Is there “HOPE” … for her?

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She lived in a small Hill Tribe village with her single Mom. The daughter was an outgoing and very intelligent child…so her mother moved to a nearby town, so she could go to school.

When they moved to Chiang Dao, her mom found it was impossible to send her to the public school as there was no money for her uniforms, mandatory meals at school and pay for her school books.  Her mom heard that there was a free school in the area.  The only “hitch” was that she would need to live away from home to get her education.  Because her mom had no income, she qualified to be admitted to the government welfare boarding school.

She was thrilled and entered first grade at nine years of age!  She loved learning and made very good grades all through school.  When she got to high school, her sophomore year, she learned about Sustainable Hope’s We Can English Club.  She was excited about all the club meetings that taught leadership skills, life skills AND conversational English.

When she was 20 years old, she graduated from school with confidence … knowing she would have a great future with her English-speaking skills.

The first place she interviewed for work, she was hired before the interview was over because of her English skills!

She now works six days a week and on her day off is taking online studies at a local university in business management!

Hear her story at www.sustainablehopeinternational.org

2019 UP-DATE: Promoted to Customer Service at Home Pro.

There are many youth like her … very intelligent, desperately wanting to escape the bonds of poverty.  They can’t do it without YOU…you can make a difference helping more youth like her experience the “We Can English Club”.  Please join us today to create a better future.

Your donation will help Sustainable Hope expand its We Can Club program into other schools … many schools like this one are asking for the We Can Club program … your gift will ensure more youth can set goals to a brighter future.

 Are you ready to change the life of a student?  Your donation will go directly to creating more We Can Clubs.  Yes, your donation will go directly to helping youth change their world.

Yes, you can make a difference … you can change their world, one youth at a time!  You can celebrate HOPE!

Thank you for your generous donation.  Go to www.sustainablehope.org press the “Donate” button.  Give a one-time gift OR give generously each month of the year.

Is there “HOPE” … for her?

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It was a monsoon rain … raining so hard you couldn’t see the road ahead!  You had finished working at a construction site – it paid well.  Your only transportation was a motorbike.  You and your wife run off the road and are killed.  … now the rest of the story …

He was two-years old … waiting for mom and dad to come home.  They never made it.  His grandmother adopted him.  This made a new challenge for this fatherless family consisting of a diabetic grandmother, the mother (grandmother to the 2-year old boy) and an 11-year-old daughter.  Their lives changed forever!

The mother of the couple had recently lost her job as a seamstress when a flood washed out her business.  She had to go to a larger town to earn enough to now feed four people.  This meant that the 11-year-old daughter now became the “mother” for her 2-year-old nephew!  This meant that she had to get up no later than 5 a.m. to iron her school uniform, awaken and feed her nephew, see that Grandma had her diabetic medicines, take the nephew to day care and then walk to school! After school, she picked up her nephew, saw to it that everyone got fed and did her homework.  Eight years later, faithfully fulfilling her role as “mother”, she maintained a 3.4 grade point average.  She knew how very important it was to finish high school to avoid the hard life her mother had … who only went through 9th grade.  She wanted to be an accountant and received a scholarship to get an A.A. degree in accounting.  From there she achieved a bachelor’s degree in accounting.  Her last two years were especially challenging because her accounting classes were all held in English. Hope … and lots of hard work brought her to this point in her life.  Today she works as a public accountant and is the bookkeeper for Sustainable Hope’s Thailand office.

She wants to tell you how thankful she is to Sustainable Hope for making her dreams come true.

2019 UP-DATE:  Auditor for a car dealership and Accountant for Sustainable Hope Thailand.

There are many youth like her… very intelligent, desperately wanting to escape the bonds of poverty.  They can’t do it without YOU…you can make a difference helping more youth like her experience Sustainable Hope’s “We Can English Club”.  Please join us today to create a better future.

Your donation will help Sustainable Hope expand its We Can Club program into other schools … many schools like this one are asking for the We Can Club program … your gift will ensure more youth can set goals to a brighter future.

Are you ready to change the life of a student?  Your donation will go directly to creating more We Can Clubs.  Your donation will go directly to help youth change their world.

Yes, you can make a difference … you can change their world, one youth at a time!  You can celebrate HOPE!

