This week marked Thai Mother's Day and homes and schools throughout the land…
This week we celebrated another trip around the sun for Fr. Mike. He turned …
STORIES FROM OUR PAST:
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St Patrick’s House is open again St Patrick’s House continues to provide shelter and love to another cohort of Sarnelli House boys. It was first built in 2001 with donations from the Marist Fathers in Australia and ... read more |
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Thai Literacy Camp Sarnelli House takes the education of the children here very seriously. The support comes in many forms, and not only financial. Br. Keng provides great ... read more |
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Cebo Ride 2016 This year was the 15th Annual Cebo Ride – and it was a great one! We were blessed with a beautiful summer day. Sunny, but not too hot... read more |
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The Reading Corner All children love to read or to be read to. With this in mind, Charlotte Pleunis, one of our recent volunteers generously donated a bookcase, books and cushions ... read more |
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Helping hands A great activity was organised by our long term friends from The Netherlands - Ben and Angelique Ummels. They worked with four children who have walking problems ... read more |
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Huahin trip 2016 Last month was a very special time for 12 of our children as they were chosen to accompany Kate, staff member Kru Noi and ... read more |
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Coming event: Cebo Ride 2016 read more |
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Graduation Story Watching the children of Sarnelli House develop into teenagers and young adults comes with mixed feelings of ... read more |
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Christmas Party Outreach Program Our belated Christmas Party for the Outreach Program, once Kate returned from ... read more |
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Irish Ambassador Visit We were honoured to receive the Irish Ambassador to Thailand, Mr Brendan Rogers, to Sarnelli House ... read more |
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50 years a missionary priest On Saturday 23rd January the annual Church Feast for St Cornelius Church in the village of Pi Si Tong was held... read more |
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Father's Day 2015 Last weekend was the King of Thailand’s birthday, Dec 5, and Thai people celebrate Father’s Day at the same time... read more |
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Art Story Christmas is nearly upon us and for the last few years we have been running a Christmas card drawing competition among the children at Sarnelli House ... read more |
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A Working Visit, Rotary Club Forbes Thanks to members of the Rotary Club Forbes, Australia for organizing a working visit to Sarnelli House in the school holidays in October... read more |
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In Memoriam |
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On Jomp’s farm The rainy season is a very busy period on Jomp’s farm. Our staff and the kids have put in an enormous shift in ... read more |
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Cebo Ride 2015 Another very successful Cebo Ride is over for 2015. Many thanks to the fantastic ... read more |
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Future careers The university and senior high school year has already started for some students this month, ... read more |
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Self sufficiency After much planning, hard work, some failures and some successes, Jomp’s Farm is starting to ... read more |
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Holidays water theme As temperatures soar up to 40C in the Northeast of Thailand in time for Thai New Year ... read more |
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Graduation Day at Rosario School 2015 The graduation ceremony at Rosario School started early to escape the worst heat of the day. There were about 200 students ... read more |
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More Relocations In October / November of 2014 after an influx of new children – (we had 22 new children received into the Sarnelli House family ... read more |
 | Two new arrivals The last two weeks have been a busy time with the arrival of two new girls bringing a total of four new children who have arrived in January 2015. read more... |
 | Some gorgeous faces from House of Hope read more.... |
 | Fishing the fish ponds Out on Jomp’s Farm the fish are literally jumping out of the water as the farm workers and the boys from Jan and Oscar House, shoulder deep in brown, ... read more |
 | All Souls Day All Souls Day was celebrated at Don Wai on Saturday 1st November at 8am. The little cemetery next to Sarnelli House was cleaned and tidied and the villagers’ graves had flowers and candles on them... read more |
 | Extra Special Classes A big thank you to the teachers at Rosario School who take an extra class every Saturday to help the children at Sarnelli improve their Thai reading and writing... read more |
 | Cebo Ride 2014 The annual Cebo Ride took place on Saturday 19th July inWinscons in USA . This event is now in its 13thyear and raises money for the children of Sarnelli House ... read more |
 | Fundraising Efforts 2014 Many thanks to our fundraisers who worked to raise money for the children and were from all around the world: Cebo Ride (USA), Achter kids (USA), Vrienden van Sarnelli (NL), Patrick Mans (NL), Mark Ayers (AUS) read more |
 | School has started (2014) School has started !! and with the new Thai school commencing Sarnelli House has had a bit of a reshuffle and kids and staff have been moved around to ... read more |
