Karen refugee childcare campaign was a success, thanks in part to the readers of Thailandblog
The joint action of Lionsclub IJsselmonde and the NVTHC to build a school for Karen child refugees in Ban-Ti behind Kanchanaburi has been a success.
Karen child refugee school in Ban Ti is nearing completion
The construction of the school for Karen child refugees from Burma, a stone's throw from the border west of Kanchanaburi, has been delayed in recent months by the heavy wet monsoon. Now that this is a bit over, work has quickly resumed. The official opening will almost certainly take place in January next year. With thanks to Lionsclub IJsselmonde in Rotterdam and the Dutch Association Thailand Hua Hin and Cha am. However, there is still a shortfall of 600 euros.
Bamboo School: lifesaver for Burmese children
What should become of you if you were taken out of a toilet bowl as a newborn baby? What your mother put you in because you were a child of another father? Where do you go when your father, a Karen from Burma, has been shot and your mother has left you somewhere? Is there still hope if you weigh only 900 grams at birth, without medical care? For very young children who no longer have a father or mother?
Tens of thousands of Thai men and women are on the street due to the corona crisis. Hotels are close, as are many restaurants and shops. With the average low wages, there is hardly any savings and it is impossible to live on the meager benefits.
We had almost forgotten about them, the more than 300 inhabitants of the 'home for the destitute' in Prachuap Khiri Kan. In August 2014, the Lions Club Hua Hin provided all disabled residents of this homeless shelter with custom-made wheelchairs. This in collaboration with Vincent Kerremans, regional coordinator of the RICD Wheelchair Project in Chiang Mai.
During a regular meeting of Lions Club IJsselmonde, club member Hans Goudriaan was honored for his many years of intensive efforts in Thailand for the Karen, a forgotten and oppressed mountain people in the border area of Thailand, Myanmar and Laos.