In addition to our ongoing home visits across Thailand’s 6 northern provinces, (which compliments our wheelchair distribution program), the Foundation also manages a local home visit health, hygiene, and therapy program currently helping more than 40 individual clients living in the surrounding rural communities of Chiang Mai.  Our patients are all house bound disabled persons who remain unable to leave their homes for a variety of reasons including poverty, inability to access transportation, and absence of adequate home care. Our goal is to visit each patient at least once each week.

Free services not only include physical therapy, but also personal hygiene such as baths, shampoos, haircuts, shaves, and even brushing teeth.  Sometimes we also provide a meal, or donations of rice, soaps, medical supplies, or even pampers. When needed we additionally provide ramps, grab rails, toilet chairs, wheeled bathing gurneys and even driveway improvements and house repair.  What began as a community outreach quickly caught on and has now gained the support and endorsement of local officials.  For them, it is a “win-win” situation that not only improves their public image, but also assists needy constituents.

This program is creatively managed under the direction of our Baan Piranan project, and includes patients from age 6 to age 80 and above. Disabilities are varied including stroke, muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, birth defects, hydrocephalus, polio, loss of limbs, and those disabled as a result of traffic accidents.

Our therapist Sukanya (pictured) visits all her patients on a much used Honda Dream motorcycle. Not only is this means of transportation limiting as to what she can carry, but it is dangerous, particularly in heavy traffic or during monsoon downpours. Our current goal is to provide our therapist with more appropriate transportation, hopefully an economical van or small car.  We welcome your support.  Sukanya needs 4 wheels rather than a dangerous 2.

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