Center for Children in Need, Mae Tao, Mae Sot, 63110 Tak, Thailand..... Volunteering How to help; News; Children; Links; Contact; Blog....."The Center for Children in Need was founded in 2002. It has a small orphanage and also provides free of charge foster care for single parents. We are a Karen family and help any child in danger or need. They can stay with us for a short time or as long as they need. We are motivated by our Christian faith, but we work with children of any religion and respect their beliefs. We give orphans and abandoned children a safe and loving home and provide a healing environment for traumatized children. We offer education for disadvantaged children. Orphanage and Foster Care We look after children of all ethnics, religions and nationalities. We give care and shelter in emergencies, for longer or shorter periods. We also work with single mothers and look after children in their families. We take children at any time. And of any age. We often have newborns who mostly come very sick to us. Kids with special needs Several of our kids have special needs and learning diabilities. They have problems in the local schools. We give them special tuition in English and Burmese plus supervise their homework. Hopefully they can join a Thai school soon, which will open them much more possibilities for their future. our aims are protection of children and women from violence and abuse incl. trafficking to give orphans and abandoned children a safe and loving home education, especially of disadvantaged children to provide a safe and healing environment for traumatized children we provide shelter and protection in emergencies health care care for prematurely born infants counseling for traumatized children and women family and couple counseling education in English and Burmese with the option for university education activities as music and dance trainings, computer we need volunteers!!!! please look at our volunteering info We take short and long-term volunteers, if we have space even on short notice. One staff member is a medical doctor and psychiatrist and psychotherapist with qualification in single, group, couple and family counseling and dance therapy. The Center relies on private donations. The income we can create ourselves is not sufficient for the day-to-day running of the orphanage as well as providing proper nutrition, clothing, school and medical care. Please help and support us by donations and by sponsoring a child. We are a non-profit grass root project and it is very hard to find the funds for all the children that are in our care. We are struggling from month to month and really need your help. For details about our needs see News. Donations can be made through: www.betterplace.org (under construction) http://www.chipin.com (under construction) or directly to our bankaccounts! We have a German donation account, that was set up by school friends, so that it is possible to sponsor a child or donate monthly within Europe without paying high bank fees." Send me an email and I will give you the details: [email protected]