Everyone loves to hear success stories!  For more than 14 years, our major success stories have focused on the way in which the Foundation has touched and assisted the lives of what today now amounts to the many hundreds of disabled persons living throughout north Thailand.  For example, we have provided more than 600 free mobility aids to poor and needy rural and remote area disabled persons.  These mobility aids found new homes with dozens of elderly stroke and heart attack victims; with dozens of children suffering from cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, polio, hydrocephalus, and birth defect; with children and adults suffering from paraplegia and amputation; and with people ranging in ages from age 24 months into their late 80’s and early 90’s. 

     Our unique home visit therapy program has touched the lives of hundreds of disabled persons who had never before experienced home visits.  And our free Thai language self-help publications are now in disabled homes all around Thailand and in many foreign countries as well. 

But we also have some very special “success stories” to share.  One of them focuses on the life of 11 year old Borasee Baija, an abandoned hill tribe child with severe cerebral palsy who we discovered living inside a bamboo cage under a house in a mountain village in northwest Thailand.  With help from local officials, we rescued Borasee and brought him to Chiang Mai.  The Foundation placed him in a “new” home with a “new” Mom.  Borasee is today sponsored by a wonderful group of foreigners under the leadership of our dear friend Dr. Robert Chen.  Borasee is healthy, he receives regular physical therapy, and his smile can break a heart.

	Another of our current “success stories” centers around the life of 3 year old Piboon Noree who came to our attention as a disabled child living in a bamboo shack near a Chiang Mai landfill.  Piboon was born with a medical condition called “Constriction Band Syndrome” which in his case, meant that his left foot was turned backwards and some of his fingers were also heading in the wrong direction.  With financial support from Liliane Fonds, Nederlands and the considerable corrective surgical skills of Dr. Sudhee Sudasna, Piboon is today 99.9% normal and walking tall. Last but not least, dozens upon dozens of area disabled persons have participated in free computer, English, and music classes at our Disabled Center.  Many of our graduates have gone into business for themselves; others have secured dignified employment; and over the years, the Center has also served as the meeting point for disabled persons as well as several successful love relationships and marriages.

     Our “success stories” are not possible without your ongoing financial support.  We cordially invite you to become a participant in our “success stories” for the future.
Please see our website page regarding donations.  The most valuable and basic gift for a person who is unable to walk is the precious and life-affirming gift of mobility.

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