If you had dropped by our Mercy Centre last Sunday, you would have seen something quite stunning, something even more beautiful than you could ever have imagined in a shelter for abandoned, abused, and orphaned children.

Through thick and thin, 'almost momma' Rin and her two little sisters are always up for another round of 'phong pah' By Father Joe MaierPublished in the Bangkok Post: 18/10/2009. Spectrum section.

It's true. The kids do swim and wade in water up to their neck to school when the tides are in. And they love it. Stilt houses on the shore have no connecting bridge so they swim the 50 metres - clothes and books held dry above their heads with...

In the sprawling Bangkok slum area where Father Joe Maier has worked for decades, his organization has often been called on to help people after fires devastated flimsy homes.

It's the pits to be hungry when you're eight years old. Even with practice. And Master Moe had lots of practice. Once again Mum and Dad were doing "government service", as it's called. Not locked up in...

A Catholic priest in the slums of the Thai capital puts into practice the teachings of Polish Jewish pedagogue Janusz Korczak