Back to School – 2011
Monday, May 23rd, 2011 Posted in Blog | 1 Comment »Yes it's that time of year again when all the children head back to school. All the children at Safe Haven Orphanage attend the local public Thai school in nearby Mae Tawo. The school year in Thailand is divided into two semesters, and for primary and secondary schools ... Read more
Bangkok Graduation trip
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 Posted in Blog | No Comments »Recently a number of the children went to Bangkok to attend Chom's graduation ceremony. And while in Bangkok we also managed to fit in many other activities. A visit to Jomtien Beach was the first exciting activity for the kids as none of them had ever seen the ... Read more
Clothing Donation
Friday, January 15th, 2010 Posted in Blog | No Comments »On the 15th January, the team from Yehpattana Tayeh Company, Bangkok, came to the orphanage bringing with them a huge amount of brand new clothing, material and food items for the children. As you can see from the photos, the truck was too large to drive into the orphanage ... Read more
Tasanee’s Birthday
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 Posted in Blog | No Comments »On December 22, the children celebrated 'Big Mums' birthday. It was also combined with a Christmas party so much food and drink was enjoyed by everyone and the sudden injection of sugar ensured that it was a very late night for the kids! [nggallery id=10] Read more
Football in the rain
Sunday, August 9th, 2009 Posted in Blog | No Comments »Photos of the children playing their regular game of football on a Sunday afternoon can be found at simonPhotography. Read more
Website update
Friday, August 7th, 2009 Posted in Blog | No Comments »The Safe Haven Orphanage website, even though it may look the same, has been completely rebuilt using Wordpress. This is going to allow for some exciting new features such as integration with our Facebook group, a new blog and better photo galleries including video feeds so please stay tuned. Read more
New arrivals
Friday, June 12th, 2009 Posted in Blog | No Comments »Numbers are constantly fluctuating, but it is estimated that 4,000 Karen have now crossed into Thailand in the last week after fighting between Burmese government troops and KNLA soldiers. To read more about this and to view pictures from the orphanage, please visit simonPhotography. Read more
Children score well in english competition
Monday, July 9th, 2007 Posted in Blog | No Comments »On July 7th Saturday every school in the Tak province had a technical competition at the school in Mae Sot. The Safe Haven children went to Ban Tha Song Yang school because the teacher had chosen some of them to participate in an English technical competition. They did very ... Read more
Sick Children
Thursday, June 7th, 2007 Posted in Blog | No Comments »After we had a party at the orphanage I came back to Mae Sot at the orphanage office. At night time around 10 o''clock the phone rang and I picked up the phone and they told me that one of my children was in the hospital. It was Doo ... Read more
Malaria and widow’s club
Monday, June 4th, 2007 Posted in Blog | No Comments »Recently three of the children have contracted Malaria - they are pictured in the photo. This is not something new at Safe Haven Orphanage, but usually the common problems of Malaria and Dengue get worse into July and August when the rainy season is at its peak. One of ... Read more