A huge thank you to Mr. Winit and Miss Raissa for helping us secure a Thai Education Visa for Jii Nou. We took JiiNou to the Thai Immigration office to sort out all paperwork to get him a Thai student
Kokpherng’s Children’s Learning Center
We traveled to our Children’s Learning Center today to finish delivering furniture, curtains,curtain rods and school supplies to the 3 room preschool there. The tables are banquet tables. Dori cut off the legs so the preschoolers can use them. We
Jii Nou: Getting Into School
The morning we went to the school for the admission process there were several other new applicants there as well. We had no idea how long and organized the process would be. Every child was evaluated in their ability to
Jii Nou: What’s Next
This is our goal for Jii Nou. The Siriwan School for the Disabled. It is a very large school that offers academic, vocational, para-olympic, university-prep (Khon Kaen University), physical and occupational therapy, and lots of new friends. Barbara
Jii Nou: One Year Later
It’s been a long year, but a year of great progress for this once severely malnourished CP boy, we now know as Jii Nou. In the grander scheme, progress is good and we are still optimistic with our perservering through
Clothing Donations!
We greatly appreciate the donations of children;s and adult’s clothing that are sent to us. We make sure that every piece goes to someone who truly needs a helping hand. Thanks so much to Carmen Wong who sent a large
News on Jii Nou’s Future!
We visited Jii Nou’s special education school in Nong Khai to receive Jii nou’s 16-page letter of recommendation to attend the Khon Kaen’s Siriwan School for the Disabled. His Nong Khai counselor said the recommendation is good, but the decision
Christmas in April!
Christmas came to these poor Vientiane latchkey kids today. Gof, 13, Poum 10, (James 9. not pictured) Denny 8, and Namthip 2, spend all day sitting outside of their little apartment waiting for their mom to come home from work.
Kokpherng Outreach Event!
Staff, teachers and volunteers from the American Center @ That Dam in collaboration with the Give Children A Choice visited students at Kokpherng Village school on March 31, 2017 to donate books and games. They taught the children how to
Kokpherng Update
Great happenings at our Frank W. Manley Children’s Learning Center in Kokpherng Village. We have a new computer teacher and the American Center @ Thatdam will be visiting our school with lots of games and activities for learning English at