Childlife on television

Last month five of our children and Kru Ngaow (Childlife Director) headed to Bangkok to be part of Channel 7 live TV show Ja Mot (or if translated directly - Ant's Nose!)

Ja Mot, a television show usually featuring movie stars and singers, interviewed Kru Ngaow about Childlife, our work and the situation of the children at the borders.

The 5 children who attended watched on attentively from the live studio audience!

Childlife welcomes in the winter

Now we are well and truly in November, Mai Sai and Northern Thailand has said goodbye to the rainy season and hello to the chilly winter dry season.

The dry season has allowed the children to start planting new vegetables again, with the children waking up early in the morning to tend to the garden.

Developing the Children's Council

A training camp was held for some of the older children to learn and develop skills to prepare them to be part of the Childlife Children's Council.

Pee Pee, the mentor for the Children Council ran an intensive weekend of activities both inside and outside the shelter to to develop a range of skills focusing on patience, discipline and team work. The weekend also included some fun trekking and camp fire stories.

From this training the new Children's Council will be chosen.


The Childlife Children's Council is a group of the senior children at the shelter. They meet twice weekly and discuss issues at the shelter ensuring the children are empowered. Over the past 4 months the Children's Council has been given greater responsibilities and now oversee the major operations at the shelter. This move has seen many of the older children step up to the responsibilities and develop some great skills for the future.

Scouts for the younger children

Last month the younger boys at the shelter were treated to a range of boy scout activities to learn discipline and patience.

The program included different sport and exercise activites emphasising working in teams and groups. The program was finished with a fun short trek learning about team work, held outside the shelter!


We thank Pee Bang, a volunteer from Bangkok for developing and running this fun program for the children.

Learning handicrafts

Some of the children recently visited the Pong Ngam Catholic shelter to observe their handicraft project. The shelter has developed a well rounded handicraft project producing a wide variety of products.


Our children got the chance to look at their products as well as discuss how they operate the project. Many of our children already make handicrafts however the visit was an opportunity to exchange ideas.


Childlife looks forward to working with the Pong Ngam shelter to develop our own handicraft project to develop more skills for the children.

Music Workship by Twelve FM

Last month the shelter was visited by people from Twelve FM community radio station to hold music workshops for the children.


They worked with many of the children, demonstrating and teaching guitar and drum skills. They also offered 3 of our children 500B scholarship to undertake further guitar lessons in Mae Sai.


Twelve FM also organised a cool football match with the older children at the local Sangkhong School.

The children loved the workshop and we thank them for offering the opportunity for some of our children to further develop their musical talents!

Pee Pee returns to Childlife

This month the children at Childlife were very happy to see Pee Pee return to work at Childlife.

Pee Pee left Childife a few months ago to pursue further studies in Chiang Mai however he has now returned back to continue his role at Childlife.

All the children and staff we very glad to see him return.