Kinderleben.org - Strassenkinder Projekt in Mae Sai

THE BROOM SELLER WHO WANTS TO BE A SOLDIER: When Mod was
two years old, his father died of AIDS. His mother didn’t want to accept
the idea that she could also be infected with the illness. Now she is
waiting, nobody knows where, for her end. Mod’s grandmother took him
in. Mod searched for hard grasses in the forest and brought his grand-
mother the bundles he found. She tied them into short-handled brooms
and received twenty Bath (fifty Cents) a day for her work. Now, Mod’s
grandmother feels it is nearly time to die, and asked the School for Life
to guarantee Mod a good future. Mod likes to draw. He believes that he
has to be hard to come to terms with his life. He wants to be a soldier
some day. We’ll see. Since he has arrived on the farm, he plays like a
young child, seems more tender and is slowly forming trust to his new
life. He visits his grandmother whenever he wants to.