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Sunday, 7 December 2008
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November 2008 News

On the 1st November Dao and Nok visited Bah Sah and Bah Heeya and gave
them each 2000 baht to help meet the monthly expenses of schooling for
the children in their care.

Moo, Nok's husband visited Tah Bai (whose hut he had helped build) and
gave him 500 baht to help meet his food expenses for the month. Moo
also gave him two packets of UHT milk at 90 baht.

Dao and Nok have also identified four other children in serious need
of assistance. They are two brothers, Tum and Ton, 10 and 7 years old,
who have been living with their grandfather since both their parents
died very young 4 or 5 years ago.

The other two are Kong, a 6 year old boy and his cousin of a similar age who live with Kong's sick-mother Tia and step-father. All four of these children are being raised on extremely limited resources.

Dao and Nok agreed that the best way to help them meet their daily
school costs would be for them to visit Nok each day on the way to
school, they all live nearby, and she would give them each 20 baht for
school lunches, milk, etc.

December 2008 Newsletter

Dao and Nok have revisited and given the ongoing amounts of funds to everyone that has been receiving assistance through O.


One other person has been included to the list and that is Tia’s mother Yai Mee. She has no income and she lives with Tia, who is also receiving assistance, from O, for her two children. She will receive 500 Baht a month.

Mid Oct 2008

O recently visited Bah Hiya at her home in Kan, where she lives with her grandson Mai. Bah Hiya is 63 years old and works as a cook at a nearby school, often working 7 days a week. She has a minimal monthly income with which she has to pay rent and provide for herself and Mai. Her husband who was a cycle-rickshaw driver died recently. Her grandson Mai is 15 years old and attends a local school. O has provided Bah Hiya with assistance to help meet the costs of Mai’s schooling for the coming school term.

October, 2008

Latest Actions October, 2008

At the start of the month members from O visited Bah Sah at her rented home. Bah Sah is 72 years old and lives with her husband, who is 66 and works as a barber. They live with and their grandson Gon who is just 7 years old and is in Class 2 at the local government primary school. He had been living with his parents until they separated. His father is in jail. Now he lives with his grandparents who support him and send him to school on their meager income. O provided Bah Sah with some immediate relief money to assist her with the costs of Gon’s school expenses for the coming month and will continue to monitor their situation.

8^th September 2008

Ongoing Actions

This man is 77 years old and has been living in a small shack on his own for the past few years. It has no running water or electricity. Up until recently he had earned a living by collecting recyclable rubbish from the street. Now he has just returned from hospital after having a cyst operation on his neck and he has no energy to walk the streets collecting rubbish.

The woman in the shack next door cooks for him. Thanks to recent generous donations O has just started to provide a small supplementary income, food, etc. We are now preparing to employ some local people to fix up his home, currently a lean-to shack with no real protection from rain. This area has frequent violent storms most evenings during this monsoon season.

Over two days On Friday and Saturday, 12 and 13 September, a small team of local builders were hired to rebuild Loong Bai's hut. These first two pictures show Loong Bai sitting in the front of his original hut. It offered very little protection against the evening storms that regularly battered it.


Loong Bai lives alone with very few things, a tiny income and very little support.
His hut had been totally inadequate to live in due to a leaking roof and insubstantial walls. The heavy rain caused everything to get damp.

The builders put up a bigger, stronger hut, made from wooden beams and locally bought second hand materials.Loong Bai in his new dry hut.
O intends to continue to monitor his situation and provide support until he recovers enough to be able to work.

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This family of a mother and children collect rubbish for recycling. Every day they make their rounds of the street rubbish bins, collecting what they can sell. In this way they earn about two hundred baht a week. The youngest is still at home, she’s only two. This picture is in front of a house where they have just collected some cardboard and plastic bottles.

They live here, surrounded by rubbish in a one room leaky shack with no electricity or running water."The whole family share the one room and sleep under one mosquito net on a single mattress. When it rains water comes in through the roof and sides of their hut. O has provided the mother of this family with financial assistance in sending the youngest child to a kindergarten, clothing and some food supplies.













The Last Post

Record of incomes and expenditures.

June 2008 to April 2009

Received: 50,000 baht
Spent:
School children: 30,000 baht
Aged people: 17,500 baht
Staff member: 5,000 baht


April 30 2009 to April 30 2010

Received: 132,100 baht
Spent:
School Children and Aged: 80,900 baht
Staff member: 6,000 baht
Balance: 45,200 baht

April 30 2010 to April 30 2011

Received: 45,647 baht
Spent: 67,000 baht
Balance: 25,157 baht