Provide Education and Hope for Children at Risk

We are constantly adapting to the restrictions imposed by the pandemic. The schools have closed on and off all year. With the new spikes in Thailand, the July closing of schools extended through August.

Online class for Grades k-6 has not worked well, so the teachers prepare weekly packets of assignments and deliver to Warm Heart, and exchange with the completed ones. 

Grades 7-12 and university students are all working online. We also have had some success working with remote volunteers, running English conversation sessions with teenagers in India, Thailand, and the US. In addition, our dedicated afterschool tutors, Kru Nuoy and Kru Eid come six days a week to work on Thai language and Math skills.

We are grateful to Building Futures Thailand for our initial Barb's Place Comunity Education Center computers and the recent funding that was available to install an additional 13 computers for our Youth Competency Skills program.  We now have enough computers to cover the various learning shifts the children have scheduled on Zoom.  

Our volunteers include teenage friends in the US and Canada, Alkalka.org, in India, and students from the Verso School in Thailand. We've divided the students into groups by age and gender.  The children all love to sing and the word games get them reading.  They are all very shy about speaking but have been getting better as they work in small groups.

Your gifts go to support our staff, the Children's Home Manager, Mali, and the house mothers, who keep the schedules, make sure over 100 nutritious meals are served daily, along with milk and snacks for always hungry growing children.  They get sleepy teenagers out of bed, fed, and onto schoolwork.  Mali has assigned all our available staff and college students, home due to the pandemic, to work one on one with the elementary school children.  

The children help with the cooking, cleaning, and vegetable gardens.  On the weekends they split into groups to cook healthy snacks for the week (banana bread is a favorite), make practical craft projects like paper bags (not more plastic bags) to deliver supplies to the elderly,  During reading time, the older children read to the younger ones.  And there is always time for a daily game of football/soccer and volleyball.

Thank you for keeping the children learning and thriving!