News

This is such exciting news, I simply have to tell you today. It’s not just ordinary day of the week news, but real exciting – like Saturday & Sunday news !!! – Even, to be bold and cheeky, Almost Christmas News.

Christmas in Klong Toey

6 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. This hallowed light brought three Wise men, schooled in the lore of

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.

Going going Back to School

24 October 2019

Dear everyone – it’s been a while, so a letter today to catch up, even a bit. Hope you are all well. Prayers and respect to all of you. Fr. Joe & all of us here

Life with our Children

30 July 2019

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&

A New School Year

18 June 2019

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.