Our children are home – happy/ beginning summer school vacation. Final exams finished last week – Four hundred finished kindergarten three (going into the first grade) from our 22 kindergartens where 2,000 slum children joyfully attend. Here is a letter from one of the graduates: thought you might want to share.

Father Joseph Maier, an Irish American priest who has dedicated his life to helping marginalised and abused children in Klong Toey, Bangkok, will be well-known to long-time readers of the Bangkok Post.

Greetings again for the New Year – it’s time for another fabulous story -a true story of Miss Grace. Today is her second day of school in the first grade in an international school. We’re proud of all our kids, but she’s special

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.

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.

t’s Christmas in the slums: I have said often Our Klong Toey is a Salvage Place Drenched in Mercy, but always home. And today in your own homes in the light of the star from the East that guided the Magi