Refugee Orphanage Safety is a primary concern for refugee orphans for which LightBridge establishes sponsors. As a result, we cannot identify location, directors and children on the Website.
Before arriving at the refugee camp, these children saw and experienced the horrors of war propagated by the military dictatorship in Burma.
There are an estimated two million internally displaced people in Burma. For over 40 years, they have been forced to flee the army as it burns villages, tortures and kills its countrymen, and plants landmines around villages to prevent people from returning home.
As a result of this, parents have died and families have lost the physical or emotional capability to care for their children. It is these children who are smuggled to safety and live at refugee orphanages. Please contact LightBridge International for additional information about these orphans or to request a video about these children.
Huen Nam Jai Huen Nam Jai (Water from the Heart) Orphanage is located in the heart of the city of Chiang Mai, Thailand. Run by members of Chang Kham Church (the church and orphanage are on the same property), this is home to 13 orphans who have lost or been abandoned by their parents. Some were rescued from street begging and prostitution.
As the children grow, Huen Nam Jai is preparing for the additional cost of sending them on to higher education. Even public high school in Thailand is tuition-based, but the orphans here are working hard, applying for scholarships and programs that will make them academically competitive and prepare them for college and beyond.
With adequate funding, Huen Nam Jai will be able to open its doors to 11 additional children, making them a family of 24.
Blossom Kids Home Born out of a desire to protect and rescue exploited children in Chiang Mai, Blossom Kids Home transitions street children into a normal life and education routine.
The children of rural mothers and drug-addicted fathers, these children, ranging in age from six to 13, work late into the night selling flowers on busy street corners. The work is so exploitive and dangerous that it is illegal in Thailand, but the laws against it aren't working.
Blossom Kids Home gives these children a chance to attend school, learn the Bible, and sleep in safety. Caretakers also seek cooperation and approval from the children's mothers to allow the kids to stop selling flowers and start working towards a meaningful future.
To date, all but two of the seven children in Blossom Kids Home have been able to stop selling flowers and go to school full time. Now the task is transitioning the makeshift Blossom Home into a full-time care facility and orphanage.
Safety is a primary concern for refugee orphans for which LightBridge establishes sponsors. As a result, we cannot identify location, directors and children on the Website.
Huen Nam Jai (Water from the Heart) Orphanage is located in the heart of the city of Chiang Mai, Thailand. Run by members of Chang Kham Church (the church and orphanage are on the same property), this is home to 13 orphans who have lost or been abandoned by their parents. Some were rescued from street begging and prostitution.
Born out of a desire to protect and rescue exploited children in Chiang Mai, Blossom Kids Home transitions street children into a normal life and education routine.
The children of rural mothers and drug-addicted fathers, these children, ranging in age from six to 13, work late into the night selling flowers on busy street corners. The work is so exploitive and dangerous that it is illegal in Thailand, but the laws against it aren't working.
