Father Joe's Articles

Our special Mogan Children

10 January 2020

Hopes & Prayers & Blessings to all of you for this New Year. To tell you of fabulous tough love. Our most beat-up - no hope Mogan Sea Gypsy family.

Christmas Letter 2019

24 December 2019

Along with revered legends like the Archangel Gabriel, who appeared to the Virgin Mary to ask if she would be the Mother of Jesus, we hold dearly to the Star in the East.

A leap of three meters explores the depth of slum living It wasn't a big jump off Three Soldiers Bridge, maybe three meters, but no matter. She couldn't swim. When you can't swim, any jump into a canal is dangerous.

Seventeen years ago, Mum gave birth to a healthy son in a provincial prison hospital two hours outside of Bangkok. She named her son Ake (first born). To avoid the nightmare of trying to...

Long ago, on their way home from the slum slaughterhouse, a half dozen Kong Toey lads stopped in at a new neighborhood "beer hall" to enjoy a pint. It was three in the morning and they had just finished butchering their night's quota of pork

Street-born Baby Tack has a grandmother who adores him and a junkie mother who loves him even more than she loves drugs