Child Protection Thailand Project #54692

Help stateless children receive an education

by Family Connection Foundation

Project Report | Sep 17, 2025
The New Space!

By Rebecca Stowell | SOH Board Member

Cooking!

We are excited to share some wonderful updates with you! Since our last report in May, we’ve not only completed a new bedroom for our directors’ daughters, but we also added a fully equipped kitchen with a roofed deck. This new space is truly beautiful—a place where the family can live, work, and find much-needed rest.

This summer, we were blessed by two incredible volunteer teams—one from Colorado in June and another from Oregon in August. They contributed both their time and financial resources to help make this project possible. In addition, we utilized funds generously provided through GlobalGiving, and we were able to create valuable local jobs throughout the construction process.

Now, our directors and their family have a place they can truly call home on the Seed of Hope property. Already, the space is being used in inspiring ways:

Preparing and sharing meals with the children
Teaching kids to cook and learn life skills
Tutoring and supporting them with schoolwork in the new dining room
Offering the directors a quiet place to complete government paperwork and host staff meetings
Providing a much-needed refuge of rest and encouragement

What started as a building project has blossomed into a thriving environment where staff and children can gather, learn, and grow together.

We are overjoyed with the outcome—and deeply grateful to you. Your support has turned this vision into reality, and it is making a daily difference in the lives of our staff and children. Thank you for partnering with us to create a space that nurtures hope, learning, and love.

Eating their cooked creations.

construction on the inside space

beautiful kitchen!

homework time

dining room space

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May 20, 2025
Getting Cozy

By Rebecca | Board member

library with new curtains and book shelves!

Since the last report we have had the curtains for all the upstairs windows made up AND we now have library bookshelves! Now to start getting books on the shelves! It's starting to look so cozy and inviting!

Also, since the last report, we have made some big changes on campus. We are having growing pains, which is a good problem, and needed to shuffle some of the staff around before the next school year began. After much discussion, our cook and her kids are moving into the directors house and the directors are moving into the Education Center! We have always wanted to hold things loosely and be flexible. We can see the benefit of having the local directors and their three girls move into the upstairs guest quarters of the Ed. Center. This will actually be a blessing as they can now keep a close eye on the facility 24/7 and make sure the place is clean and well cared for at all times. But, this also means we are needing to do some improvements to facilitate the family. The guest quarters is just a main living room, bedroom and bathroom. We are now needing to add two walls and a door so the girls have their own space to sleep. We are also needing to add some kitchen space. We will do this on the deck just off the main room of the guest quarters. The kitchen will be needing an awning for sun/rain protection and all the kitchen amenities. We are calculating this will take close to $7,000 with materials and labor.

As this is yet another chunk of funds needed we are thrilled that we have the space for them and we don't have to build a whole new place for them, which would cost quite a bit more. We will go ahead and start with the walls for the room so everyone can have their privacy and then raise more for the rest of the needs. What we have in the account now is going to go toward the walls, screens for windows and then possibly some landscape as rainy season has begun and there is mud everywhere.

Thank you for following us on this journey and for the part you have had! So many lives are being changed for the better because of you all!

This is the space the new kitchen will go

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Jan 20, 2025
Another Year

By Rebecca | Seed of Hope Board Member

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