On Sunday 16 May I am joining other parents and teachers from Harrow International School in Bangkok on a 85km cycle ride from Ayutayah to Harrow School in Bangkok. The aim is to raise one million Baht  ( 21 000 GBP) for For Life and their local Thai charity CCD. These charities do amazing work supporting abandoned  disabled children in Thailand.

Your Pounds Dollars or Euros go a long way here so please dig deep and donate now!

Because of poverty and superstition disabled children are sometimes abandoned by their parents. They end up in Government run orphanages where lack of resources and low staff numbers mean they receive only the most basic care. Two to four carers will look after sixty to seventy children. For Life and CCD run Rainbow House, the first purpose-built home for disabled children in Thailand. The love and support that the children receive at Rainbow House helps them get over the restrictions of their disabilities and reach their full potential. Almost all of them are able to go to school and get a normal education. At the Government homes this is not possible.

Rainbow House also teaches the children about family life. CCD are continuously searching for the parents of the abandoned children with the aim of reuniting them with their children.  The hope is that when the parents see that their child is growing into their full potential as a person, with CCD's support and guidance, many children will be sent back to their natural parents. If the parents are not found, or if they are unable to take care of the child, CCD begins to look for adoptive parents in Thailand or overseas, who can give them a second chance in life. 

Rainbow House is a great model of how to care for and bring up abandoned disabled children. Although in the Government homes conditions are still appalling, things  have greatly improved over the past few years as a direct result of the example that CCD is continually making through Rainbow House.

For Life simply exists to bring life to the hundreds of disabled children living in Thailand. These children are abandoned, living in poverty, malnourished and uncared for. With your help, we seek to change their situation, for life!

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