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Along a hot dusty track some 30 kilometres outside the Thai-Burma
town of Mae Sot some 120 children make the most of their surroundings –
an improvised football goal on hard, bumpy ground; cramped living
conditions in dark boarding houses, scruffy outbuildings. This is Maw
Taw Lu school.
Being close to the border but inside Thailand, it is a safe and
stable location for children inside Burma to be able to come over and
have an education; not being forced by soldiers into the army.
Other children live in the surrounding area where their parents will
be labouring long hours in the hot sun for $2 dollars a day. Their
parents cannot always be close by because they follow the different
crops to different locations.
The children, like any others in the world, have hopes and ambitions
for the future. They want to be teachers and doctors. One thing stands
in their way – hunger. Without nutritious food they cannot learn. Yet an
education can save them from the sweat shops and from being drawn into
sex tourism. It can give them self-worth and independence. Please help
us to save them from this vicious circle by giving whatever you can
afford. To have one nutritious meal a day will make a difference to a
child’s life.
The Thai Children's Trust, whose patron is Archbishop Vincent
Nichols, is supporting a programme to feed 1,000 refugee children. Just
£3 will provide a child with lunch for a month.
Click here to see a video about the school and learn how you can support this project:
Source : http://www.indcatholicnews.com
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