The Pattaya Street Kids Charity was formed in March 2000 to help a few kids living on the streets of Pattaya Thailand. Since then the charity has grown and now promotes a Student Scholarship scheme for children from very poor families living mainly in the slums of the city.
The charity is registered with the Charity Commission the United Kingdom and in Thailand also works in partnership with the Mercy Project a Thai registered Foundation which administers the scholarships on our behalf.

Education for the kids - Their Future

State education in Thailand is free to all children, but each family must be able to afford to buy school uniforms, books, and pens and to be able to get the child to school. For many of the families living in the slums, it is impossible to find the money needed to send their kids to school. Each child recommended for a scholarship is interviewed with his or her family to make sure that they understand the commitment they will need to make to ensure that they gain the most out of their education. All of the children on the scheme realise that with an education they not only improve their own future prospects but also those of their family.

The Charity has been involved in a joint project with The Rotary Club of Worthing, and their Australian counterparts The Rotary Club of Hawthorne Melbourne.

The project was for the refurbishment of dormitories at the Hauy Pong Children’s Home.

In 2008 over 600 children and scholarship students attended our New Year parties. These were held at the Hauy Pong and Mercy children’s homes. The parties were funded by the kind donations of our supporters; donations also go towards the running of the Day Care Early Learning Centre, this being run by the Mercy Project. The Day Care Centre is in one of Pattaya’s largest slum areas and gives support to the children there.

Every donated penny has made a difference to the life of the children, be it through education, food, clothing or just helping the kids enjoy some really special days.
Thanks to the generosity of supporters the charity has been able to take another twenty students onto our scholarship scheme.

The charity has continued to help with support at the Mercy Home in Pattaya. The numbers at the home often increase without warning when other children are literally dumped on their doorstep.
The organisation continues to support work at the Ko Pai slum infant day care centre where thirty-eight children attend from Monday to Friday and are cared for whilst their parents work. The Ko Pai slum is home to some of the poorest families in Pattaya so continuing support is essential and the education that the centre provides will enable the children to enter state schooling (if funding permits) when they are four years of age.

Children Future Hope

There is little doubt that continued support for the scholarship students will enable them to progress through the state education system and give them the opportunity to improve their future employment prospects that will take them out of the slums.
At the Hauy Pong Home more and more children are now attending state schools and given an opportunity to follow a vocational course, something that will stand them in good stead for when they have to leave the home when they are eighteen years old.
 
The Mercy Home will continue to need support to feed and clothe the kids and to send them to school.

All of these things take money and with your support we can make a difference to the lives of these children.

This is the charity website: http://www.pattayastreetkids.org/

At the following link the most recent pictures, of the children we could help, have been gathered: http://kidsofthekopaislumpattaya.fotopic.net/

This other link shows other kids, who need to be sponsored, as they have nothing and nobody can support them at the moment!
http://pattayastreetkids.homestead.com/childrenneedingsponsors.html