The Children's Safe Home

After all the craziness of exploring Bangkok we were ready to escape up north. Through a friend’s contact back at home we were able to meet up with a great program which sponsors at-risk children. Each one has such a unique story as to how they actually arrived here, but every child seems very grateful to be here. After viewing the great need, we are so thankful for being here too!



The kids gave a very warm welcome, tackling us strangers with huge hugs as we arrived. We knew from that moment that this would be the highlight of our entire trip. The kids range in age from 1 to 15 years and each one has such a distinct and colorful personality, coming from such unfortunate backgrounds. We thought communication would be a problem, but it really is not... we are already much better players of charades!


The children normally go to a eegufer school for B children from 8:30-3:30 everyday, and learn everything from math and science and Bible classes to Thai and some English. But this week is a holiday for them, so we spent more time with them and took them on field trips.


We went right to work on some basic repairs around the home and taught them how to do it as we went. They are all so eager to learn. There are only two boys in the orphanage but they love Anders and are so happy to have another guy around! All the leaders and most of the kids are girls. But the two boys follow him around everywhere and love to do things just like him:) Since the lumber is so expensive, locals use bamboo. The kind owner of the gas station let us chop down a bamboo tree in his parking lot.