Video Report from Children’s Day 2012 in Bangkok, Thailand

Saturday afternoon was a great Children's Day celebration with the Yommarat community. Watch the video report!

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I’m not a Missionary, not a NGO or a Hero

I don't fit so easily into people's boxes and grow tired of explaining why.

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Saturday School Ends With A Rowdy Splash

Final Saturday School session for 2011 ends with a pool party for the kids.

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Sanuk Scholarship Recipients Finish Their Classes

Our kids from the slum have finished their classes.

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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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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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Microfinance Helping Women in Bangkok Step Ahead of Poverty

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 [...]

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