’ project

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Australian gap year student, Ms. Louise Pollard, will teach English in Hua Hin after quarantine

 

TAT Newsroom

 

Bangkok, 31 March, 2021 – The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is pleased to welcome the first volunteer from the “First Mover Oceania Market” project, Ms. Louise Pollard, who arrived in Thailand on 27 March and successfully entered quarantine.

 

Her travel to Thailand was facilitated by the TAT South Asia and South Pacific Market Division, including coordinating with the alternative state quarantine (ASQ) hotel, the Gold Orchid Hotel in Bangkok, for the mandatory quarantine period. TAT also made sure that her entry followed procedures in compliance with all public health requirements according to regulations set by Thailand’s Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA).

 

The First Mover Oceania Market project is a collaboration between the TAT Sydney Office and Global Work & Travel Company, one of the world’s leading work and travel brands, to bring to Thailand volunteers who can make constructive contributions to Thai society at large.

 

The first volunteer under the project, Ms. Pollard is an Australian gap year student who will teach English in Hua Hin after quarantine.

 

The project will also help promote several TAT’s projects including the Amazing Thailand Safety and Health Administration (SHA) certification, to build confidence of the international travel community in the kingdom’s strict safety and hygiene protocols for the prevention and control of COVID-19.

 

Source: https://www.tatnews.org/2021/03/tat-welcomes-first-volunteer-from-first-mover-oceania-market-project/

 

[ChrisY1]

Ok...one teacher for Hua Hin....that should solve the language issues here!

[connda]

I wonder how much she is paying for the privilege of volunteering?

Amazing that Thailand refuses to use the largely untapped human resources within the expat communities that are already living in the country.

Like me.  I'm a fully qualified NES instructor with three years of teaching experience in Thailand and multiple years teaching computer technology in the West.  As far as I can see there are no programs or interest in using my skill-sets, well unless you mean those scam volunteer agency that charge you 30K or 40K a month for the privilege of volunteering.  Yeah - never! Ever!

If Thailand had progressive, forward thinking government administrators they could develop programs to use local expat talent in the communities where they live.  Instead, there is no actual interest and a ton of roadblocks.  They collectively fail to grasp that giving through volunteer work is a Western cultural trait.  Instead in their backward thinking all they perceive is that sneaky farang try to trick good, honest Thai people.  By engaging in selfless volunteer work?  Ah-huh. Ok. Whatever.  It's too bad, but it's pretty indicative of this rather backward third-world country mentality that is seeped in xenophobic fear of foreign outsiders.  Even in this time of closed borders and lack of teaching resources.

"Oh, but all that change when Thailand go back to normal", they mistakenly think.

Sorry Sonchai, but the world is never going "back to normal."  The likes of EU and UK leaders are putting together plans that promise that the future will consist of unending pandemics <search on "World leaders call for international pandemic treaty">.  "New variants", new pandemics, closed borders, travel restrictions,and lack of foreign human resources due to cross-border travel restrictions and outright fear will be the norm in the future. 

So the future will be quarantines and puff-pieces about selfless foreigners enduring the expense and rigors of a bureaucratic gauntlet of regulations and quarantines for the honor of volunteering in Thailand.  And nary a word about developing programs to tap into the potential of expat human resources that already exist in Thailand - expats living here in Thai communities today. 

What a waste.

 

Edited April 1, 2021 by connda

[Burma Bill]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

is an Australian gap year student who will teach English in Hua Hin

With respect;-

 

• Wrap your laughing gear 'round that.
• Dog's breakfast. ...
• Tell him he's dreaming. ...
• A few stubbies short of a six-pack. ...
• What's the John Dory? ...
• Have a Captain Cook. ...
• No worries, mate, she'll be right. ...
• Fair go, mate. Fair suck of the sauce bottle.

[Cake Monster]

10 hours ago, webfact said:

The project will also help promote several TAT’s projects including the Amazing Thailand Safety and Health Administration (SHA) certification, to build confidence of the international travel community in the kingdom’s strict safety and hygiene protocols for the prevention and control of COVID-19.

I am not so sure that this project will promote anything.

The only thing that will promote confidence in Thailand is for at least 70% of the entire population to be Vaccinated.

And that is not happening any time soon.