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BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: We repeat a story today about a remarkable man working in the slums of Bangkok, Thailand. He is a Catholic priest known as Father Joe, who, over 30 years, has set up schools that have educated thousands of poor Thai children. In the process, Father Joe Maier has skirmished with all kinds of people from drug dealers to church hierarchy. He is tough, irreverent and totally committed, as Phil Jones reports.
Radio Netherlands on Mercy Centre (2006)
31 July 2008
In the mid and late 1980s, Thailand was one of the countries hit hardest by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. By 1991, the country's prime minister announced that AIDS prevention and control were a national priority.
Fragile Strength for the New Year (2003)
31 July 2008
COMMENT: A Klong Toey woman with the odds stacked against her is not just a survivor, she's a hero
JOSEPH H. MAIER
MS Kanok-tip is President and Pioneer/Founder of the Klong Toey Slum Chapter of the Physically Ha
A Christmas Story 2005
31 July 2008
The cook found them at the side entrance just before dawn, when you could still make out the stars: Six-year-old Fon, her mum and our ferocious, slum-born, street-wise guard dog, all curled up asleep together.
The Pride of Klong Toey (2007)
31 July 2008
The triplets skip along footpaths, giggle, chirp, chatter. They have signals - really a special world all their own - especially at secret-telling time, which is pretty much all the time, writes FR JOE MAIER.
A Ride on the Wild Side of Mercy (2003)
31 July 2008
Up until two months ago, a few mornings each week, just before his kindergarten class, Master Note, a nine-year-old boy in our care, rode his imaginary broomstick horse around our Mercy Centre compound...