Thursday, 26 September 2013

'Tai' and Grandma Nid







A recent addition to our Scholarship scheme is 10 year old ‘Tae’, Tae lives with his grandmother who takes sole care of him. She rents the land and pays 625Baht rent plus electricity and water each month totaling nearly 1000 baht per month. She collects rubbish to recycle and tries to sell it but she doesn’t get much money for her efforts, she also grows vegetables around the house for them to eat.
The main problem is that there is no mother and father around every day. Sometimes the father comes by with some money to help provide for his boy, but it is rare.
The grandmother does her best, but she is sick and doesn’t know how long she will be here. She worries a lot about what is going to happen to ‘Tae’ when she is no longer here.

Tae is a good boy and he goes to school every day, but his future is unclear, if it is only the grandmother who takes care of him.
They have moved around a lot before, but now they rent the land which is better as it gives them a more stable home.

‘Tae' was recently sponsored by a Pattaya based ex-pat who asked if there was anything that he could help the family with and Grandma said that the boy needed a new school bag and food. We arranged through ‘Kate’s Project trust’ who are working with the family for the money to be used as the sponsor requested and a new school bag and a supply of food was purchased for Grandma Nid and ‘Tae’


Registered Charity No. 1104335
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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