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When Ei Phyo Wai's baby was only one and a half months old, she started to feel like she should go out and look for a job to help make money. In order to do that she began giving her a substitute for breastmilk, in order to wean her. It wasn't even infant formula. But she couldn't read the box. She only looked at the pictures. She thought from the pictures that it was good for her baby.
Htet Htet's baby girl was born healthy and strong. The family has green vegetable growing all around their house to eat, and enough sell if they can find customers. This baby will have the nutrition she needs to develop her mind and body and grow up strong.
If you want to make the biggest impact on a child’s life long health and well being, you need to do it during the first 1000 […]
By the time a child is two years old the most important stages of physical and brain development have already occurred. If this development doesn’t happen in […]
When Zu Bai was in third grade, he was playing with his friend, and the friend threw a shoe at him. It hit him in the […]
Migrant families don’t have access to the regular banking services that most of us take for granted. They don’t have a secure way to save their […]
For 8 years Daw Aye Min had used an old-fashioned foot powered sewing machine that she bought for 2,000 Baht. “The old sewing machine takes a lot […]
It has been an amazing journey so far. Together we have learned so much about what it takes to protect vulnerable children, and we have journeyed together a long way in our understanding and approach. Through it all, you have been with us in consistent love and care for these children, and with us have broadened that love and care to include their families as a whole.
Carrien BlueCarrien is co-founder of The Charis Project, Family Education Curriculum Developer, and mom of 6. You can get her free mini-course on Making Your Family […]
Working with the local district government to strategically target and identify the most at risk families in each community, we distributed seeds to nearly 3000 families in need who were affected by the COVID19 crisis so that they will have food to eat in the coming months. For families still reeling from their financial losses, seeds equal hope.
When COVID-19 hit Thailand, and the government prevention measures closed down borders and businesses, and cut off whole communities, most migrant families were caught completely unprepared. […]
Our Director of Research and Evaluation, Wayland Blue, published a detailed report on our prevention efforts in the Mae Sot migrant community at the onset of […]