Support 100 Thai prisoners and families with HIV

Loong Chai is always one of the first to be waiting for the Siam-Care staff on their prison visits to the hospital. Seated in his wheelchair or sometimes standing and waiting, he will be right at the entrance of the ward (huge cell) and as soon as the staff step in, his face turns into a big smile. After he fell during his...

Christmas holds a special meaning to many people all over the world. When one is far away from home living under very difficult circumstances it become especially important to have some link with home. For prisoners letters, visits and anything that reminds them of and keeps them in contact with home is important; Christmas...

The Siam-Care team visits Klong Prem prison hospital once a week. This hospital accepts the sick from 7 prisons in greater Bangkok and the very sick from different parts of the country. What does a visit look like? The SC staff go up to the men's hospice ward, the name hospice is a bit misleading as the patients are mainly...

Volunteer impression of prison visit July 2012Siam-Care receives many volunteers during the year who help with all sorts of different jobs that need to be done. Recently 4 young British women came along to visit some of the prisoners we support and here is a short report from one of them: “Having never visited a...

Thailand has experienced a very hot summer season this March/April/May 2012! For the elderly, small children, the sick and prisoners it has been a hard time. One can scarcely begin to imagine what it must be like for prisoners: packed into a overcrowded cell, surrounded by sweaty bodies laying next to each other like...

Ning is a 36 year old mother who spend the last 7 years of her life in prison for selling drugs. She is not your regular drug dealer; after her husband left her and her mother became sick she didn't know how to cover all the family expenses she was responsible for. Fern's (her daughter) school costs, her mother's hospital's...

Siam-Care ThailandOctober 2011 update on Prison ProjectPrisons Flooded!Many thanks to all of you who have support our prison project over the past months. With the persisting floods in central Thailand, we are all the more thankful and in need of assistance to help the many prisoners and their families in the flooded areas....

Ning is a single parent in her 30’s.  She is HIV positive and also an ex prisoner.  Ning lives in a small slum area in downtown Bangkok, in a one room ‘house’ with her mother and her 10 year old daughter, Fern.  When Fern was about to start school, Ning was working as a cleaner and did not...

With the generous support of donors, and the green light from the prison authorities, Siam-Care staff go to visit several prison every week. One of these prisons has quite a number of HIV positive prisoners and monthly group meetings are held with them. These groups are attended by up to 50 women at a time, and various...

I was a bit anxious about visiting a prison.  I had never been in one before.  I was told they would take my passport, that I couldn’t take anything in with me and that the gates would be securely locked behind me.When one pictures a prison for drug users in Thailand one thinks of dank and dirty dungeons,...

Thanks to the donations of so many faithful friends and a big donation from a trust fund we have the joy of informing you that the project  “Support 50 vulnerable youth in higher education” is  totally funded and  thus closed.  In closing this project we want to introduce you to two of the...