Thai Children's Trust

The Thai Children’s Trust, formerly Pattaya Orphanage Trust, is a registered charitable organization in the United Kingdom (No 1085407) which supports vulnerable and disadvantaged children in Thailand. It helps fund projects for orphans, refugee children, HIV positive children and children with AIDS, homeless children, tsunami orphans and children and young people with disabilities. The Trust has recently helped support the Teacher Preparation Center, a training school for mobile teacher trainers, in Mae Sot. The TPC trains trainers who work in the Eastern states of Burma/Myanmar, trying to restore and improve educational standards in areas ravaged by years of civil war. The Trust has also found some funding for villageONE, a project combining education and community development which hopes to start work in Mon State, Burma/Myanmar, later this year.

They are reportedly the largest UK charity focusing on Thailand. They send over £700,000 to Thailand’s most vulnerable children, providing a safe and loving home, which includes daily necessities like food, shelter, medical care and education for over 1500 children.

The Pattaya Orphanage Trust was founded in 1982 by Baron Riccardo Carini. Originally, it supported the Pattaya Orphanage which was founded by Father Ray Brennan, an American Redemptorist priest, in 1972. Today, the Thai Children’s Trust supports over a dozen projects over the country. Since 2009, the Trust has been under the patronage of Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster.

The charity focuses on disadvantaged and vulnerable children across Thailand. Projects it supports provide full care, including accommodation, education and medical care to over a thousand children. It also supports health, education and nutrition projects which help over 3000 children.

The charity supports a range of projects across Thailand run by its partner organisations, which include the Father Ray Foundation, Baan Tharn Namchai Orphanage, Sarnelli House Thailand, the Good Shepherd Sisters and the Pattaya Orphanage.

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