By MARGARET L GRAINGER | Vice President
Every week we feed 250 families in the local slum areas around Pattaya. We visit the homes of the elderly, sick and disabled bringing rice, food, pampers, milk and other needs such as medicine, clothes and water. Many of our families work as underpaid construction workers or garbage collectors as they have no education and some do not have ID cards. This means that employers can easily exploit them and pay a fraction of what they should be paid. This also means that wen we visit the slums they are not at home. Our centre is open from 6am until 8pm on Fridays so these workers can collect their food themselves.
We have been working with the students in an eco-club at the St. Andrews International School Green Valley to grow food for the families we support. The students grew over 200 plants including tomatoes, basil, chili and eggplant. We then gave these plants to our families who can continue to grow them, providing free food and the freshest produce ever!
With no running water in these poor communities, the fresh drinking water we bring is life saving. An added benefit is that they can recycle the bottles and get money back. The water is donated by One World Water so it is a win- win- win situation!
A huge thanks to everyone who hives so we can go!
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