Safe heaven orphanage

Tha Song Yang- a Thai Karen village north from Mae Sot

means a river pier that has 2 Yang trees. The name originates from the old location of the district office, where it had two Yang trees on the both of the Moei River banks, 1 tree in Myanmar (picture) and another in Thailand.



Safe Heaven Orphanage www.safehavenorphanage.org

It all began about 15 years ago, when Mrs. Tasanee Keereepraneed received a frantic message from a local villager in Tha Song Yang, Thailand, that a little girl had lost her mother during birth. In Karen culture this is interpreted as a bad omen, and the child is often killed. Having lost her own father at a young age and her children also having lost their father when Tasanee's husband was murdered, Tasanee decided that she, if anyone should be the person responsible for caring for the orphaned children of The Karen.
One by one they came, children with nowhere else to go were given to Tasanee to raise. She and her brother converted their childhood home into an open space able to accommodate up to twenty five children. Starting with whatever funds were available, she built the foundation of what has become the first Safe Haven Orphanage. Relying on her personal funds and the donations of the people of Mae Sot, Thailand, she was able to expand and take on yet more children. She now has thirtyseven children under her care. These days Safe Haven Orphanage is more like a large family whose members love and respect each other like brothers and sisters.

Words could never fully describe the beauty of this place and the love you feel in the orphanage!