"Provide Children Living with Disabilities and HIV/AIDS the closest achievable experience to a normal Family"
Camillian Home is a registered non-profit children's charity operating on behalf of the St. Camillus Foundation of Thailand in the area of Lat Krabang, Bangkok.
The Home was initiated by Father Giovanni Contarin, an Italian Priest who has done extensive work for the poor in Thailand over the past 25 years. It targets orphaned children who are not only living with HIV/AIDS but who are also disabled – physically, mentally, or both. Managed by the St. Camillus Foundation of Thailand, children are brought up and taught values based on their own beliefs and cultural backgrounds. Everyone is free to express and follow their faith, whatever it may be.
Situated in Latkrabang in the outskirts of Bangkok, it is a unique facility designed to allow each child to receive specialized care and treatment in an environment that encourages and develops the capability of each child, regardless of the severity of their condition. The children are stimulated mentally and physically thanks to a full-time staff of caretakers, physical therapists and a resident nurse. Therefore, even an eleven year-old girl who is blind, autistic, wheelchair-bound, HIV-positive and orphaned is now living a life in which she smiles and laughs every day.
The Camillian Home is one of the few facilities in Thailand dedicated to caring for these abandoned children in a family atmosphere, and it aims to serve as a model in caring for vulnerable children with special needs. Significant work is also being carried out for disabled people living in the community. The Home receives very little government support, but instead survives on the generous support and donations from individuals and corporations.
Who Do we Look After and How?
- Orphaned Children living with HIV/AIDS who are also disabled
- Orphaned/abandoned disabled children
- Abandoned HIV/AIDS women with disabled children
- Free day care service and transportation for disabled children living in poverty
- Professional education, physical therapy and personal development tailored to each individual child’s needs and abilities
- Training/Advocacy programs to improve the home care of the disabled living in the community
- Outreach to improve the quality of care for HIV/AIDS/disabled children in other institutions
What we do
