Could You Help Someone Whose Face You Couldn’t See?

The biggest obstacle to fundraising for refugees is the responsibility to do your best to protect their identities.

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Extra Help and the April Fun Raising Report

Thank you and don’t forget we’re still on the lookout for people or groups who want to sponsor families.

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Cultivating Dangerous Ideas

While everyone else is sitting on their hands, take the steps to make your ideas to improve your community reality.

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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

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

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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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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