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At Silence Softly Speaks we are honored to share the impact of your generosity. Through the support of Birmingham Public Schools, a village in Nepal has received a gift that has truly changed daily life. Thanks to the generosity of Birmingham Public Schools, Silence Softly Speaks was able to fund and install four modern rice mills in Sarkegad, Nepal. For years, villagers there relied on two traditional mills. One depended on the rainy season, working only when the Karnali River flowed strongly. The […]

I went to Thailand on November 1, 2005, my intention to change the lives of children involved in the sex trafficking trade. What I did not expect, is how much my life would be forever changed.My area of assignment was not the main campus at DEPDC but was the more rural location of BCPR, meant for children, some of whom had parents that were incarcerated, had abused them or abandoned them. The first little girl I met, was a 6 […]

Thailand History Dating back to the Neolithic civilization situated at the modern-day UNESCO World Heritage Site in Ban Chiang, the history of Thailand is long, proud, and fairly well documented.  Over the early centuries of the Common Era, tribes of Mon, Khmer, and Tai peoples established realms within the borders of modern Thailand; the Mon speaking Buddhist civilization of Dvaravati in the first millennium giving way to the Khmer empire of Angkor by the turn of the second millennium.   […]