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Make Your Year-End Gift Count!

By Ericka

Dec 30

What an incredible year it has been for The Sound of Hope! We’ve accomplished so much together, thanks to our many generous donors who continue to invest in the lives of the kids in our care. Now we just have a few days left in 2017… but there’s still plenty of time to make a tax deductible […] Read more...

It’s Our 7th Birthday!

By Ericka

May 20

Happy birthday to us! 7 years ago today The Sound of Hope was incorporated, and we cannot believe how quickly the time has flown by. It’s been such an honor and a joy to help provide rescue, protection, and holistic care to more than 250 children in 4 countries for the past 2,557 days! This has […] Read more...

Hellos and Goodbyes

By Ericka

Aug 16

This summer, we have had some bittersweet hellos and goodbyes. The past few months have seen some changes in our Thailand Girls Home that we need to update you all on. First, we had two new “hellos”. There are two precious little girls who have become a part of the Baan Choo Jai family. Please allow us […] Read more...

Christmas Around The World!

By Ericka

Jan 24

We want to say a huge THANK YOU to each and every one of you who donated to the Christmas needs we shared for the children in our care. Thanks to you, all of our kiddos in Thailand, Burma, Swaziland and India had a wonderful Christmas this year! Our house parents in each home emailed […] Read more...

The Wall Is Finished!

By Ericka

Dec 17

We spent the last two weeks of November in Thailand at The Refuge (our home for refugee kids from Burma), and Baan Choo Jai (our Girls’ Home in Northern Thailand). It was so great to be back with the children, and extremely exciting to see that the wall around the Girls’ Home is finally FINISHED! […] Read more...

Give the gift of Christmas to children in need!

By Ericka

Nov 27

We’re posting from Thailand today, where we’ve had an incredible 2 weeks with our sweet kids here! We can’t wait to share some photos and videos on our blog soon – but after hearing first hand what the children want for Christmas, we wanted to make sure to share this blog ASAP!  We hope you […] Read more...

We’re headed to Thailand!

By Ericka

Nov 09

A few months ago, our House Mom in Thailand (Rapee) shared with us the wonderful news that she and the Groundskeeper (Rit Ti Ded) were engaged to be married! They have been so excited about their upcoming November wedding. She and the girls have been begging us to come to the wedding, but we knew we didn’t […] Read more...

The Great Wall of. . . Thailand!

By Ericka

Aug 25

If you follow us regularly, then you know about our Girls Home in Thailand, Baan Choo Jai (The Helping Hearts Home). Over the past 4 years, we’ve fundraised to buy land and a home, renovate the house, establish sustainability projects, and rescue 8 precious little girls out of some dangerous situations. All of these girls were […] Read more...

Thank you “Project for Awesome”!

By Ericka

Jul 28

Today we have some fantastic news to share! You may remember the video competition we entered back in December called “Project For Awesome“. So many of our friends, donors, and supporters helped us out by voting – as well as tweeting and posting our link to encourage their friends to vote too! It was our […] Read more...

Update from Thailand: Emergency Surgery for one of our girls!

By Ericka

May 05

We got a disturbing phone call in the middle of the night last week, all the way from Thailand. Ganjana, our youngest girl at Baan Choo Jai (our Thailand Girls’ Home) had been admitted to the hospital. We were very worried. After 3 days of testing and a lot of pain, the doctors finally realized […] Read more...

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