The Binkle Blog

Kids in class at a school in the Kwai River area. It would look similar in Mae Sariang where we were located. The schools in Mae Sariang were like the schools all over Thailand. Go by any school in the country and it’s obvious that students are required to wear uniforms. Parents in the villages where the Pwo Hostel students came from had little to no cash and no place to purchase uniforms. So, the purchase of two uniforms per student per year fell to the hostel program to supply. There was a store in Mae Sariang that had a limited supply of uniforms that Marcia and Ladda would sometimes use. But more often than not, they would go to the main market in Chiang Mai where the uniforms could be bought in bulk along with all the other school supplies at the beginning of each school year. Ladda in the center with 4 students in their uniforms. All in this photo had just been baptized. Dtee Khwa on the far right grew into and remains a church leader.  In addition to the regular, everyday ...