The Independent Living Center was opened on August 7th, 2006. This Center is considered to be the first of its kind in Asia. The Center was built to help teenagers living with HIV to acquire the skills to become independent and able to live within the Thai society. This Center is located in Map-Ta-Phut about 6 kilometers from the main Center.

There are fourteen (14) young people living at the Center. Our goal is to have the Center become a home to twenty (20) young people by the beginning of 2007. There are two (2) caregivers, a teacher and a social worker, living at the Center. The young people are in charge of taking their anti-retroviral medicine on time and setting up their own appointments at the local hospital. The main center is still responsible for providing the medicine that is not available through the hospital and for all the living expenses of the Independent Living Center. The responsibilities of keeping and running a home are handled by the fourteen (14) young people and supervised by the caregivers. The young people join us for all our special activities and are welcome to visit at any time.

We believe this Center will be the bridge to helping the Thai society to understand and develop a positive attitude towards accepting HIV positive people.

In the future, these young people will become activists against the spread of HIV/AIDS with the Thai society.

We are very thankful to Mr. Pedrollo of Verona, Italy, the Pattaya Orphanage Trust in the United Kingdom and all our benefactors for their support and belief in our efforts to help the young people living with HIV to have a better quality of life.

Should you decide to support this project, donations made be sent directly to the:
St. Camillus Foundation of Thailand,
Bank of Ayudhya
Map-Ta-Phut Branch Rayong
Account Number 229-1-29336-3 (AYUDTHBK).