Giving Generously

Praying for Nepal. Donated 500,000 THB / $15,000 for relief efforts. Emergency Relief for the Victims of the Nepal Quake On April 25, 2015, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Nepal, killing thousands and demolishing more than half a million homes, most of them in rural areas cut off from emergency medical care. Another major quake hit on May 12. The death toll from the two quakes has risen to nearly 8600 (May 18), while the injured number in the tens of thousands. On April 30, th

I was in Chiang Mai the first week of April when word reached my hosts (Kent, Po, and Linnea who run the "Sumalee's Garden/Sop Moei Weaving Arts Center" project) that on April 1, a fire had broken out in the small mountain village of Baan Mae Hong Klang in the Om Koi district of Chiang Mai. 23 houses were destroyed, the number of people left homeless was around 115. Everyone in the region was pitching in whatever they could, and clothes, food and items of daily use were quick

Great news from the "Garden of Eden" run by the Camillian Social Center Rayong. The 55 (young) adults with HIV living at Eden now have clean drinking water, courtesy of Sumalee smile emoticon They have waited ten years for this day - since the Garden was founded - and I'm happy to report that the residents drank their first glasses of clean, filtered water from the new system today! Thank you Juergen/Jimmy at the Camillian PCU for bringing my attention to this project and org