Where it started

 In 2004 a team from New Heights Church in Mission, B.C. went to Thailand on a mission. They weren’t sure what they were looking for, they just wanted to help. They ended up connecting with a home of 33 tribal children being taken care of by one loving family.  The children were weak and hungry, not even able to complete a soccer game. With these children as inspiration they decided to make a ten year plan. These children deserved a chance at life and they were making it their mission to give them one.

The original group of kids in 2004

        As the project continued, a lot of things had to change. They were moved into a different home, and fundraising was done to get them a new truck to use for going to school and the market. In 2008 the kids started planting their own rice, growing enough to feed the home, pay for seedlings for next harvest, and were even able to share rice with other children’s homes.

The kids harvesting rice

          Seeing the impact rice had on the home, the team from New Heights made the decision to help BBF lease land. Land would give them the opportunity to get citizenship, which is required for many things in Thailand, including university enrollment and passport obtainment.  Aside from providing them a place to live, this land would give them space in which to grow rice and other crops to feed them and to sell at the market, along with areas for breeding pigs and fish,

Rice fields and the path to the land

Building Pig Pens on the land in 2010

Pigs need shelter too.. Thatching!! 

Next step: a road in!