Take Care Kids

Hello friends,

before I start telling you about these first few weeks in Thailand, I would like to start this travel journal with a short story. A few days before I left I visited the province of Brescia because a nine year old supporter of ours wanted to give me his offering. As soon as he learned about what we do for the kids in Thailand from his mother, Marco became very active. He sold some of his toys and donated the amount of 130 Euro. This is a very significant sum of money for us, we can do many things with this sum. Dear Marco, your money has already been changed to the local currency here and added up to 6400 Baht. We shall use them now to take the orphans )a group of 24 kids= to get some ice cream, then we will also buy 80kg of rice and that will help us feed almost 180 children for a few weeks. Thank you Marco....and thanks to all the friends we have in the province of Brescia.

Sometimes people ask us what they can do to help our cause.....well, I think Marco has given us a great example, and has given us great strength. As every other year, my return here was delightful. It was amazing to see some of “our” little kids, while others have found mothers and fathers who will take care of them in Germany, in Denmark, and in Switzerland, and this makes us very happy. However, those who stayed recognized me immediately as soon as I arrived and with their eyes popping out of their heads they started yelling “Khun Giooooooooo” as they ran towards me.

This is a kind of joy I want to share with you all, the kind of joy that pushes all our volunteers to work hard and sacrifice themselves at our stands, this scream is all for you. The older ones (3years up) are quite well, while the smaller ones are now going through the usual rainy season illnesses such as cold, fever (some of them have been taken to the hospital to make sure their conditions are stable), diarrhea etc…. Therefore we haven’t been able to visit them for quite a few days in order to avoid spreading the diseases. Since we are still in the rainy season we spend most of our time in the classrooms in order to step outside as soon as the sun cuts through the thick clouds. On the other hand, the conditions of those who live in the slums are more complicated, we have a very hard time reaching them. The number of people living in the slums keeps rising by the day. New slum areas have developed and the already existing ones can barely fit all the poor people who arrive. This is a very hard world to live in, and those who suffer most are the kids. Sadly, 4 (out of 80) children have lost their lives due to hemorrhagic fevers made worse by the new H1N1 virus. The family living under the tree has also suffered a severe loss, the mother (who we had taken to the hospital urgently to save her eyesight) died due to food poisoning, or at least, that’s what the doctor’s report says. Those who live in the slums have to learn to make the best of what they have, and sometimes, these ar

e the sad results. We will go to the slums next week to bring the usual food supplies and the clothes you have donated. As I said earlier, and if the health conditions of the kids hold out, we will take our

little orphans out for ice cream, but you’ll be able to read all about it in the next chapter of our journal…..stay with us!

Tck