Family Care Foundation partner Chiang Mai Family Services

      Project Managers: Sally Nentwig and Darika Silverwood

      Socialization Program for Orphans

      Much of the population in the rural areas has been seriously affected by the AIDS epidemic in recent years, due to the practice of young women going to the cities and getting involved in prostitution, then returning to their village, marrying, and AIDS/HIV consequently infecting huge proportions of the whole village.

      Among other consequences, many children lose their parents to the epidemic, and end up in the care of their elderly grandparents. The children end up lacking a proper education, are often ostracized by society and without the basic essentials for a healthy upbringing - food, clothing and medical supplies.

      We have a socialization program to prepare orphan children for adoption to foreign couples, readying the children for the big change in moving to the West and living in a different culture. We take them out on excursions to hotels, the airport, restaurants etc., and have learning activities with them at their center, in addition to teaching them English. Every month a few new children are adopted overseas, and this program has proven successful toward the children's adjustment to the move.

      We work with an AIDS center and various orphanages that take care of HIV/AIDS orphans, as well as assist families and children in need taking food and supplies to help them.

      We also visit outlying provinces to donate new bicycles and toys to children who've lost both their parents to the HIV/AIDS virus.

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