Years previously I hear of this Baha’I school and wished to visit one day.
That wish came true in 1986 in Bangkok when an LSA member asked me to make a trip to Yasothon Town Santitham School. I do not have to do any teaching or do any volunteer service there. My job is a simple but great honored mission : To accompany Mrs. Shirine Fozdar to Santitham School.
And Mrs. Shirine Fozdar is the founder of Santitham Vidhayakhom School in Yasothon Town of North Thailand.
It was an over night bus trip from Bangkok City at night and reaching Yasothon early in the morning. The bus journey may be comfortable to us but may not for Shirine Fozdar. Not because of her age but because of ……………………
......... Just a year before, Mrs. Fozdar accidentally fall down in the school compound and seriously broke a leg. She had to be specially attended to and transported back to Singapore from Thailand. Though the school is in Thailand, Singapore is where she lives and where she would recuperate her leg and health.
Now a year has passed, and she is now strong and energy to return where she last fall. This was the timing I happen to met her at Bangkok and would accompany her to return to her school………………………..
The bus reached Yasothon early morning. I was suppose to be the nurse providing services and convenient to an eldery but not. I was new in Thailand and spoke no Thai (except Ning, Song, Sam, Si, Ha, Taulai ). Getting down from the bus I was lost not knowing what to do. Instead Mrs. Fozdar shout out loud to some men opposite the road:
“Samlo! Samlo!”
Instantly, a bicycle richshow rush to her side with smiling face. Another few more words in Thai from Mrs. Fozdar and off we went to her school her long to see again.
Mrs. Shirin Fozdar with some of the student at the Secondary Commercial Section the morning she arrive after a year of absent for recuperating of a broken leg from a fall in this school compound.
