Update on Hmong Refugee Children
Update on Hmong Refugee Children
You’ll be pleased to hear that Samaritan’s Purse supporters have provided over $40,000 so far to help care for 1,500 Hmong children living in a refugee prison camp in northern Thailand.
One of these children is Chai, a nine year old boy who is an orphan. His father and mother were killed along the Thai border five years ago. Today ‘home’ is a camp in Northern Thailand where he lives behind high fences, razor wire, and armed guards with other Hmong refugees who are prisoners in Northern Thailand.
Thanks to your support, Samaritan’s Purse were able to establish a school in this camp. It is one of the few things that gives a child like Chai a hope for the future.
This money raised will help to provide ongoing primary school education, a nutritious lunch meal each day, school equipment and supplies as well as blankets and warm jumpers as it gets to as low as 3 degrees at night. Each jumper only costs $7, so you can see how your gift can really make a difference!
Click here to give one year of education and lunch for one child in the Hmong school for only $60.
The school has been an enormous blessing to the children in the camp. Our partner Darawan Chookwan, who built the school says, “the school now holds different classes in the morning and afternoon which means that we are currently teaching three times as many children as we did in 2006 when the school started!”
The devotion of Darawan and the teachers is a great encouragement as is the growth in the number of children that we serve.
But they look to you and me to provide the support they need to keep the school and its programs running!
Thank you for your compassion towards these desperately needy children. Please pray for them, for the other refugees… and especially for the Lord to make a way for them to be released.
March 5th, 2009 at 4:33 am
Thank you so much for the update on the Hmong children. What i saw when i was on a distribution to the Hmong village will always be with me. People don’t realise what goes on outside their own little world, and thanks to Samaritan’s Purse, they do now. So thank you for your love and compassion, and the HOPE that you give to those less fortunate than ourselves. May God bless you all.
May 11th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
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