 | Piano Charity Concert and the journey On Sunday, May 11, 2014, two piano teachers, Artas and Indhuon Balakauskas with their 21 students from Yamaha Music School set up a piano charity concert in Bangkok... read more |
 | Tadum One of our girls who lived at Sarnelli House for more than 10 years has now begun to live an independent life in Nongkhai. Now she is 21 years old and she ... read more |
 | An inspiring week of education Ruamrudee International School (RIS) from Bangkok with 8 students and 3 teachers descended on Sarnelli House again in April... read more |
 | Contributing to a healthy diet With the cold season past there are not so many vegetables that can survive the real hot season. However it’s only warming up now so there are still green and healthy vegetables ready ... read more |
 | Roasario Witthayakan School and Viengkhum Wiihayakan School Graduations A total of 20 children graduated from their various schools this year. 6 young adults graduated from M6 or Grade 12, nine from M3 or Grade 9 and 4 from Kindergarten... read more |
 | Graduation at Utor Ruah It’s the start of the graduation season, with the end of term 2 and the Thai school year upon us. 2 young men living at Jan and Oscar House and 1 young woman from Nazareth House ... read more |
 | End of Term Night Out The start of the second and last term of the school year began at the end of October after 3 weeks of glorious holidays. Even though the majority of children go to ... read more |
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A Visit by Wang
A wonderful young Thai man by the name of Wang Chamchoy who was born without hands and feet, but is a graduate from the Fine Arts department of Chiang Mai University, came to Sarnelli House ... read more
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 | Confirmation A group of girls and boys from Sarnelli House who attend Rosario School in Viengkhuk made their Confirmation this month... read more |
 | A Royal Visit In August this year, a very generous Thai married couple celebrated their birthdays together. Artist Mr Manrat Srikaranonda who turned 85 years old and his wife had a concert with friends and ... read more |
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Sarnelli House Poem |
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Workshop for Sarnelli House staff |
 | Mother's Day 2013 The Queens Birthday was held on the 12 August and was a holiday throughout Thailand. Mothers Day is celebrated on the Queen’s birthday so ... read more |
 | The Outreach Program May 2013 The Outreach Program has been helping a small family survive for almost 2 years now. This family consists of a great grandmother Khun Yai, her husband a man from Laos ... read more |
 | RIS Visit 2013 The Ruamrudee International School (RIS) in Bangkok came to Sarnelli House from big, bustling Bangkok in the holidays to run a Thai language camp specifically for... read more |
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Long Live Songkran |
| Graduation 2013 Another year goes by and now it’s the end of the school year this month in Thailand. It’s graduation time at many of the school... read more |
 | Santa Clause is in the House No Christmas day would be complete without Santa Claus, and at Sarnelli House Santa made 3 separate appearances... read more |
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Christmas Outreach Celebrations |
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Psychologist camp |
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A Bumper crop |
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Halloween 2012 |
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Singing for the Stars |
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Sports Day The school holidays have started and volunteers are here doing their best to keep the children occupied and amused. There are English lessons that deteriorate into throwing missiles across the room with ... read more |
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Welcome home A great welcome home party was had last month on September 23 when Fr Shea arrived home from the USA after 5 and a half months ... read more |
 | Weeding the Paddies Throughout the countryside everything is a verdant shade of green, rice is growing in every spare acre or rai of land. On Jomp’s Farm as the ... read more |
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Mother's Day 2012 |
 | Cebo Ride 2012 The Annual fund-raising CeboRide took place on July 21st, 2012. This was the 11thCeboRide and it was also Cebo’s 18th birthday... read more |
 | Rice planting adventures It is now the rainy season in Northeast Thailand so work is on hold while the rain does its job and drenches the dry earth and fills the rice paddies ready for plowing and planting. ... read more |
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Sarnelli House selected as charity of choice for Japanese singer Makoto |
 | Bung Fai (Rocket Festival) Monday June 4th was Visakha Bucha Day in Thailand. This day marks the day the Lord Buddha was born, attained enlightenment, and entered into nirvana on the full moon day ... read more (with pictures and videos) |
 | Back to School 2012 The kids from all 6 houses at Sarnelli have returned to school! Breathing a sigh of relief and handing over the allotted pocket money, tucking shirts into shorts, ... read more |
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Another inspiring Koh Samui Adventure |
 | Songkran 2012 (Thai New Year) The Thai New Year or Songkran was celebrated over the 3 days of April from 13-16th. The House of Hope kids got ... read more |
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Teachers from RIS The week before Songkran, starting 9th April students from Ruamrudee International School (RIS) in Bangkok travelled all the way from Bangkok to run a 4 days ... read more |
 | Nongkhai Festival It’s March and the long summer school holidays have hit Thailand and up in Nongkhai and in the village of Don Wai in particular...read more |
 | Volunteer Activities in March Before the volunteers arrived in the few days after school was out at the beginning of March, the kids at Sarnelli House tried to keep up their out of school spirits by... read more |
