Shalom

Sangkhlaburi Homecare Assistance Liaisons Of Mercy

Bringing the SHALOM of God’s love to the ill and needy of Sangkhlaburi District through community health nursing, visitations, homecare and education assistance.

Medic-nurse outreach with telemedicine
Coordination of medical care with Anamai (district health outpost)
Home nursing care
Caregiver support
Companionship
Pastoral-counselling and Evangelism
Palliative care
Community Health
Livelihood training
Charity fund for insurance, transport, medical care
Afterschool education
Community projects and video-based outreach

Community Healthcare

The outreach team includes a medic-nurse healthcare worker along with a pastoral-counsellor to assess the needs, provide home nursing care, caregiver support, and address the emotional, companionship and spiritual needs of the clients.

Since the program started in January 2020, we have served 85 clients and assisted 24 clients with the terminal phase of their illnesses. We schedule homecare assistance with the visitation schedule and level of care determined by their health condition, nursing needs, and family support.

The assistance offered by the SHALOM program includes telemedicine, bedside procedures for wound/bedsore care, tracheostomy, stoma and enteric fistula care, indwelling catheter and feeding tube care, medication reconciliation, health monitoring, caregiver training and relief, companionship, music therapy, pastoral counselling, physical-occupational therapy, nutritional support, home visits for diagnostic blood test taking, accompanying to medical appointments, medical charity assistance, transport assistance and subsidy, assistance with registration for border health medical insurance.

We work closely with doctors in local clinics, the hospitals and the government village health outpost staff (Anamai) to provide the intensive home nursing care that our clients require. In addition to a focus on Homecare Aide livelihood support training, we have also assisted with the design and installation of solar power off-grid systems, water purification, shallow well water systems and animal rearing livelihood assistance (odorless pig and duck farming).

Our objective is to provide suitable low-income, rural people with skills-training as Homecare Aides for livelihood support.

Program Details

Monthly stipend 6000 Baht (~$150 SGD)
Two year training program
Training in practical homecare and community health skills
Eldercare and disabled care livelihood positions
Development of life skills and education qualifications with mentoring by SHALOM trainers

Currently, we have three trainees under the CALiSTA project. Our first trainee is a young widow with four children and no income, followed by a Karen bible school graduate and a young unregistered Mon lady.

Care Aid Livelihood Support Training Assistance

the CALiSTA project

Moving forward, our Elders' Daycare Centre Project will create a consistent sustainable source of income for the trainees while also providing elderly with a place where they can enjoy community, health check-ups, and activities under the care of our team. We offer this service to the community at an affordable $4 /day. However, for the elderly rural poor patients in our community who are unable to afford this, we are looking for sponsorship partners to support their care.