Nong Ann and her family
In the village of Phato there are a several immigrants from Myanmar
(Burma) working on the farms for a very low salary. Some of these
men have children and a wife to take care of. For these families
it is financially difficult to feed their children with nutritious
food. The children do not attend school so they miss out on the
daily school meals and milk.
The Thai Child Development Foundation
is supporting Nong Ann and her family.
Nong Ann is a Burmese girl of 7 years old. The foundation
has been supporting her family (father, mother and two baby brothers)
from the very beginning. They live high up in the mountains in an
isolated place. Every month Nong Ann spends about one week in the
children's home and she has learned how to play games, draw pictures,
count on her hand, brush her teeth, play with other children and
speak Thai, all for the first time.
Malika and her children
Malika is a 21 year old single mother. She is Thai and living
high in the mountains of Phato, on a very isolated spot. Together
with her mother and father, who are working as laborers in the fruit
orchards.
Malika is a child herself in her mental development. But she has
given birth to 2 children, one boy of 3 years old and a baby girl,
King.
King was very weak. The doctors said that Malika's milk did not
have enough vitamins, so she fed her with rice and water. Malika
did not want to come to the Children's home (where she would have
been close to the hospital and where she could have taken care of
her children better), because she did not know Rose very well yet.
The foundation supported her with powder milk, bottles and other
nutritious food for the baby and for the boy. This however was not
enough and King kept getting weaker. The local doctor has sent her
home with different medicines several times until finally she was
so weakened that she had to be taken in at the intensive care unit
in a better hospital in a big city.
Malika spend 2 weeks there watching over King. On 15 February King
died of an pneumonia and a weak heart, at the age of 5 months.
Now Malika spends one week a months in the children's home where
she can learn, play and relax a little bit. Until now her father
does not allow her to take her son because he will miss him to much.
Two families in Ban Ben
Ban Ben is a fishermans village at the Andaman coast. The
coast hit by Tsunami in December 2004. Many people in Ban Ben
lost family members, friends, their houses, boats, their way of
income. Next to that there is a second group of Tsunami victims:
those who lost their mean of income because of the environmental
and social changes in their society because of the Tsunami.
In Ban Ben their are several families who are affected by
this. They use to be fisherman, still are, but because of economical
effects of the Tsunami on they do not generate income to provide
their family with enough food.
One family has two little girls. A 3 year old and 2 year old. One
of them has asthma.
The other family has a 2 year old girl who is authistic.
The Thai Child Development Foundation
is providing them with nutritious products for the children.
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