Like a Song in Sangklaburi

We spent the final days of our trip together painting an absurd amount of murals at the Baan Unrak Children's Home in Sangklaburi, Thailand. This organization provides food, housing, love, and spiritual support to 150 children--mostly Burmese refugees--and vocational skills/employment to many single mothers. The kids are all vegetarians, and meditate/chant twice a day, in order to find inner peace, via the Neo-Humanist path (love and respect for all beings in the universe). We came in to spread some major art love, like paint coats walls.
Below is our Under the Sea mural. The children loved this one. They tried to touch each animal on the wall, even if it meant running and jumping AT the wall.

The Mystical Gate: a commissioned image, that was a big hit with the founder of the home, and will reportedly be used as a new logo for the organization.

The "Hand"scape mural: we painted a giant landscape on the wall,

and then talked with the kid's about different ways of caring for the environment. The children then lined up,

to make environmental pledges which they sealed by placing their painted hand on the wall,

creating an evolving hand-scape of earth-loving promises!

And...a bonus mural! Some kids collaborated to design and paint their own ideas on the wall, with slight guidance from Bri and Lisa.