Childlife-A future for street children
Partner of "RASMI" (Rural and Social Management Institute)
supporting the project "School for Life"
Children’s Stories: The siblings Preeyaporn "Nai" und Nutpong "Long" Tangswatdiwong,
A DOUBLE GOOD-BYE: It could have been three years
ago when Nai, her brother Long and her sister Ching woke
up and realized that their parents were gone. Poor and in
a hopeless situation, they had gone to look for work. To
Taiwan, some said. They were never seen again. An
uncle took the children in. He already had three children
of his own and a wife, with whom he fought about the
new arrivals. One morning, Nai, Long and Ching woke up
and saw that their uncle, his wife and the three children
had disappeared. He had vanished. Since then, Nai, Long
and Ching lived like Hansel and Gretel in a small hut in the jungle.
Nai 10 years
Long 11 years
They gathered leaves, insects and berries in the woods to survive. They are strong and are not
afraid of anything. Woodsmen from the village found the children and told them about the School
for Life. Ching, 17, started on the journey with Nai and Long and brought them to the farm. She
thought it was paradise. Ching comes time and again to see how her siblings are doing. She wants
to help out on the farm later, when we can provide living space for her. Isn’t she afraid to stay
alone in the jungle? No, she says, she’s not afraid of anything. Nai (her name means “where are
you?”) plays the Thai guitar and wants to be a doctor someday. Long (his name means “lost”) also
wants to be a doctor. He likes to swim and can do everything that a man needs to do to survive
in the jungle: from climbing trees to look for ants’ nests to washing the dishes.

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