Sarnelli House Orphanage

Lindsey Ash is raising money for Safe Child Thailand
“Sarnelli House Orphanage”

on 4 July 2007

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Thank you for visiting my fundraising page. I need to raise over £1000.00 to help fund my trip to The Sarnelli Orphanage in the Jungle of Northern Thailand across the border from Laos. I will spend a week staying at the orphanage helping its expansion, building a play area and generally making life better for the children who suffer from AIDS/HIV who live there. Please dig deep and sponsor me online.

Deep's parents died of AIDS and Deep tested positive for HIV. He has a low IQ, but never gets angry or violent. He is a quiet boy, and is easily frightened. He does play and interact with the other children. People in his village and family were afraid of catching AIDS from him, and were constantly chasing and beating him. He now lives safely and happily at Sarnelli House.

Sarnelli House was opened on the 2nd of October 2000 and was set up to provide medical care and a new home for all the children affected or infected by HIV and AIDS coming to Sarnelli House. The necessity arose because more and more HIV infected children were brought into the care of Father Shea. Sarnelli House is built on a large piece of land, surrounded by bamboo and mango trees. There is room for expansion, for example a planned school. As of now Sarnelli House can accommodate 62 children.

I along with another 59 staff from BUPA Insurance are going to the orphanage to change the lives of HIV positive children in Thailand.  As one of the volunteers I will be travelling to Nong Khai, northern Thailand between 26 October and 7 December to volunteer at Sarnelli House, which is home to 126 children, most of whom either live with HIV or Aids, or have been orphaned by the disease.

Father Mike, who runs the orphanage on private donations, has been in Thailand for 39 years. Just ten years ago, one of his parishioners fell ill with TB and AIDS. Since then, Fr Mike has lost 140 adults to AIDS, and has accepted the responsibility for the children they left behind.

Ten people will fly over each week for six weeks to volunteer in the orphanage and help the local community. Each group will stay at the orphanage for one week and will tackle a specific need, such as maintenance work within the orphanage, creating a games area or playground for the children, projects in the local community, and garden landscaping.


Sarnelli House is the only institution of it's kind in the north-east of Thailand (about 1/3 of the country) which is looking after these kids. Even though the Thai authorities bring children to Sarnelli House, they don't support Sarnelli House financially. Sarnelli House is totally funded by private donations, or churches of many denominations. The children stay in Sarnelli House until they complete their education.

Sarnelli House is the only institution of it's kind in the north-east of Thailand (about 1/3 of the country) which is looking after these kids. Even though the Thai authorities bring children to Sarnelli House, they don't support Sarnelli House financially. Sarnelli House is totally funded by private donations, or churches of many denominations. The children stay in Sarnelli House until they complete their education.

 

 

 

Sarnelli House is the only institution of it's kind in the north-east of Thailand (about 1/3 of the country) which is looking after these kids. Even though the Thai authorities bring children to Sarnelli House, they don't support Sarnelli House financially. Sarnelli House is totally funded by private donations, or churches of many denominations. The children stay in Sarnelli House until they complete their education.

These children were being fed on an equivalent of 0.75 euro a day (30 Thai Baht). They were not going to school. At first, after the building was finished, young aids ridden mothers were bringing in their babies for us to raise for them. Some babies tested out with aids, some did not. Others were children dumped off by relatives or villagers.

The thai government is now giving us children from their welfare homes; children proven to have the aids virus. Sarnelli House has never been funded by the thai government (even though Sarnelli is the only home for children with AIDS in the northeast of Thailand

 

 

 Donating through this site is simple, fast and totally secure. It is also the most efficient way to sponsor me: Pattaya Orphanage Trust will receive your money faster and, if you are a UK taxpayer, an extra 28% in tax will be added to your gift at no cost to you.

So please sponsor me now!

Many thanks for your support.

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£1,111.00
+ £285.15 Gift Aid
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