Welfare - The Mercy Center

The Mercy Center children and staff receiving from PILC Welfare team members the monies raised from the Opium Art Gallery night.

Wat Nongkeit Noi School is supported by PILC for scholorships and recently we funded the tiling of 4 class rooms.  This is the handing over of monies raised with the Opium Art Gallery night we hosted a few weeks back and the PILC book club bought 2500 baht worth of great books for the childrens library at the school, which is fantastic.

In the photo are Por Or and PILC members with children from the school enjoying the books already!!  Thanks to the PILC Book club members and PILC look forward to continued support for this school.

North Star Library: PILC Welfare team members and Khun Bic handed Marco from the Camillian Center 55,000baht to go towards the building of the Ban Eire 2 project.  This will be the second Irish Village built at Ban Chang.  Ban Eire 1, which was completed, last year, is going well with the 10 families loving the homes that they now have.  The building will commence shortly for the second project and the 10 homes that will be built will be filled with needy families that currently have no homes in the area.  PILC is proud to be a part of this worth-while project and I will keep you updated of the progress made with the homes.

Khun Tiew’s “Our Home” at Phuluang: PILC Welfare team members including Kathleen, Fiona and myself are handing over the monies raised from the Monster garage sale recently held there.  With these funds Khun Tiew has nearly reached her target of 450,000baht to extend the home so she can accommodate in more homeless girls and teach them the art of quilting and give them a warm and loving home environment.  PILC looks forward to continued support for K Tiew and “Our Home”.

Fountain of Life: Sr Joan and some of the older children receiving the monies raised from the Opium Art Gallery exhibition.  Many members were present as it was the Wednesday which is the card making afternoon at the center with the older children.  If any members would like to join the card making, please feel free to drop into the center, Wednesdays between 1pm and 2pm.

Fountain of Life Center: Dr Tassanee, the Head of the dental at Bkk Pattaya Hospital, and her team came again this year to check the children’s teeth at the Center.  The afternoon ran smoothly, with only a few tears!  Unfortunately, the diagnosis for most of the children was not so good with many having 10 to 20 cavities on their milk teeth already!  I can see we are going to have another busy time this year ferrying the kids to the dentist!

If you would like to help with this mammoth task, please either phone the center or Ingrid on 087-063-1807.