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Wildflower Home, or Ban Dok Mai Pa in Thai, is a temporary home for unemployed single mothers with very young children and a shelter for unmarried pregnant young women prior and subsequent to the birth of their child. Women who come to Wildflower Home have no consistent means of support, no boyfriend or husband actively present in their lives and have a desire to make life-affecting changes.



 

 Wildflower Home accepts single women in desperate situations and moves them toward self sufficiency. The women learn their own value and develop self confidence. They are taught to see their situations in new ways, encouraged to solve their own problems, and strengthened to shape their own destinies. The women are taught to properly care for and support their children in such a way that will have a long term effect on their futures. 
• To provide safe shelter, health care, education and emotional support to women coming from difficult situations.
• To have each woman in a steady job or continuing education after leaving Wildflower Home.
• To be assured each child is in a healthy, loving environment after leaving Wildflower Home.  

 

Wildflower Home strives to initiate healing and harmony through and with nature.

While nurturing the healing of each mother and child who comes to Wildflower Home we focus on the ecological evolution and the ability of self restoration of Mother Earth.  We want to share the value of family community in which we live together with a common purpose, working cooperatively to create a lifestyle of simplicity and serenity that reflects a care for our environment.

On seven rai of land, Wildflower Home strives for sustainable development, learning to cultivate and receive gifts offered abundantly from Mother Earth without harming  or polluting our environment.

Wildflower Home is conscious to use methods of  organic gardening with our vegetables, herbs, fruit and livestock including fish, chicken and pigs. We practice composting, build earthen houses, make chemical free detergents, use alternative energy, produce hand-made crafts, recycle, reuse, etc. These are valuable practices for our women because approximately 75 % of them are from agricultural communities. During their time of stay, each woman will have had opportunities to experience different ways of working in an agricultural reality and can return to their homes with new ideas to share with their families.

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