When we started our home-based care program in 1999, our goal was simply to get our hospice patients back home with their families. We were homecare pioneers in Thailand and thus had no local organizations to turn to for advice and counsel. So we learned on the ground.

Today organizations and governments turn to Mercy for advice and counsel when they start their own community home-based programs.

Recently we have been helping organizations in Bhutan and Laos, and last week we provided a practicum on community-based HIV/AIDS care for the Mae Tao Clinic, the major health service provider for displaced Burmese and ethnic people along the Thai border.

Photos above and below: Mercy homecare social workers provide a practicum in community care along the Thai-Burmese border for staff of the Mae Tao Clinic.