Online database for 100 Thai Children's Homes

Our last report indicated all good news as we thought we be launching with several new children’s homes. We also had a list of a dozen children’s homes from the Children’s Home Association that we spoke at in June. However, things have not worked out as we hoped. We did a couple of more demos, spoke to all dozen of the interested Homes, and did our best to contact serval others. The problem seems to be two-fold: either it is about money and the prospect of having to pay something later or they don’t feel our current features are meeting their real needs. The government is not asking for reports which is the main thing our software was providing and we cannot yet provide new homes with the ability to track families and scholarships for children to stay in the home and  go to school. 

In addition, I have been away from Thailand for the last 4 months trying to raise new funding. During the next two months, I’ll be  back to work full time albeit remotely for the next 3 months before we can actually get back into Thailand. In the meantime, our goal is to complete the new features relating to families and scholarships and start testing them before I even get back. We believe that this is what the Homes are asking for now and we can help them scale their work with families in order to keep more children with their families. A recent study by a local university notes that 55% of children in Thailand do not live with their parents. We want to help change that and support more families so that they can keep their children and ensure they will still have a chance to thrive and get an education. 

Your gifts to this project go directly to hosting our software so that Homes do not have to pay for it and thereby reducing the barriers to expanding their work and helping more children. 

Thank you for your support.