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Binding Power: Volunteers Bring Us Small Steps Closer to Sustainability

9 August 2011

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Binding Power: Volunteers Bring Us Small Steps Closer to Sustainability

In the last update I mentioned the desire to create some income generating project to help support the families and over the past few weeks, a small group of determined volunteers has been forming to make sure this project comes to fruition.

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In Search of Sanuk July Project Update

16 July 2011

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In Search of Sanuk July Project Update

Lots happening as always, but I wanted to take a minute and give a short update on the projects I’m working on and where I hope they’ll go next. Sponsoring Kids from Poor Communities We just had seven girls from the Yommorat community finish a dramatherapy course we sponsored with your help. Each of the [...]

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An Unlikely Introduction to Asylum Seeking

6 June 2011

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An Unlikely Introduction to Asylum Seeking

Last week I started explaining the background on the families in need that we’ve been helping. I’m writing today’s update while sitting on a family’s floor in jeans, flip-flops, and a Beer Lao t-shirt to tell you more about what we’re doing. I’m thinking of how exactly to explain how I got here. The easiest [...]

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Healthier Families Still in Need

26 May 2011

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Healthier Families Still in Need

I got a donation this week after soliciting help for my families on twitter. The $60 is about the cost of rent for the family I happened to be visiting while sending updates. This particular family is one of three with women who have been effectively widowed to Bangkok’s immigration jail (where I’m not really [...]

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Momentum to Provide More Scholarships for Kids in the Slum

11 May 2011

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Momentum to Provide More Scholarships for Kids in the Slum

I hope enjoyed the pictures and video from our graduation in the last post. This week we feel like proud parents as our scholarship kids get ready to begin their classes this weekend. The girls are excited and we’re anxious to get them going. In general, the parents and the communities have been supportive of [...]

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Sanuk My Saturday Graduates

14 April 2011

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Sanuk My Saturday Graduates

Last month we ended our almost two year adventure taking volunteers into two poor communities in Bangkok. The project started when we had the idea to help build a community garden, but found out the residents were more interested in having their children study English. Still determined to help, we recharted our course and began [...]

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Touching Documentary: Children of the Forest

13 January 2011

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Touching Documentary: Children of the Forest

“A baby in these parts can fetch as much as twenty thousand baht ($500)” I want to start the year by again calling your attention to the situation on the border of Thailand. Friends of mine over at Rubber Knife Productions recently took some time out to do a pro bono documentary there. They chose to tell [...]

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