By John H Quinley Jr | CEO
OK, we all admit it! Everyone in Thailand thought we had missed the bullet. No one projected the perfect Covid19 storm that began to brew in early April. With a rather porous border with Myanmar and then, mid-April's Thai New Year's Songkran Holiday came up too quickly to stop major travel across the whole country, Thailand now faces the worst challenge with over 100,000 cases in the third wave.
So, with new daily cases averaging over 3,000, and daily death rates in double digits, while vaccines just starting to be given Thailand has its biggest challenge yet facing down Covid19.
Step Ahead Working Hard to Help Safely.
As most of Step Ahead now has been working at home again since early April, some of our field staff fully masked and only visiting family homes in Bangkok's largest slum community- Klong Toey and in Southern Thailand rural villages have given very needed monthly distributions of rice, oil, dried good and cash inputs for electricity and rent.
Meanwhile, dozens of Zoom meetings work to coordinate and perform training across Thailand.
A Zoom all-staff meeting here shows a send-off party for a volunteer who worked with Step Ahead for several years and is now off to the USA to get a master's degree.
Thanks to all for standing with us now as we continue to Step Ahead for all vulnerable children and families across Thailand.
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