Life with our 140 Klong Toey mob of mostly orphaned kids who live with us in five scattered houses here at Mercy Centre plus our small 2 acres’ farm on the outskirts of the city and the 40 kids in our kindergarten in the mud flats of Koh Lao for&

It’s a new school year in Thailand and I wish you could see our children spic and span in their new school uniforms. Kids who never had a new dress or pair of trousers, so proud to walk into their classroom and tell the teacher their name.

We did, didn’t we. We walked in the shadow of the Rainbow and tossed coins of gold across the midnight skies. Above the slums – above the pig pens. Above the water buffalo stalls.

A couple days slow, but really never late for Chinese New Year. The first thing we decided to do this year, to celebrate in your name and our name and most of all in the name of our most abandoned children in our Janusz Korczak school

It is a New Year and Mercy Centre is thriving as always with children’s play and laughter at every corner. The weather this time of year is pleasant, not hot not cold, no flood and no harsh sun. However, in the South of Thailand it has not been like this. Over Christmas the Southern provinces have experienced an unusual bad monsoon and almost half of the country has been flooded resulting in over 30 deaths, broken train tracks, collapsed bridges and closed airports. People have lost their homes and farmers have lost their crops.

A KLONG TOEY MISS. SMARTEST IN HER SENIOR CLASS, CAPTAIN OF HER BANGKOK LEAGUE WINNING VOLLEY BALL TEAM. BEAUTIFUL LONG BLACK HAIR COMING DOWN TO HER SHOULDERS