Becca Schafer serves people with disabilities and their families in the Chiang Mai, Thailand, area. She works with Hope Home, a foster home for children with disabilities, providing daily care, love and guidance in a family setting. Here she shares a glimpse of how she integrates spiritual principles into the lives of the children she serves.
The reality of respiratory infections became personal to team member Becca Schafer and her team at Hope Home in Chiang Mai, Thailand, when one of the children with special needs in the home became ill recently.
“While our Yindee has a chronic respiratory condition, one day she was her normal self, but rapidly became ill, struggling to breathe, the next,” said Becca. “She was admitted to the ICU at our local hospital and spent a week on a ventilator and then another three weeks in intensive care.
The children at Hope Home in Chiang Mai, Thailand, are learning to use technology with the help of CMF team member Becca Schafer, who serves as a teacher and administrator at the family-style home for disabled children.