Thank you for your generous donation.  Go to www.sustainablehope.org press the “Donate” button.  Give a one-time gift OR give generously each month of the year.

Is there “HOPE” … for him?

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There was a terrible car accident … both people were killed!  They had a two-year old son waiting at his grandmother’s to get their hugs and kisses … those hugs and kisses were snuffed out in that car.

His parents were educated and made a good living and would come home on weekends to enjoy their son.  The accident ended the good income, the grandparents adopted him.  They had very limited income and earned a living by harvesting rubber trees and sugar cane.  His grandpa died when he was 9 years old.  It was up to grandma to care for him.  But, like most rural Thai’s the grandma worked her body to death in labor-intensive harvesting.  She could not work enough to pay for his education.  (Education is free in Thailand … sort of.  It does not pay for uniforms, books, meals, shoes, transportation to and from school, etc.)  So, he was sent to a government welfare boarding school.  She died while he was in high school.

He had a difficult life that most of us cannot even imagine.  The school housed boys in large dormitory room that would sleep 50 – 70 boys.  The bunk beds had one-inch thick mattresses filled with straw.  If there were more boys than beds, the overflow must sleep on the floor.  The school constantly had insufficient water, thus requiring the children to bathe in collected rain water, when available.  The discipline there can be brutal because they use bamboo sticks to hit and discipline the children.  The often study in 100-degree rooms with no fans so they can have a middle and high school education.

He found the We Can English Club in high school … it changed his life!  It was in the Club he decided he wanted to be an English teacher and worked toward that end.  His friend Bekah helped him get a scholarship at a university but was soon rejected from that college because “his English was better than most seniors at the college.”  They sent him to another university where he excelled in English.  When he graduated, he decided he wanted to be a university professor and would pay his own way to achieve this goal.

2019 UP-DATE: He is now serving in the Military.

“Thank you Sustainable Hope and We Can English Club … you made my dreams come true!”

There are many youth like him … very intelligent, desperately wanting to escape the bonds of poverty.  They can’t do it without YOU…you can make a difference helping more youth like him experience the “We Can English Club”.  Please join us today to create a better future.

Your donation will help Sustainable Hope expand its We Can Club program into other schools … many schools like this one are asking for the We Can Club program … your gift will ensure more youth can set goals to a brighter future.

Are you ready to change the life of a student?  Your donation will go directly to creating more We Can Clubs.  Your donation will go directly to helping youth change their world.

Yes, you can make a difference … you can change their world, one youth at a time!  You can celebrate HOPE!

Thank you for your generous donation.  Go to www.sustainablehope.org press the “Donate” button.  Give a one-time gift OR give generously each month of the year.

Is there “HOPE” … for her?

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Her mother died when she was 8 years old.  Her alcoholic father abandoned her!  Where should she and her sister go?  No one wanted them.  No one cared!

Do you care?

This is her story … her Grandmom took them in … for a while, then they were shifted to an aunt and uncle.  Even this was hard.  They already had two children of their own with barely enough income to feed their family of four.  What do you do?

She is a very intelligent focused child!  When she was 13, she was enrolled in a government welfare boarding school.  The good news is she had enough food to eat.  (Could you live on this? … the common meals were rice in a soup of chicken feet!)  She lived in a girl’s dormitory, had a thin mat on the floor and shared this one room with 70 to 90 other girls.  All she owned was the space of her floor mat.

In senior high school she joined Sustainable Hope’s We Can English Club.  Here she became confident in speaking English, learned to be a leader of the group and excelled in confidence to seek her future!

She worked very hard to have good grades.  After high school she received a full scholarship and went to pharmacy school.  She is now employed in a hospital pharmacy.

She stated, “Thank you Sustainable Hope’s We Can English Club.  I am lucky and hope I can help others later in my life.”

2019 UP-DATE:  She is now a Pharmacist Assistant at a hospital.

There are many youth like her … very intelligent, desperately wanting to escape the bonds of poverty.  They can’t do it without YOU…you can make a difference helping more youth like her experience the “We Can English Club”.  Please join us today to create a better future.

Your donation will help Sustainable Hope expand its We Can Club program into other schools … many schools like this one are asking for the We Can Club program … your gift will ensure more youth can set goals to a brighter future.

Are you ready to change the life of a student?  Your donation will go directly to creating more We Can Clubs.  Your donation will go directly to helping youth create a brighter future.

