Hoay Maw

On March 25th, we took a trip to Hoay Maw in order to show thechildren and staff the Spring Harvest Videos. They were really excited to see themselves and most of them appeared in the video. They giggled when they saw themselves and Oranuk, the girl who shows Jessica around the home, was really shy and covered her face. They enjoyed seeing the videos and were amazed that about 6,000 children were going to be shown the videos about life at Hoay Maw.

When we asked the children what they thought of the videos they said that they felt sorry that they looked poor but that they were pleased that they had the opportunity to represent their life to people in another country.

We encouraged them that although they may not be rich in material things, that they are rich in God and in the way that they live their lives.

We also showed the film Prince of Egypt in Thai which they loved. By borrowing a video projector and hanging a sheet over a big white board frame, we are able to set up a movie zone in the church. The children wouldn't have the chance to go out to see a movie and so we take the movie to them.

Support A Child Afterwards, we photographed and interviewed two boys and two girls with the hope of encouraging people to support the living costs of a child. More Details ...

Having recorded the Spring Harvest videos, we wanted the children at Hoay Maw to be able to enjoy them in their own language. The children at Hoay Maw speak a number of languages including Thai, Chinese, Burmese and various hill-tribe languages. Most of the children attend Thai school and so by translating into Thai would enable most of the children to understand.

We worked with the three oldest girls at the Ban San Faan children's home in Chiang Mai where we are also involved.

Sarah

Hope

Peach

The three girls, Sarah Hope and Peach each worked to translate the narration for each of the three videos.

We found that Hope had a really clear speaking voice and so we recorded the voice-over for each of the videos.

To see the videos in Thai click here...

We wanted to use the music "Call to Freedom" by Terl Bryant with Psalm Drummers in the Spring Harvest videos. We were able to contact Terl and were delighted that he gave us permission to use the track. We love the heartbeat of the music.

A news item about the use of the track to raise support for the children at Hoay Maw has been posted on the Psalm Drummers website.

The ‘Call to Freedom’ track is also on iTunes (79p) at these following links:

• Original Mix (used in the videos) from the CD ‘Psalm Drummers’ on iTunes at this link
• Real World Richard ‘Dickie’ Chappell Mix from ‘Drums of Hope’ on iTunes at this link

We had the privilege to stay at Hoay Maw for a 24 hour period where we were able to document a day in the life of the children of Hoay Maw.

Their schedule was as follows

• 5.30am wake up and get dressed
• 6:00am prayers and worship in church led by house-parents
• 6:15am Chores – sweeping, litter picking, make beds, tidy shoes
• 6:40am Breakfast of rice with some chillies and egg mixed in 7:00am Line up and walk to school – more chores at school
• 8:00am School starts
• 12noon Eat packed lunch at school (rice from breakfast)
• 3:30pm Home from school
• 4:00pm Chinese school for 2 hours
• 6:00pm Play and Meal
• 7:00pm Time in church
• 8:00pm Homework (or “family group” time on Fridays)
• 9-10pm Bed-time

The children have a very long hard day compared to that which most children are used to. It was
however a joy to capture fun moments as the children are developing relational and recreational skills
in their “family groups”.

You can download the video below:

• Full Resolution MP4 141MB (if your player does not play this, try using VLC which does)
• Low Resolution MP4 30MB (if your player does not play this, try using VLC which does)
• Full Resolution MP2 DVD Quality - VERY LARGE 574MB file