These two sisters Vanvisa and Wanya first came to our attention about 18 months ago when we heard from the school that the only food that the girls had was the leftover scraps from school meals.
The girls were being taken care of by a bedridden grandmother and a disabled grandfather as a visit to their home revealed that they were living in appalling conditions, a tiny one room shack and the family were sleeping on a raised wooden platform with no bedding. Over the next six month with the help of sponsors and donors we were able to obtain a hospital bed for the grandmother that enabled her to be wheeled outside of the room for the first time in many years, the family were put on our monthly food drop plan and the girls flourished at school.
However today it was more gloom and dooms us and for the Ploykajang family - grandpa was crying as his son came to collect them all and take them to his home province as the owner of the land gave them 7 days to leave! None of them wanted to leave, and grandpa said they'd only move if the son made sure the girls went to school and after they'd said "Goodbye" to Suky.
What can one do? You invest yourselves in these families and just as you give them real hope and support - along comes a landowner and disrupts their whole life again.
100 Years From Today
It will not matter how big your bank account was, the sort of house you lived in, or the kind of car you drove. But the world may be a little better because your help touched the life of one child.
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