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DEWA Phuket is supporting our efforts to bring about positive changes to the environment at Nai Yang Beach and Sirinath
National Park
Sustainable Smiles is incorporated with the State of Montana and a 501c non-profit organization.
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August, 2011 - Austria
In partnership with Vossen and Leiner, we are launching our Start!Now program in Austria for the 2011-2012 school year. We will be inviting groups of students from different schools in Austria to participate in a Sustainability Video Contest. Students will have to create their own video on "What is Sustainability". With our guidance students will compete for an all-expense paid environmental trip to Montana, US, where they will get to learn about the land, people, and concept of sustainability in another part of the world. Through our partnership with Vossen we hope to involve others in promoting environmental education for youth, ‘our leaders of tomorrow’.
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July & August, 2011
Kratie, Cambodia
Sustainable Smiles will be working with Wetland Alliance's local partner Cambodia Rural Development Team (CRDT) on product development for Eco-tourism and homestay programs in Kratie province. We will be working on a remote Island on the Mekong River to help 3 communities improve their eco-tourism products and services while also suggesting opportunities for greater engagement of schools and students in the community through awareness creation and education programs. The Wetland Alliance will be providing funding for us to initiate this program and we are looking forward to our collaboration together with CRDT.
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Thalang, Phuket, Thailand
STUDENT ACTION PROGRAM (S.A.P.)
S.A.P. is designed to empower students to improve the environment or solve an environmental issue in their local community. Students must design and implement their own community-based environmental project with participating stakeholders. Through this program students conduct questionnaires and surveys, collect secondary data, interview locals, and develop a project plan based on time, budget, and needs assessment.
Our first S.A.P. program was completed in February, 2011 funded by Seedlings of Change (www.seedlingsofchange.org) and Indigo Pearl Resort (www.indigo-pearl.com) we are now looking for new sponsors to fund another S.A.P. program for the upcoming year.
Please visit our blog and Facebook page to see pictures and more up-to-date information.
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June 2010 -- Present
Nai Yang Beach, Phuket
Environmental workshops for hotel staff and community members to learn about the effects of tourism, importance of biodiversity, environmental threats Phuket and Thailand is facing, and ways they can work together to protect their local environment. This program also provides us an opportunity to learn about the local environmental concerns and develop new projects that address the environmental, economic, and social needs of communities in Phuket .
  
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A place for children who need a safe and caring place to call home in Phang-Nga, Thailand.
Our President has been working closely with Home & Life for the past 3 years. Home & Life supports between 20 to 24 children who are either orphans from the 2004 Tsunami, come from broken families, or have parents who are too poor to support them. We will be working to help support them in their efforts to become self-sustainable. The projects we are raising funds to support are: environmental education (instruction, materials, and fieldtrip costs), organic garden, compost, and fish pond.
To learn more about Home & Life visit their website: www.homelifethailand.net
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Presentations for students in participating Montana schools designed to show students cultural, economic, and environmental issues Thailand and other Asian countries are facing and compare these issues to our own in Montana. We would like to connect our Montana students to other places in the world by showing them similarities and differences in cultures and environmental problems people face around the world. We would also like to encourage Montana students to continue to learn about the world and understand people from different countries, cultures, and ways of life. Together we can share the same common goal to work together to SAVE THE PLANET.
In addition, our presentations are designed to:
1. show Montana students activities and sustainable practices other students are engaging in around the world to help save the Planet.
2. explain to students the importance of conserving biological communities.
3. encourage students to participate in environmental activities at an early age as they will help determine what happens to our Planet in the years to come.
4. show Montana students the things they can do to minimize their impact on the environment.
5. introduce students in high school to the non-profit world.
5. offer to Montana students an opportunity to communicate with students in Thailand by setting up penpals via email for interested students.
If your school is interested in this program please contact Kelly Franklin at kfranklin@sustainablesmiles.org
  
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