We were delighted when we were approached by Paul the owner of a website dedicated to providing information for visitors to Thailand suggesting that he try to raise some funds for the PSKSP charity. Since then the seed of an idea has grown into a fund-raising campaign to be held over the Christmas / New Year holidays.
Members of the website visited the Hauy Pong children's home and we asked Ian of Memories Music Bar (MMB) in Pattaya who was one of the people on the visit for his impressions:
"My partner and I have had Memories Music Bar since June 2008. Otherwise affectionately known as 'MMB', it's a bar in the heart of Soi Sunee in Pattaya. We therefore have vast experience of the dangers that street kids face every day and every night of their lives whilst they are roaming the streets here. The majority of them who gravitate to Soi Sunee are here because their parents have rejected them and the kids have been left with no other choice than to scavenge for food and shelter. PSKP provides some of these kids with a safe haven, clean and comfortable surroundings and four square meals a day together with a guaranteed bed. During my working life I have had vast experience of being with kids from the ages of 4 - 18, whether it be as a psychiatric nurse, social worker or teacher; I know when kids are happy and relaxed, which, as I saw first hand on my visit to Huay Pong Centre on November 9th, the kids that stay there certainly are. I commend the work that PSKP does, and pray that it may long continue."
The video was written, directed and produced by Richard, a member of the TingTong Forum, and he has given us permission to post it here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyENxw0LEIY
