Hoffnungsfunke

Hoffnungsfunke is a non-profit association based in Wiesbaden, Germany working on children & youth, education, poverty & hunger +2 more.

Hoffnungsfunke e.V. is a German registered association that runs a children's home near Phrao in Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand. The home houses around 107 children aged 5 to 20 from poor hill tribe communities, many of whom have no school in their remote villages. The association provides schooling, nutrition, health care, life skills and cultural identity support, and assists young people with further study or vocational training. The home also includes a farm with a plantation, fish pond, piggery and garden, and a training centre with a sewing room, bakery and car repair workshop. The association addresses drug use in hill tribe communities, where many children grow up around opium use. Its board members work on a volunteer basis, and all donations are said to go directly to the children. The association is based in Wiesbaden, Germany, and is led on site in Thailand by its chairman.