Making a Difference
A Single Starfish, by Loren Eisley
"As a man was walking along a beach reflecting on his life, one of his thoughts was that no matter how he tried to make a difference he always seemed to be spitting in to the wind."
More Projects
The Eden Centre
This centre provides medical care and education for 150 disabled children. Although they have an adequate building, they do not have enough income for wages and running costs. There are 34 staff including special-needs teachers, nurses and physiotherapists.
We provide regular financial help.
Ban Houay Ko
This tribal village is accessible only by boat. The 134 children have a school but hardly any books as the annual funding only covers the teachers’ subsistence wages.
We have provided them with textbooks and writing materials.
T.M.W Orphanage
83 children live here. On retirement, the local headmaster spent his life savings on buying a house and taking in homeless children. Although he needs £500 a month, his income was approximately £200 a month. He could not afford meat, clothes or mosquito nets and some of the children suffered from malaria.
SKR now helps provide funding and has bought a generator as the children often had to study by candle light.
Rehabilitation & Educational Support
SKR provides care and support for 10 teenage orphans. The charity rents a house for them and a teacher cares for them.
We have promised to fund their education - they all wish to go to university to become doctors, teachers or engineers.
Z.O
In the village of K.T is the Z.O convent. Here, a few Buddhist nuns care for 50 young girls (some of them orphans) and also run a school for 150 local children. We are now helping to feed them and have opened a clinic there.
MCCF
We cover the feeding costs at day-care centres in migrant worker camps in Bangkok and Pattaya. These offer care, food and protection for children while their parents are at work. Prior to this, they were wandering the streets prey to drug abuse and sex trafficking. The centres were established by Tracy Cosgrove, an English lady who lives and works there and ensures the safety of 150 vulnerable children. Three full-time staff are employed at each one.
Compassionate Orphanage
Run by a 26 year old man (an orphan himself) and his wife, this orphanage is home to 19 children. When we met him they were desperate - they had no money for food or rent. He had built up a large debt with the rice merchant and many of his promised donations had not materialised. We paid off the debt, bought ducks and pigs to help towards self sufficiency and give regular support. The ducks are now laying eggs and we have also rented 5 acres in which they grow vegetables to eat and sell.
Ban Kuta Loung
A Hmong tribal village in the hills where the school for 159 children had virtually no books or medicine. We have supplied them with both.
Ban Ku Kham Poam
A Kmu tribal village which we have supplied with school books.
Medical Supplies Aid
SKR has sent over 90 kg of essential medicine with a wholesale value of £12,000 which was divided among three free clinics including ours and the cancer ward at a local hospital.
Clinics
In one extremely poor area Duncan visited, he learnt that ill children there have only two options: get better or die. SKR has now set up a clinic here. It is open one day a week and treats 50 children each surgery. It is run by a trained nurse and three volunteer doctors work on a rota basis.
SKR supports another clinic in Mandalay with all their medical supplies.
V.S Monastery School
A monastic school for 450 local children. With Save the Children, SKR built 5 classrooms and 12 toilets.
The Cherry School
A Burmese doctor resident in the UK has funded the wages of 18 teachers at a monastic orphanage and school for 400 children.
We are always happy to accept donations for specific purposes and will ensure that the money goes directly to that project.
Blood Transfusions
SKR organises blood donors so that children with Leukaemia and thalassemia can have regular transfusions.
ODA
At this orphanage in Siem Reap, we have given regular support and installed a solar power system for light and energy. We have agreed to fund the further education of two high school students who want to study nursing.
Wells
We have installed wells and pumps at 2 schools in rural villages – giving 800 kids drinking water and washing facilities.
Individual Help
We regularly meet poor children and families who desperately need help. Here are just a few cases.
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Hla Hla Win is a charming and lively little girl we found living on the street with her mother and 2 younger siblings. Her father died of T.B. She now goes to school and, despite missing 2 years, Hla Hla is getting A’s in all subjects.
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We have paid for a deaf and dumb boy to train as a hairdresser. After 2 years he is now qualified and earning a wage that supports his family including a deaf brother and sister.
