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BaanChivitMai started as a small mission in the Bangkok slum areas in 1989. At that time, Eva Olofsson and some fellow workers started a centre for disabled teenagers. They began manifacturing silk flowers that were then being sold to help the teenagers get an education, as well as to finance the project.
Some years later, the project in Chiang Rai, in Northern Thailand, saw the light of day. Above all, children from the Mountain Villages found a home here, along with the opportunity to go to school. In 1995, a plot of land were bought in HuaDoi, some kilometres outside of Chiang Rai. Several organisations contributed to the construction of the new boarding home and the surrounding houses. In 1997, the new home in HuaDoi was opened, and today it is the base for many of the other projects.
The AIDS-home, Eden, was opened in 2001 to accept HIV-infected children. The following year we were happy to install the boarding home in PhayaGong for children from the most remote mountain villages. In 2002, we also opened the bakery in the Chiang Rai city centre.
Eva together with Moi, one of the first children at Eden.
Eva together with some girls from the mountain villages.
Sharing life with the children of Thailand
Eva Olofsson from Sweden has been working with social projects in Thailand since 1966. She was the initiator to the mission in the Bangkok slum area in 1989 and, some years later, also to the boarding home in Chiang Rai. Today, she is a travelling ambassador for the projects, which have grown to include more than 200 children and teenagers.
Eva’s work has attracted much publicity, not least in the last few years. In 2002 she received the award ‘Woman of the Year’ by SWEA, an organisation for Swedish speaking women who live or have lived abroad. Every year, special tribute is paid to a woman ‘who, in a notable way has contributed to strengthen the bonds between Sweden and another country’.
– People sometimes ask, how we find the strength to do what we do. But to see children come back to life, from being terrified victims to becoming harmonious individuals, is among the finest thing you can ever experience, says Eva Olofsson.
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BaanChivitMai, 591 Mu 6 HuaDoi, T.Tasai A.Muang, Chiang Rai 57000, Thailand |
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