These gestures have been a real boost to the children for their efforts and real proof that there are people who care.

Now we need to make a far more urgent appeal.

If you have heard of our work, visited our website or maybe even visited our Children’s Home project and are at all impressed with what we are doing, we desperately need funds coming in to ensure that we can carry on into the future and fulfil the promise of “A Better Chance”, to the children here at Stratton House now and many more in the future.

With big efforts here to bring in better efficiency in all areas of our operations, our basic running costs have now been reduced to 30,000 baht a month.

Clearly, to improve, develop and increase our services to help more children we will need more, but our main priority now is to ensure that the first target of basic monthly running costs is covered.

Ways you can help

If you have paypal please consider using our Donate button right now.

Take a look in our online shop; here you will find gift items produced here at Stratton House; sponsor a child options; and in our Wishlist section options for sponsoring specific needs, such as a weeks food or a weeks drinking water.

If you live in Chiang Mai keep a look out for our collection boxes, now in several locations around the city.

You can find Handmade cards produced by the children in Nok ‘Em Ded store in Prapaklao Rd, close to Wat Chedi Luang.

Recycle Initiative

Also now we would like to start a recycle iniative where your rubbish can help us. If you would like to recycle more but struggle to find a way to get rid of your unwanted plastic/glass/card or paper please get in touch.

We already recycle most of our waste and if you give us details of where you are then we will collect; all monies from the recycle centers will go directly into The Stratton ABC Foundation general Household budget. (please note that this option is open only to those living within Chiang Mai City area or between the City and Sarapee areas…..if you are not sure get in touch anyway and we will let you know if we can offer the service).

If you have any spare time and have any ideas for fund raising please get in touch.

Please help The Stratton ABC Foundation continue to build on its good start and go on to help many more disadvantaged Thai children have, not only A Better Chance, but quality of life as well.

Once they got started and the track started to take shape , the children didn’t want to stop.

All the younger children worked hard gathering up loose stones and leveling the track.

Tai was entrusted with the job of shaping points on short bamboo stakes to hold the track marking poles in place.

All the children wanted to have a go at banging the stakes in and managed very well in places where the ground was softest; using wooden sticks as hammers when I refused to allow them to weild the heavy metal lump hammer that myself and Tai used later to bang the stakes in until they were firm.

Even working lat in the afternoon the heat was quite intense and I tried calling a halt to the work after a little over an hour.

 But the children would have none of it, not wanting to stop until the whole track had at least been laid out.

Well done kids, to say I am proud of you is an understatement!
For more photos of this project please visit our photobucket album here.

This meant I had much more time than I expected to work on filling the ‘shelves’ in our online shop which I hope to have truely online by the end of the weekend.

I have a meeting with webmaster Ally on Friday.

As with all this computer technology it will take me time to acclimatise to using the software to its best potential so you will no doubt see continual changes, hopefully for the better as time progresses.