The orphanage is getting close to the capacity and now the choices of which children should we take gets much more difficult. Make the wrong decision...a child is in the home who may be better at home, or worse, do not take a child and he has given to someone who uses the child for slave labor.
We got three new kids yesterday. The father has mental problems and refuses to take his medicine. He beats the wife and children. The community leaders and neighbors say that he is a danger, but the family are here illegally so the police are not worried about what he does. The wife, who is the sole supporter, is very sick ...possibly lung cancer and needs to go to Bangkok for treatment (which is only possible by herself with special permission due to her illegal status). The mother begged the home to try to persuade the husband to allow the children to live here. She could not ask him because she knows she will be beaten if she does. The entire community is afraid of the man and nobody will help the children because they are afraid of him.
One of the women who works here decided to befriend him and spent a couple of weeks talking to him. The kids already went to school at our school, so one day she asked him to come watch the children here. He said he never seen his children so happy. He thought they would be better off here. I think he is right but it goes against a basic belief that families should stay together. There are just so few options particularly when people are poor and in the country illegally.
So we have 3 more kids...maybe they will go back to the mother some day, but that is not likely. 110 kids now.
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