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The Olivers in Thailand - April 2008

April 29th, 2008

Paul & Rattanaporn in Chiang Mai

In March, we brought Paul & Rattanaporn down to visit Chiang Mai. They were able to stay at the Ban San Faan children’s home. We encouraged them not to look at the beautiful building but at the quality of love and care. Ban San Faan means ‘House of Fulfilled Dreams’, so called because when the children came to the home, their dream was to have a family – and now they are a family! We took Paul & Rattanaporn to visit a large fish farm as we are exploring the possibility of establishing a fish pond at Hoay Maw.

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Fresh Vision at Hoay Maw

In our recent visit to Hoay Maw we were encouraged to find that Paul has fulfilled his intention to tell the children with “families” that they cannot return next school year unless they pay for school and care costs. When we first started helping at Hoay Maw there were 184 children. There are now 55 children at the home and a further 7 at Joseph’s house.
It was satisfying to see the potential of improving the quality of life for these ‘true orphans’, although also very sobering that most of the children who have left will now receive little or no education due to the pitiful or nonexistent provision of education in remote villages. The family backgrounds of these children also embrace a range of challenges including severe poverty, abusive step-parents, parents with HIV or AIDS, in prison, or with addictions to drugs or alchohol - however - as much as we would love to see care and education provided for all of these children, Hoay Maw do not have anywhere near the adequate resources for this level of provision at the present time.

We have come to a point where we would like to be able to explore a way of establishing a level of regular support for the home in order to provide a stable basic income. We would value your prayers that we would have wisdom regarding the best way to achieve this.

Orphan

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Please Pray

● Give thanks and pray for continued development at Hoay Maw.
● For wisdom to know the best way to achieve a regular, basic stable income for Hoay Maw and for God’s provision.
● That we will be able to orchestrate the move to a new house coinciding with our visit to UK.

Love and Blessings
Adrian, Jenny, Tom, David & Jessica