Yes, you can make a difference … you can change their world, one youth at a time!  You can celebrate HOPE!

Thank you for your generous donation.  Go to www.sustainablehope.org press the “Donate” button.  Give a one-time gift OR give generously each month of the year.

Is there “HOPE” … for her?

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Her mother had been sold into the sex industry when she was 12 years old.  Her uncle, with the help of police released her back to her family.  She married young and had two girls one year apart.

The youngest girl was sent to live with her grandparents for three years because there was not enough to eat.  When she was 8 years old, she had to stay home and care for their father, so Mom could go to work.  He had TB and often hit them with his cane.  When he died, they were sent back to live with grandparents.  Because there was not enough rice, they were often very hungry and cried because we were so hungry.  When she was nine years old, she and her sister found their own way to a bus that took them to a government welfare boarding school.

Good news!  We had enough food to eat … and we got to go to school and learn to read, write and so on.  She said “at the start, it was very difficult.  I had to live like a soldier and the school had many rules.  During holidays, I never had a chance to go back home because this school doesn’t let students leave school unless we can have a family member to come to take us out.  But my family always said they didn’t have time and I stayed too far from them.  I still remember the holidays and how my friends’ parents came to visit and took them home.  But I had to stay at the school … this made me sad.  … so I spent 6 years there until I graduated.   When I started middle school, I realized that I didn’t want to have the same life as my family.  I wanted to be educated.  I wanted to have a good future.”

“When my friends would go play, I learned how to do massages and earned money, saving every penny for my future my family couldn’t help me.  I told myself, “I will do the best that I can do.”  I promised myself that I will be successful in the future … I will not do the same as my family.  I choose to be happy and thankful for the good things.” A dear friend, Bekah, helped me get a scholarship to go to a university.

“Thank you, Sustainable Hope, for helping me dream big and make my dreams come true!”

2019 UP-DATE: Now she is a Flight Attendant

There are many youth like her … very intelligent, desperately wanting to escape the bonds of poverty.  They can’t do it without YOU…you can make a difference helping more youth like her experience the “We Can English Club”.  Please join us today to create a better future.

Your donation will help Sustainable Hope expand its We Can Club program into other schools … many schools like this one are asking for the We Can Club program … your gift will ensure more youth can set goals to a brighter future.

Are you ready to change the life of a student?  Your donation will go directly to creating more We Can Clubs.  Your donation will go directly to helping youth create a brighter future.

Yes, you can make a difference … you can change their world, one youth at a time!  You can celebrate HOPE!

Thank you for your generous donation.  Go to www.sustainablehope.org press the “Donate” button.  Give a one-time gift OR give generously each month of the year.

One of Sustainable Hope International’s scholars has a brighter future

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Thitaya was 11 years old when she inherited her 2 year old nephew – due to the death of his parents in an accident. To support the family Thitaya’s mother had to work many miles away, leaving Thitaya responsible for the total care of her nephew. She washed her school uniform daily, care for the nephew, ironed her uniform early every morning and took him to daycare, then walked to school. All through her schooling she maintained a 3.4+ GPA. Upon high school graduation, she received a scholarship from Sustainable Hope International.

This May she received her A.A. in accounting with a 3.25 GPA. She applied for and received two more years of scholarship. She is currently finishing her junior year in accounting from a prestigious university in Chiang Mai, Thailand. She will graduate with a Bachelors in accounting in the spring of 2016.

Sustainable Hope International has been operating its program in Thailand for the last 4½ years and this is their first graduating scholar to complete and receive a degree in Thailand. Currently there are 7 scholars sponsored by Sustainable Hope. Two other students have completed a 4 year Bachelor’s degree and will receive their diploma this fall. Their story will be appear here soon.

With help of people like you, Thitaya has been able to go from poverty to a high level of self-sufficiency – with Sustainable Hope

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Kaew’s Story

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Doungdao Dangsala (Kaew) was born near Bangkok, Thailand. Her mother gave birth to her only 16-months after giving birth to her sister, Ging, but her parents could not afford to care for both children. When Kaew was only two years old, she was sent to live with her grandparents in northeast Thailand – seven hours away from her parents and sister. Kaew stayed with her grandparents for four years. When she was six years old, she left her grandparents’ home and returned to live with her parents. Read more