Childlife-A
future for street children
Partner of "RASMI" (Rural and Social Management Institute)
supporting the project "School for Life"
Partner of "RASMI" (Rural and Social Management Institute)
supporting the project "School for Life"
Children’s
Stories:
Noppharat "Bill" Yaitong, 12 years
THE LAST JOURNEY:
When the baffled policeman saw the shabby pickup
truck travelling down the highway without a driver, he got on his motor-
cycle, followed the truck, and discovered a young boy at the steering
wheel. The policeman stopped the truck and asked the boy if he had lost
his mind. The boy gestured to the back seat and replied that his father
was lying there, dying. His father, suffering from AIDS, wanted to die at
home. That’s why he was driving from Pongkum to Lamphun. The police-
man looked at the father’s bleeding sores and waved the boy through.
Bill, ten years old at the time, drove his father the fifteen kilometres
from Pongkum to Lamphun. They arrived in the afternoon. No one was
there. That evening, Bill’s father died. Somewhere far away, the mother
waits for death to release her from AIDS. She used to be a waitress,
but when Bill last saw her, the restaurant had assigned her to other
duties washing dishes next to the kitchen due to her illness. Bill wants
to be a scientist and is a talented flutist. He plays the traditional Thai
flute and can improvise on it for hours at a time. Where did he learn to
drive a car? When he was eight years old, simply by watching his father
drive.
truck travelling down the highway without a driver, he got on his motor-
cycle, followed the truck, and discovered a young boy at the steering
wheel. The policeman stopped the truck and asked the boy if he had lost
his mind. The boy gestured to the back seat and replied that his father
was lying there, dying. His father, suffering from AIDS, wanted to die at
home. That’s why he was driving from Pongkum to Lamphun. The police-
man looked at the father’s bleeding sores and waved the boy through.
Bill, ten years old at the time, drove his father the fifteen kilometres
from Pongkum to Lamphun. They arrived in the afternoon. No one was
there. That evening, Bill’s father died. Somewhere far away, the mother
waits for death to release her from AIDS. She used to be a waitress,
but when Bill last saw her, the restaurant had assigned her to other
duties washing dishes next to the kitchen due to her illness. Bill wants
to be a scientist and is a talented flutist. He plays the traditional Thai
flute and can improvise on it for hours at a time. Where did he learn to
drive a car? When he was eight years old, simply by watching his father
drive.
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