Today we visited the room of 10year old 'guitar' and her 6 year old sister 'Piano'. The children's mother died in childbirth and the girls are cared for by their grandmother who works as a cleaner and also collects rubbish to recycle and the children's father a motorbike taxi driver.
The father works at night so after he finishes work he takes the children to school, returns home to sleep and the pick the up again before gonna comes home to care for the girls during the evening and at night.
Grandma leaves home early in the morning to collect rubbish and then goes onto her cleaning job, the girls help her sort and bag up the rubbish and this earns the family an extra 1000Baht (£20) a month.
The family's room is in a dark and damp passageway where there are many rooms and with a lot of very ferocious dogs which fortunately when we visited were behind barred gates. The family's room has one mattress where all the family sleep. Both girls enjoy school and are obviously well cared for with the meagre resources that grandma and their father earn they are very happy and bubbly kids.
We have offered to double the amount of food we fund each month which will make things a little easier for grandma to feed the growing girls and we have asked 'Noi' the social worker with 'Kates Project' to buy both girls some new clothes and shoes.
We are still looking for individual sponsors for both girls as an offer to sponsor the girls a month ago was not followed through by the potential sponsor so at the moment we are paying for the girls schooling, details of the children can be found on our website at; http://pattayastreetkids.homestead.com/childrenneedingsponsors.html
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