In participation in the Adventist church’s Global Youth Day, Adventist Youth of Nakhon Ratchasima Province in Thailand organized a tree-planting activity in Nakhon Ratchasima Zoo or Korat Zoo.
The group planted 100 pink trumpet tree seedlings inside the zoo, given to them by the Forest Nursery Center of Nakhon Ratchasima Royal Forest Department. The department highly recommends these trees. According to them, these trees are perfect for parks and zoo landscaping. The activity was participated by over 60 people, including a handful of kids.
This is not their first time organizing a community service in that zoo. In 2017, the group already volunteered to clean the zoo to celebrate World Environment Day. This year the #CareTeamKorat is back to do more community service for the zoo and the animals living there.
This group of young professionals are individuals studying and working in Thailand and purposed to organize a group that aims to help the community in any possible way that they can.
#CareTeamKorat facilitated various services for the community like a medical mission, free lab tests, massages, and offered grocery items and food packs as well.
“The Seventh Day Adventists are animal and nature lovers. Because we believe that nature and creation speak about the love of God. So, giving care to the animals by giving them a pleasant environment is what we should be doing more often. This kind of community service also demonstrates how the children of God, kids and adults alike, should unite,” said John Vincent Carriedo, one Adventist Youth leader.
A day before the tree-planting activity, the group donated 20 rims of bond papers, a hundred boxes of facemasks, and hundreds of rolls of tissue or toilet papers at a School for the Blind. They also donated several boxes of milk, hundreds of boxes of facemasks, and hundreds of rolls of toilet paper to an orphanage.
After the success of their tree-planting activity, the group received a call from the Nakhon Ratchasima Royal Forest Department asking them if they could also extend their community service in the Forest Nursery Center. This opened more opportunities for the group to serve the community and extend compassion to the city.
The group is very much involved in outreach activities. Currently, they are planning to volunteer as teachers in a nearby School for the Blind in their city. They plan to extend free classes to teach children every Sunday. They are praying that this program will materialize and open more ministry opportunities.
Arjelo Onde, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand