You did this.

You made this possible.

Thanks to your generosity in December we were able to send enough money for all of the children to have beds, and warm clothes and new shoes.

This wouldn’t have happened without you, your care, your partnership. Without you there is no Charis Project.
Thank-you for everything.
We’re looking forward to some really [...]

Some of you have asked us if there is something extra you could do this Christmas for the kids in the Charis Home. So we asked Chala what they need.
His answer was,”Beds, shoes, and warm clothes.”
The children sleep right now on thin mats on the concrete floor.
It is very cold for them now in this [...]

Dark:30 in the morning. Guitar, children singing in Hmong. I have come across 15 time zones; have been traveling on planes, trains, buses, trucks and motorcycles for 40 hours. It has been worth it.
Yesterday afternoon I bumped my way through the gate on the back of Chala’s motorcycle. For the first time [...]

Many of you will remember that last fall Chala’s wife left him. Chala has taken in 40 children who have no family to take care of them. These kids have either been orphaned by the conflict in Burma, or by poverty in refugee villages in Thailand. Some have living parents who abandoned them for reasons [...]