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Bali, Indonesia - April 2009

Open photo gallery Bali 2009

This Orphanage is run by the Franciscan Sisters and like others subsists totally on the support of kind people: no help whatever is available in any form from the Government in Indonesia for institutes other than those run by the Muslim majority.

About 100 young girls and boys are cared for at one time, no religious criteria apply for entrance, those in need are not set adrift on the world at the age of 17 as practiced by other Christian Orphanages, rather they are welcome to stay until they have found a living.

Their ages range from 3 years to adults. Children from all rural areas over Indonesia are being send here, since other areas such as Java, Jakarta, Timor, Surabaya or Flores are even poorer. If you are in Bali, Food, clothes and school utilities are more than welcome. You will be very surprised how many happy children you will find and how excited they can get once they receive a stuffed animal, a t-shirt or some pens to draw.

Address:
Bali Franciscan Orphanage - Tuka

Indonesian:
Panti Asuhan Katolik
Jln Raya Tuka
Desa Tuka
Bngr Dalung
Bali
Indonesia

November 2008

Phuket Orphanage

Currently there are approximately 80 children starting from 3 - 15 years in this orphanage, this orphanage has been founded in 2004 by European expatriates, living in Thailand.

Through their help and support by the Thai government, a piece of real estate has been purchased and a complete orphanage has been built and established. This orphanage consists of various houses, based on the international know Principle from the SOS Kinderdorf, such as built at the Father Ray Foundation Pataya.

This institution has been built by the French Red Cross and has been supported by financial donations. There are no actual project which needs support or sponsorships, everything is new and recently built.

Financial Donations for food, learning material / books or computers are certainly always appreciated.

October 2008

Father Ray Foundation Pataya

During my work in Thailand from 2005 till 2007 I heard about the Father Ray Fondation; out of nothing Father Ray Brennan built this foundation. The foundation consists of The Village, Redemptory Drop In Center for Street Kids, Redemptory Day Care Center, Redemptory School for the blind children, The Redemptory Childrens Home, The Home for Street Kids as well as the Redemptory Vocational School for Handicaped. Unfortunately Father Ray Brennon passed away in 2005; his projects are carried on and fulfilled by numerous supporters.

Brother Dennis runs the Foundation and used to be a computer programmer with IBM in Canada; he left Canada to help Father Brennan in Pattaya and works with the foundation full time now. For nothing in the world he would leave the foundation. There is nothing more satisfying to him and all the volunteers than the smiles of all the children.

Drop In Center

More Pictures of visiting the Day Care Center of the Father Ray Foundation

The Drop-In Center was opened in February 2004 with the aim of offering and providing help to those children and young people living on the streets of Pattaya, or at risk of ending on the streets following a break up of the family unit.

There are many reasons why children and young people come to Pattaya, end up living on the streets and come to the Center for help. Some have run away from their family and home. Many of the younger children come from broken families and are unwanted by either parent or other family members. Others have been brought to the Center by the local authorities or the police after being abused by family members or members of the public, both Thai and foreign.

Street Kid Home

For many kids the odysey of travelling over land end here, as mentioned above may kids assume living im big cities is more fun and much easier than living in the country side. Most of them end up selling their body as young prositutes to surrive. The Street kid home provides food, school and shelter for approxemately 400 children, quite a few dissapear as fast as they came, since they are not used to follow rules. Here as well the Father Ray Foundation creates an environment with family similar structures, which works out often but not always.

Father Ray School for Blind Children

The School for the Blind is one of eleven schools for blind children in the whole of the Kingdom of Thailand. It was founded in 1986 by Fr. Ray, with the help of Mrs. Aurora Sribuapan, a social worker who is herself blind, and who is now Principal of the school. With over 170 students boarding and studying for free, these really are the lucky ones.

The Village

Fr. Ray's Village is modeled on the very successful SOS Kinderdorf International, a private welfare organization, operating in 132 countries around the world. SOS was established by Hermann Gmeiner, an Austrian, in 1949 for World War II orphans. The late Fr. Ray Brennan, an american Redemptorist priest, founded many projects in Pattaya, Thailand including an Orphanage, an Old Age Home for Stateless People, a School for Deaf Children, a Vocational School for the Handicapped Young Adults, a School for Blind Children and a Home for Street Children. All these projects accept poor children and young adults and provide them with love, food, medical care and education.

September 2008

Pakkred Babies Home

Due to many donations (toys, clothes, stuffed animals, etc.) a trip to Thailand took place end of September / beginning of Oktober 2008. The first stop over was the Pakkred Babies Home, south of Bangkok.

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