Pastoral Care For Prisoners and Migrants

Fr.Anucha  Chaopreaknoi

Manager

Framework

• To visit prisoners in prisons.
• To provide moral or ethical guidance and vocation training.
• To offer catholic religious services
• To assist inmates as necessary and appropriate.
• To organize educational activities for migrant worker adults and their children and to visit their families on a regular basis.

Mission

1. Prisoners

          - To visit prisoners once per month

          - To offer catholic religious services once per month and as needed.

          - To organize special events, such as Songkran, New Year, Christmas celebrations, etc. for prisoners with permission of the prison authority.

      2. Migrants

          - To visit and organize special events for foreign migrant workers, such as various ethnic groups from Burma.

          - To provide education

             + Training in the Thai language and English language and computer skills.

Health Care Section

Fr.Phornsan  Singchai

Manager

Framework

• To provide information for good quality of life, the prevention and treatment of illnesses, including AIDS and HIV.
• To organize mobile clinics for various needs.
• To collaborate with public and private organizations in fostering good quality of life and health care for the poor.

Mission

• To recruit and organize medical professionals, who live in the Archdiocese of Bangkok for volunteering services.
• To provide free medical services at various parishes.
• To collaborate with medical professional volunteers in other dioceses as needed, such as in various disasters.
• To provide health information to the general public.

Pastoral Care For the Eldery Section

Fr.Thananchai  Kitsamak

Manager

Framework

• To collaborate with senior groups that existing in parishes.
• To provide assistance to the elderly poor.
• To develop human resources leadership for workers at various levels.
• To promote and support activities for the elderly according to respective cultural or traditional occasions.
• To assist other aspects such as income or health care.

Mission

1. To establish committees for the elderly at three levels - diocese, pastoral districts and parishes.
2. To schedule committee meetings every two month at two levels - the diocese and pastoral districts.
3. To encourage various ongoing activities for the elderly.
4. To assemble committees at the diocese level every two years.
5. To provide useful information regarding the elderly to committees at all levels.

Pastoral Care For The Poor

Fr.Sarawut  Amorndit

Manager

Framework

1. Hatai Karoon House for children and the Communita’ Incontro School

              - To provide shelter for the disadvantaged children.

              - To oversee the daily life of the children.

              - To provide an opportunity for education from grade 1 to 10.

              - To provide social, moral, ethical training and other activities, such as farming, art and craft, or sport, etc.

2. Coordination with St. Vincent de Paul Association

    - To collaborate with St. Vincent de Paul staffs at all levels.

    - To coordinate with St. Vincent de Paul groups in parishes.

3. Other services for the poor

    - To help children who have been affected by problems of society.

    - To help the disabled

    - To collaborate with other social-work teams in the Archdiocese of Bangkok.

Credit Union

Fr.Worapoj  Wisitnondhachai

Manager

This section supports the cooperative saving and credit unions for catholic or non-catholic members of communities, such as parishes schools and villages, etc.

Framework

- To educate about cooperative saving and credit union by training seminars,

To coordinate and provide public information,

To visit and track progress and operations,

To support the establishment of new groups,

To provide other services according to the needs of each group.

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Fr.Sarawut  Amorndit

Manager

Framework

To work with people in urban and rural areas.

   - To educate the community about social work..

   - To provide training / seminars on social and development issues.

   - To support and enhance the implement of livelihood and quality of life for the community.

   - To enable capacity building of community leaders.

   - Foster collaboration within and between communities and other public and private organizations.

Mission

1. To foster knowledge sharing and provide applicable support to supplement urban and rural family income.

2. To encourage the coming together of people and promote the practices and celebrations of local cultural values.

3. To coordinate with local authorities to develop local communities / villages.

4. To encourages volunteer groups, community / village to help one another.

5. To encourage the exchange of knowledge between the professional communities and the villages to enhance networking of all parties involved.

6. To encourage savings within the community.

ADMINSTRATION

Fr.Sarawut  Amorndit

Director

Responsibility : Planning policy, budgeting, summary report, financial report, Other services for all section

Framework

1. To place the policy framework and action plan in accordance with the guidelines of the Archdiocese of Bangkok.

2. To allocate budget and to collect information and prepare a summary report on all operation and projects.

3. Enable capacity build skills professional development in every section in the social department.

4. To collaborate with other sections as needed.

Mission

1. To support and to provide information to the other sections of the social department.

2. To support all formats of the accounting to the other sections of the social department.

3. To collect the reports and project updates of all sections in the social department.

4. To summarize and report the results of operations from every section in the social department to the Archdiocese.

5. To follow the financial report every three months to the Archdiocese.

6. To enable capacity building of staff in all levels of the social department.

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Baan Hathai Karoon House For Children

vision & mission                       Objective                          Documents for application

During the year 1993, Bangkok Archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Thailand, by Cardinal Michael Michai Kitbunchu, was concerning for the children and youth in their outreach of education. Fr. Phibul Visitnonthachai, Director of Social Department of the Archdiocese of Bangkok, was sent to survey the old buildings of Dara Samut School at Chachoengsao. Then the buildings were prepared for supporting the education of the poor children. The work was accepted by Sr. Callist Maksakul, Mother General of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Bangkok, who appointed Sr.Phannee Phuruenhong to work for the children here since May 15^th, 1993.

The work began by the renovation of a canteen building, the 2 wooden buildings with two-story and another 2 concrete buildings which are on the same land of 20 Rai (32,000 square metres). They became a house for children and it was given the name “Baan Hathai Karoon”. “Baan” means a house or a place to support with love, kindness, and sharing. “Hathai Karoon” means the merciful loving heart of Jesus. So Bible is the main direction with Love as a medium and education as an instrument in order that the children will live happier in the future.

In the first year of 1993, Baan Hathai Karoon had 68 children which were studying at Dara Samut School in Chachoengsao.

In the year 2023, 62 children from Baan Hathai Karoon studied at Dara Samut School in Chachoengsao. They were 18 boys and 44 girls.

Board of Directors

Financial Supports

1. Baan Hathai Karoon is being supported by the Archdiocese of Bangkok through Social Department(Caritas of Bangkok)
2. Parents of the children are invited to participate as much as possible in financial supports for the costs of study, food, activities and private matters.

 Baan Hatai Karoon House For Children

1 moo 3, Tambol Klong Nakhon Nueng Ked, Mueng district, Chachuengsao province

Tel.033-459912 and 033-459477

Application for Baan Hathai Karoon

1. A child must come from a poor family. He or she may be an orphan or abandoned and lack of educational support.
2. They must not have serious sickness or mental disorder.
3. They must not be homosexual.
4. No drug addict, no tattoo on the body.
5. Need the approval document from a parish priest or a religious or an organization

Documents for application

1. Birth certificate of the child
2. 2 Copies each of the house registration of the child, of the father and of the mother.
3. 2 Copies each of the identity card of the Father and of the Mother.
4. Copies of Sacramental certificates
5. School certificates
6. 6 photos of the child (one inch)
7. The approval document from a parish priest or a religious or an organization.

Objectives

1. To help the poor children and the orphans for a chance to study and develop themselves.
2. To get together priests, religious and people to work in cooperation according to the spirit of Gospel. “…whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” (Matthew 25:40)
3. To help the poor children in the area of Bangkok Archdiocese and also the children in need from other places.
4. To educate young people about their dignity, both male and female, in order to prevent them from the Human-trafficking.