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.