Children in Need

There are future poets, scholars, and leaders among the children on the streets – the children you see begging, collecting garbage, and sleeping under foot bridges.

They just need a safe place to live and the chance to go to school.

We have been providing shelter, care and education for these children since 1976. Today we have over 140 children in our family, living in five separate Mercy Homes in and around Mercy Centre.

Our legal aid and anti-trafficking teams defend children in police stations and courts, and advocate for children’s rights in every important public and legal forum.

Our outreach street teems protect those street children who cannot or will not live with us. Vulnerable to human trafficking, the sex trade, drugs, and HIV, these children are in horrific danger daily; and we give them as much care and attention as they will allow. We think of all these children as a part of our Mercy family.

Our Programs:
Mercy Orphanages and Shelters

Anti-Trafficking and Legal Aid Centre

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Bangkok's "Slaugherhouse" Children Find a Haven

Related articles by Fr Joe Maier:

A Ride on the Wild Side of Mercy

The Pride of Klong Toey

Heaven's door opened at Soi Cowboy

The anonymous fate of Miss Na

Running Drugs for Mom, and Then Starting Over

It's all in the game

No parents, no food, no home.