Visit to Ban Pong and Meeting Our Students Together with Igor, I once again traveled to Ban Pong, in northern Thailand. During this brief visit, we visited the children’s home and met with two of the five students who, thanks to our scholarships, are currently studying at various universities. Everything is going well for them.…
Developments in Thailand What stood out immediately was how green everything around the children’s home was. Beautiful grassy fields, trees full of lush green leaves—it felt like a breath of new life after those heavy Corona years. Over the past three years, we had not been able to visit the home, but thankfully, the internet…
In 1999, just before the establishment of Future for Kids, Solis Engineering, led by Fred Kouvelt, donated a complete water installation to the children’s home in Northern Thailand. Fred, together with Job van Slooten, spent several days on-site to install the entire system. Thanks to their efforts, the home was once again able to pump…
Travel Report Balt van de Made November 13, 2018 – from Thailand After paying only a fraction of what you would pay for spaghetti carbonara at Lake Como, we arrived around 4 PM at the grounds of the children’s home, where we were ‘greeted’ by silence. But not for long. Soon, we heard chatter behind…
Cambodia Study Grants After we made the decision in 2012 to give a few Cambodian teenagers with good high school results the opportunity to pursue a university education, we selected two students: Mr. Nov Vichet and Mr. Ye Keo. Both began their studies that year at Build Bright University in Sihanoukville. In 2013, two more…