Warm Heart needs to go solar to cut our negative impact on the environment. We grow our own food, the programs we promote help reduce greenhouse gas and PM2.5 emissions, improve public health & reduce rural poverty. But we still depend on traditional power, power that is generated with coal and increasingly with Mekong River killing hydro! The minute we go solar and get off the grid, our weight on the environment is lifted, and our children will have a stable power source for online learning.

Young Hill Tribe girls in remote impoverished villages in the mountains of Northern Thailand have little chance to escape a life of poverty. Educational opportunities are minimal. Too often girls turn to the sex trade industry for survival. We offer an alternative choice. We begin by helping them learn the Thai language so they can attend public school, provide the required uniforms, school supplies, transportation, after school tutoring, health care, and a loving home with nutritious meals.

This project funds a community-based computer learning center that combines online with hands-on job training for disadvantaged rural youth in North Thailand. High drop-out rates leave rural youth vulnerable to trafficking for jobs outside their rural agricultural communities. With core competencies in customer service, English, computers, and hospitality, students will meet the entry-level requirements of major employers as they recover from the COVID19 lockdown.

Most of those who live in East Africa see wide, treeless vistas of straggly corn, degraded, dusty, red soil. Rains are increasingly unpredictable and storms more terrible. Temperatures are rising, crop pests multiplying and old diseases spreading again. Every year, fires rage across the countryside, the smoke reddening the sun and killing thousands of the young and elderly. Sustainable farming with Biochar offers a simple, easily accessible solution to many of the problems and feed thousands.

In a rural district of 54,000 people and only 4 doctors, the public health nurses have no time for home visits. The elderly and disabled of all ages live in dire conditions, without food at the end of the month, bedsores, no way to get to a doctor. Warm Heart's Project Access ensures rural constituents have home care and access to medical care. We bring wheelchairs and safety ramps. As the population ages, there are more elders at risk. Our staff coordinator and volunteers fill the gap.

Warm Heart provides a home to 45 disadvantaged hill tribe children, providing them with a safe, loving home, healthy meals, and the opportunity to go to school. Without our help these children would have no future. Our Young Smart Farmer project is teaching these kids how to grow organic gardens, which provides them with a valuable skill and helps feed all of the children at Warm Heart.

We provide a safe home for 45 children from isolated mountain villages and broken families who have no place else to go. We offer an opportunity to succeed through education, with family-style housing, balanced nutritious meals, school uniforms, tutors, and medical care. We sponsor 30 additional children at Ton Roong, a government boarding primary school for Hill Tribe children. But it can only care for the kids five days a week. We provide caregivers, meals, and teachers on weekends.

For 4 years, this project has taught small-holder farmers to make biochar, cutting greenhouse gas and PM2.5 emissions. It has trained 3,000 in Thailand and 5,000 in Africa who have made thousands of tonnes of biochar that they sell or use to restore soil, mitigate climate change and increase yields. Stop the Smoke! works in N. Thailand (that has among the worst air quality in the world) and Africa, but the project model can raise public health and food security, and slow climate change globally.