If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Thanks for your responses to Hospital Woes about my girls that have been in the hospital. I’ve still been visiting with Usna and she’s coming along in her recovery. But some of the challenges those with limited mobility must overcame [...]

This week I’m happy to share a guest post from Marisa Deyoung, who volunteers for Step Ahead, an organization mentoring micro-entrepreneurs in Bangkok’s largest slum community, Klong Toey. Serving with Step Ahead in Thailand and previously in Northeast India has helped put a face and family to poverty for me. These experiences have also helped [...]

I’ve made more trips to the hospital this past month, than I have in three years of living in Thailand. As a stern reminder of what it’s like to live in poorer Bangkok communities, two of my students have been the victims of motorcycle accidents because of reckless driving. The first of the accidents happened [...]

I want to share some recent pictures from our English teaching project, but as a change of pace, here are photos where the kids aren’t the emphasis. So no smiling children this time, but I hope you see how rich in character the communities where we work are. Here are a few shots of the [...]

This upcoming June 20th is World Refugee Day and people are organizing celebrations all over the world. To make sure we’re able to extend the sponsoring of food supplies we began last month, I’m organizing a small event to raise money to support them through the summer.  Here are some facts about refugees and a [...]

I hope you all enjoyed last week’s video and photo update. Here’s more: There are forty-one children at Future Light Children’s Home. We spent the morning playing games and doing art activities. The kids never grew tired of running around or hanging out with their new friends from Bangkok. Had any of them truly been [...]

Here’s a video and some of the best photos from last weekend’s trip to visit Future Light Children’s Home in Mae Sot, Thailand.