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Creating Girl Power With Sanuk Scholarships

8 March 2011

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Creating Girl Power With Sanuk Scholarships

Girl Power!  Or at least that’s what we’re hoping to give to some of our underprivileged girls we’ve met in Bangkok. We had the idea to give scholarships to some of the young girls we teach on Saturdays; happily, this idea just happened to coincide with V-Day.  We were more than happy to have all you fine people [...]

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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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Stealing Back Christmas 2010

29 December 2010

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Stealing Back Christmas 2010

Last weekend we gave the families you’ve been helping to support food, clothing, and rent support. Twas fairly simple to hand over these material things, we just loaded the 47 members of the families with all their Christmas gifts in taxis. The cars were brimming with people, had overflowing trunks and we still passed things [...]

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Helping the Hidden for the Holidays

23 November 2010

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Helping the Hidden for the Holidays

The holiday season is here and I’m preparing to do something special for the families we’ve been helping this year. This has been one of the most difficult things I’ve worked on all year. Fear reigns in refugee communities in Bangkok, so getting aid to these hidden families dispersed all over the city takes a [...]

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What is the Worth of Two Hours?

12 November 2010

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What is the Worth of Two Hours?

Today I’m proud to share a guest post from a new friend Pam, who chronicles her travels on her website, Spunky Girl Monologues. Pam has gone out of her way to get involved in the short time she had to spend in Bangkok (read about her first encounter with urban refugees here). Here’s what she [...]

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Donating Clothes and Used Goods in Bangkok

26 October 2010

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Donating Clothes and Used Goods in Bangkok

Hey everywhere I’ve enjoyed a few days off this month from our teaching project, but things are getting cranked up again soon. It’s been a tough time lately, especially for the refugee families we’ve been helping because of increased pressure to have them arrested and detained. Here’s a quick note about an opportunity in Bangkok [...]

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Pimp My Wheelchair

27 August 2010

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Pimp My Wheelchair

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 daily have been on my mind lately. So today’s update is just to share this [...]

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