Student Life and Service
High School Clubs Health Hero The Health Hero Club is a dedicated group of students passionate about promoting health, safety, and medical knowledge within our school and community. Our mission is to raise awareness, teach life-saving techniques, and provide hands-on opportunities to explore the medical field. On January 22nd, 2025, we hosted a CPR Workshop in collaboration with First Aid Training Bangkok Company, equipping students and teachers with essential emergency response skills. The workshop covered a comprehensive range of life-saving techniques, including scene assessment, primary response evaluation, and critical first-aid principles. Participants learned to identify medical emergencies such as cardiac arrest, heart attacks, strokes, choking, and complete airway obstruction and respond effectively. The hands-on training focused on performing CPR with proper Habitat for Humanity chest compressions and rescue breaths, using AEDs (Automated External Defibrillators), and placing unconscious individuals in the Habitat for Humanity is a student-led school service club recovery position. with a goal of promoting affordable housing and community development for all communities in Thailand. Our club works to Looking ahead, we plan to expand CPR training, introduce new raise awareness, volunteer, and fundraise to support families in health and safety workshops, and encourage members to design need of safe and decent shelter. Through hands-on projects such informative posters to enhance awareness. We also aim to as site buildings and fundraisers, our members aim to make a provide volunteering and hospital internship opportunities to meaningful impact in people’s lives with better housing units and deepen medical knowledge and service-mindedness. We’re facilities. excited for another impactful semester of learning and community engagement! In the first semester, our club organized several successful Im & Ben (G12), Health Hero Co-Presidents activities. We attended school sport events such as football tournaments, and school club events such as the Hoops for Hearts basketball tournament, and raised funds for our site building project on May 22nd. Our members successfully raised enough funds and were able to attend the site building, helping a family at Pathum Thani construct the base cement floor for their home expansion.
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Looking ahead, our second-semester plans are even more ambitious. Already, we have attended one of the biggest school events of the year, Zanook, and raised over 9000 baht for our cause. Almost 20 of our club members have also already attended the second big site building project for this school year, set in Ayutthaya, where we built the ground floor for a traditional Thai home. Our members learned many things from this project, including how to mix cement, what structures must be built and put into place before pouring cement, and how building even a small part of a house is no easy job. All in all, this year was eventful for the Habitat for Humanity service club. We are excited to see what next year will bring! Rika (G10), Habitat for Humanity President