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Name: Pepe

Role/Connection: Child at Home Hug

Country: Thailand

From Fragile Beginnings to a Future of Possibility: The Story of Pepe

Pepe will never know his biological mother. She passed away during his birth. He will grow up without a father. He passed away due to medical issues.

In addition to losing his parents, Pepe was born with a serious medical condition. He spent the first 10 months of his life living in the hospital where he was born. With no known family members to take care of him and a life sentence with a complex medical condition, his chance at a good and long life was looking pretty grim. The government contacted Mae Thiew who welcomed him into Baan Home Hug where he would grow up in a safe and loving environment.
Pepe was a very sick boy. Prior to Hands Across the Water stepping in to support Home Hug, Mae Thiew was faced with the daily challenge: to feed the children or provide medicine to the children to manage the medical conditions that had been passed on by their parents.

In 2010, Peter Baines met Mae Thiew and agreed to provide financial support for the children at Home Hug. Spirits were lifted, hopes were restored and the children stopped dying. There was enough money for food, medicine and a future for the children.

Pepe would get worse before he would get better though. In 2011, he was unable to make a scheduled trip with all of the children because he was fighting through some of his darkest days. He was in a fight for his life.
But he won.
Today, Pepe is a delightful individual who brings joy to everyone at Home Hug.

Since regaining his health and movement, Pepe has been able to get active again and play football. He loves the sport and a big part of his love of football is the community that it creates. It is a place for him to make friends and be part of a team.
Home Hug provides a place where he can be himself, he lives in an environment that is well equipped to care for his physical health but also his mental health. He spends a lot of time working in the farm with some of the other children who have difficulty participating in the cooking and ceramic activities.

With the medical and emotional support that Pepe receives from his family at Home Hug and Hands Across the Water, his condition is no longer a life sentence. He will have the opportunity to live the life he dreams of, to live a life of choice rather than chance.
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