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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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 [...]

Sometimes it’s a struggle to get a few people together for a few hours during Saturday’s English Teaching Program. So I’m still a bit stunned that one volunteer donated her last weekend in Bangkok to helping me. You may remember Pam from the recent guest post, well she showed back up in Bangkok last weekend [...]