Dear Baan Phak Phing friends, 2021 will be upon us in a matter of hours. Due to your generosity and support in various ways we have been able to provide a safe home for 24 girls who have suffered under abuse. THANK YOU! We look forward to working with you again in the new year....
Category: News
Two laptops needed?
This month two of our young adult women will go study at the university. One of them will study logistics and the other will study nursing. Neither of them knew how they were going to be able to do this without their own laptop, they were quite worried about this. It was amazing when, a...
Veggie Tales!
In order to stay healthy, the girls eat fruit and vegetables every day. Usually, we go to the market to buy our groceries, but with a garden like ours we thought it would be a great opportunity to actually grow some fruit and vegetables ourselves! Gardening is not only educational and saves money, but also...
Computer maintenance!
In order to give the girls a good education and prepare them for the rest of their lives, we make use of computers. Of course, computers tend to get slower over time which usually means they need to be updated. A simple update can speed up a computer and generally makes it last for years...
Baby news!
Baan Phak Phing was founded in 1990, so you can imagine that many girls have become part of our family since then. We don’t know exactly how many girls lived in Baan Phak Phing over the years, but we do know there are many. For us, as ‘mums’, it’s so encouraging to see that we...
Reunion!
At the beginning of this year, a mother who worked in Baan Phak Ping for over 13 years left to take care of her sick father and other family members. This was tough for both the staff and the girls. Recently, the staff and the girls from the house where the mother had worked went...
Maternity visit!
Two staff members and the oldest girl currently living with us, had to return to her village in the mountains. This village is about an hour and a half away and the road there leads right by where a woman, who used to live with us and later became a colleague and then moved away...
Hole in the roof!
When trees get too tall and they start becoming a danger to the girls’ home and the tree house (counseling room) something has to be done to ensure everyone’s safety. So, before the rainy season started and things could go from bad to worse we had a couple of local workers cut the trees. There...
How much longer?
The girls are tired of being home all the time, they are longing to go back to school. Since halfway through March they’ve been home because of the summer break and that kept on going due to COVID-19. The staff has done their best to make sure that the girls kept on learning and the...
Backyard Camping!
The girls have had summer vacation since halfway through march. But because of COVID-19, making trips and going out is not possible. So what do we do now? Well, we have wonderful staff who decided to organize a camp. Each house, with their own staff and kids, went camping on our own property with tents,...
