mild child design: still awake, burning the candle at both ends

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thoughts of thailand

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Twenty days in Thailand were met with many smiling faces belonging to lovely people. One would not think to find such happiness in places normally considered depressing: the slums, an orphanage and a rehab center, to name a few.

But where there's a heart, there's hope. Twenty three of us had the privilege of working with the Duang Prateep Foundation this summer. Whether teaching and playing games in the schools, learning to weave with orphans, or getting up before the sun to share in the boys' rehab center morning exercises, we all had an experience we will not soon forget.

In this time of global economic recession, many such programs need to tighten their belts with the daunting truth that less people are apt to give when financial fears loom overhead like a heavy black cloud.

The foundation, in an effort to maintain financial sustainability, seeks to provide various career opportunities and training for the children who will one day grow up and have families of their own to support.

Mild Child Design is an offshoot of such vision. I believe there will always be a market for excellent products and beautiful design, especially when it is fair trade, environmentally conscious, and able to create a livelihood for those who perhaps, months before, were living in the streets without any hope of a home or a job.

Please join with us on this new and bright venture. As product lines are developed, I will continue to update the blog and direct you to stores that will be carrying our products.

While initially designed for Thailand's poor, my hope is to grow the company to include other communities in other countries that have the same vision for hope, despite seemingly hopeless conditions. The end result? to create as many smiles as the ones we encountered here.

Thank you.

Anissa

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Sunday, August 16, 2009

still awake, burning the candle at both ends

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