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We came 3rd in Shai Davis Soccer Tournament 2012 |
 | Graduation March 2012 In March this year before the official start of the school holidays, the annual graduation ceremony at Rosario school was conducted... read more |
 | Bike repair weekend In January 2012 a young man from the USA arrived at Sarnelli House. He had previously visited 2 years ago with a group of teachers from the Ruamrudee International School ... read more |
 | Outreach work The Outreach Program makes home visits once a week. If new people with HIV/AIDS present themselves at the Friday morning clinic a consequent visit to assess ... read more |
 | TCT Visit The annual Thai Children’s Trust (TCT) visit to Sarnelli House this year was more exciting than usual. In February Crispian Collins, Chair of Trustees at TCT ... read more |
 | Fr Bird and Candle making Fr Bird, one of the three newly ordained young priests that Fr Shea is helping to train, has like his predecessor Fr May T, provided much support, guidance and love to the children already. Every weekend ... read more |
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Coming and Going for 2011 |
 | Christmas so different but just beautiful Christmas day is celebrated differently in all parts of the world. We are two German girls who ... read more |
 | 2011 Fundraiser Bob and Timmy (Thai wife) and their daughter Dr. Debbie and her friend and co-worker Dr. Heidi (Chiropractors) put off a fundraiser for Sarnelli every year in Phoenix, Arizona... read more |
 | Reach Out Day Christoph Leonard bought the usual Reach Out games and special lunch to the children of Sarnelli House in October. The games were eagerly anticipated and ... read more |
 | Christmas party for Sarnelli House Every year, Gersheim School holds a Christmas party for Sarnelli House! ... read more |
 | Rice Harvest While the terrible floods in Bangkok and central Thailand have inundated the countryside and the suburbs, much rice land has also been destroyed. ... read more |
 | Halloween 2011 Halloween was celebrated in great style at Pai Si Tong this year. The Jan and Oscar House was the venue for a great meal featuring the newly harvested sticky rice, ...read more |
 | At St Patrick's The routine work continues in the school holidays and the boys at St Patrick’s learn at a young age how to feed the pigs and the ducks and ... read more |
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Art School |
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Cookie Decorating |
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Professor Rob |
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Hairdressers at Sarnelli House |
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Kids Caring for Kids |
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Thoughts from a volunteer |
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Koh Samui |
 | Staying Afloat and More Since the opening of the salt water pool in 2010, which was bequeathed to Sarnelli House by “Smitty” Creston Smith and is located behind the House of Hope, the children have... read more |
 | Songkran 2011 The 3 day season of Songkran and the official start of the Thai new year, started on Wednesday 13 April 2011. At Sarnelli House it started under ... read more |
 | Linsey Pluckrose I have just returned from my fourth amazing trip to Sarnelli House. I first visited Sarnelli with my good friend Andy, who had made the trip with Bupa 6 months before and was keen to return... read more |
 | School Holiday 2011 The school holidays are heading into April with the first month gone already. Despite a cold start to the holidays with rain and weather down to 12 degrees which was unseasonably cold... read more |
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Visits Home The Thai New Year or Songkran falls in the school holidays and this is traditionally a very special time for families to get together. Some of the... read more |
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Graduation 2011 A record number of kids from Sarnelli House graduated school this year – 20 children in total. On March 5th at ... read more |
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End of School Year The countdown to the end of the school year is on. The Thai school holidays start in March and finish mid May. This time takes ... read more |
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Children's Day 2011 This year for Children’s Day January 2011 at Sarnelli House, Nok Air along with Udon Plaza Co Ltd picked up 40 children from each of the houses... read more |
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Hula Hoop The hula hoop craze has really taken hold in House of Hope. The little ones have been practicing for days to put on a show on Valentine’s Day ... read more |
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RIS Visit 2010 In December 2010 4 dedicated teachers and 4 local Thai staff from Ruamrudee International School (RIS) in Minburi, Bangkok visited Sarnelli House again... read more |
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Comings and Goings at Sarnelli House 2010 ... read more |
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Miss Dottie Miss Dottie’s life so far has not been easy. Dottie’s mother and father are both dead from HIV/AIDS and Dottie first came to Sarnelli House when she ... read more |
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Kids Caring for Kids' Raise Christmas Funds for Sarnelli Kids The fundraising took place after the November 27/28 weekend masses at St Jules Catholic Church in Lafayette, Louisiana, U.S.A. The Kids Caring for Kids organization, who ... read more |
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Stories Archive:
I Love Thailand TV Program
On the 20th and 21st September 2010 a film cre…
Graduation Day 2009
Boy, Gigi,Oum, Nut, Bee Fr Shea, Ahtit, Fah, Noo…
On Turning Sixty by Jack Shea
Jack Shea celebrating 60th birthday at Sarnelli …
Wiengkaew Tongwa
A Lao name. The name of a very unfortunate girl fr…
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