Camillian social center in Rayong
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The Camillian social center in Rayong is a charitable institution in Thailand
, established in 1995 by Saint Camillus Foundation
and an Italian priest, Father Giovanni Contarin.
The Center provides shelter and care to homeless, indigent, and rejected people living with HIV
/AIDS
. Special emphasis is placed on women and children, as the most vulnerable members of the society.
In 2001, there were 50 adults and 19 children living with HIV in the social center.
By the beginning of 2009 the Camillian Social Center Rayong the number of children most of whom are living with HIV has expanded to 76.
This is over 4 sites the CSC Rayong, Independent Living Center Map Ta Phut, The Garden Of Eden Ban Kray, and the center for Handicapped Children in Latkrabang not far from the new Bangkok airport.
It manages seven projects in the Southeast of Thailand, including Palliative Care, Child Care, prevention education, supporting a network of PLWHA, supervising a self-sustaining rehabilitation community, providing scholarships for affected orphaned children and a center for HIV positive orphaned teenagers.
Since 1996, the Center is supported by Caritas Switzerland.
Thailand
Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...
, established in 1995 by Saint Camillus Foundation
Saint Camillus Foundation
The Saint Camillus Foundation of Thailand is a charitable organization in Thailand, set up and run by the Camillian monastic order.In 1995, the Foundation with the participation of an Italian priest Father Giovanni Contarin established a Camillian Social Centre in the Province of Rayong...
and an Italian priest, Father Giovanni Contarin.
The Center provides shelter and care to homeless, indigent, and rejected people living with HIV
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...
/AIDS
AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
. Special emphasis is placed on women and children, as the most vulnerable members of the society.
In 2001, there were 50 adults and 19 children living with HIV in the social center.
By the beginning of 2009 the Camillian Social Center Rayong the number of children most of whom are living with HIV has expanded to 76.
This is over 4 sites the CSC Rayong, Independent Living Center Map Ta Phut, The Garden Of Eden Ban Kray, and the center for Handicapped Children in Latkrabang not far from the new Bangkok airport.
It manages seven projects in the Southeast of Thailand, including Palliative Care, Child Care, prevention education, supporting a network of PLWHA, supervising a self-sustaining rehabilitation community, providing scholarships for affected orphaned children and a center for HIV positive orphaned teenagers.
Since 1996, the Center is supported by Caritas Switzerland.