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    Hi Selwyn, In case you don't see this I will email you direct also, early this week. I think the best i can reccomend is that you contact the RICD(Royal Institute For Child Development) (http://www.ricd.go.th/) close to Mae Rim. This is an excellent facility with expert Doctors , social workers and all the access and knowledge of the sort of help you ar […]
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    Hi John My name is Selwyn Wilson a soon to 66 year old UK pensioner. I have been the only carer of 10 year old Arissa Sompamit from Omkoi since she was struck down with JEV in September 2009. She is brain damaged and has all that accompanies this Disease.I met 2 Thai ladies at the Mc Kean rehab centre where I have taken her for Occupational Therapy until Mar […]
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Jun 172011
 

The Stratton ABC Foundation is still relatively new, (registered June 2010).

So far we are happy with the progress of our Aims and Objectives but to realise them in full can only be done with your help.

Sitting, contemplating the most consistent of tasks ; sourcing funds to continue and develop our work to help many more children; it struck me that if each of my Facebook friends could spare just 10 pounds,($16.15),(15.29 AUD),(494 Thai Baht) a month then our basic running costs would be covered with some left over for further developing and improving our services.

Alternatively, with our website now averaging 30 hits a day, if each person viewing the site were to donate just 70 pence,($1.07),(1.07AUD), (33.5 Thai Baht), every time they visited then this would have the same effect.

Future plans include the building of a purpose built facility; training all staff in counseling and child psychology to ensure best care for children separated from their families; outreach work to offer support to rural communities “onsite”; weekend educational/craft activities open to children within our local catchment area. We have the determination and commitment to work to make all of this reality; what we need is your support.

Go on….you know you want to…hit that donate button now!

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A Belated Thanks To Roshni

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May 012011
 

The week prior to the Song Kran Holiday was a lovely time with enthusiastic and delightful Volunteer Roshni. With preparations for the holiday I didn’t get round to doing a proper post on her visit.

During her time here Roshni was very popular with all the children and joined in various activities.

She was also a great support for myself helping out a lot with general organisation of Foundation activities.

Roshni…..we hope you are well and happy and that you enjoyed your time here as much as we enjoyed you being here.

Hope to hear from you soon and making connections with your school and students.

Here are some videos and photos from Roshni’s time at Stratton House.

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Our First Volunteers

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May 312010
 
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This is a much overdue report on our first volunteers here at Stratton House.

After a friend passed on details of our work here,

Two lovely ladies from Switzerland got in touch and expressed a wish to come and help out for a few days during their holiday in Thailand.

It was right at the start of the school holidays so we were glad of the offer of assistance.

We picked up Mikki and Siva,(hope I got the names right girls), from Chiang Mai, on Sunday 28th March on our way to Huay Tung Tao.

After another great afternoons water play there, the girls came back to Stratton House with us and stayed for 5 days.

Their visit was much appreciated by all and in the short time they were with us they did so much.

Girls you are welcome back anytime.

From Monday to Friday the girls kept the kids occupied with many activities, including mask making, weaving bracelets, making board  games and not forgetting playing Uno.

Indeed Uno became quite an obsession and continued to be so long after the girls left, leaving the Uno cards behind for the kids.

I hope Mikki and Siva were as happy with their visit as we were. I know that I was personally very tired at the time and only hope that my stresses didn’t effect their visit.

All the children loved having them here and missed them when they were gone.

We all hope your onward travels went well and hope you’ll be back in touch some time.

For many more photos from the girls 5 day visit please visit our photobucket album here.

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