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Blog posts : "Updates 2024"

December 2024 Update

Merry Christmas!

Christmas is looming, and Santa should be out shopping for gifts. We have lots of little girls and boys who have never had a Christmas, or helped with Christmas decorations and preparations, so I am looking forward to seeing their…

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November 2024 Update

October was an exciting month for the children of Sarnelli. First of all, the floodwaters of the Mekong River subsided, giving Rosario school the opportunity to flush out the filthy waters around and in the school and church. The students were then a…

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October 2024 Update

September was a very wet month for Thailand, and the Mekong and other rivers flooded with the unrelenting rain, and also the fact that the Chinese released water in their dams to such a volume that cities and towns along the Mekong River were badly f…

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September 2024 Update

I have to apologize for being a tad late in writing this month’s news, but I wanted to include the news of today’s visit to Sarnelli House by Miss Universe (a Thai girl). WHICH NEVER HAPPENED. Much ado about nothing. Their bus had an accident, so the…

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August 2024 Update

The months seem to be flying by this year. Sarnelli House just had my 86 th  birthday party. It was special for me this year, because my baby sister Brigid was here that week. She is 18 years younger than me, and I got all caught up o family news. In…

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July 2024 Update

Dear All,

We are in the last weeks of preparing and renovating our old bakery into a home for abused and disabled babies who have severe mental deficiencies stemming from mothers who took drugs during pregnancies, botched abortions and severe beat…

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June 2024 Update

Here, at Sarnelli, the latest news is that the new school year has begun, and every morning our school trucks and vans ferry the kids to school, as the staff can relax a bit, after a long two-month school vacation. It is hard to witness anything so p…

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May 2024 Update


It is school time, since the new school year here begins May 15; a week later than usual. The six houses are buzzing with activity, as the children are trucked into Nongkhai for new school uniforms and shoes and backpacks and other school supplies.…

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April 2024 Update

Happy Easter to all!

The runts had a good Easter, with a party and their favorite food, pork and egg noodles (which is also MY favorite), plus Coke, cake and ice cream. This was the first Easter for many of our wee ones, and the Holy Week ceremoni…

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March 2024 Update

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! 

I suppose our friends in the cold and snowy areas are, for the most part, happy to see spring looming up on the horizon! I still remember my seminary days, when I had the job of getting up early to plow snow on the sem…

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February 2024 Update

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!

After our first Christmas and New Year celebrations since Covid, cold weather moved in. We have been dealing with cold, rainy weather, and the kids are showing flu like symptoms. We call these rains “Mak Muang Rains”, but …

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January 2024 Update

Happy New Year!

We just picked up two babies last week, but I haven’t met them yet because I have caught Covid again. I have a mild case thankfully, just a bad cough. No fever, headache, or sore throat. Not like the case I had last year, that basi…

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