Kanchaburi Part III

The third part of the ministry we visited Saturday is called Safe House. This is a house a couple hundred meters up the road from the orphanage, which houses very sick people. With a small staff, they work with twenty or more people that no one else wants, from people with HIV to malaria to mental issues. How this woman and her husband find the energy to deal with all the demands is beyond me.


The Safe House.

Those who stay at Safe House and are physically able, are given some form of vocational training. This occupies time, supplements the income of the facility, and gives the 'patients' a sense of accomplishments. Here, women are weaving beautiful wraps that are worn buy Burmese women.

Another type of work is brick making. The bricks produced here are expected to last four hundred years, although no one has checked that personally yet.

This is a house directly behind the Safe House, where a couple now live. When they arrived, the woman could not walk at all. She has somewhat recovered, but as a married couple, they are still afforded the luxury of their own house here.

This is the 'ward' for people too ill to care for themselves. Two of the men in this building are paralyzed, including a man from Bangladesh, who had fallen in a construction accident and was brought here. No one in the area speaks his language, and he clearly gets no visitors. A couple of people on the team stopped to just hold his hand and pray for him and he clutched their hands in his and kissed them and tried so hard to speak in a way we could understand. It was heart-breaking.