My husband collects junk and scrap, and takes odd jobs when he can. With the daily downpours, he doesn't make much. I don't have a job, so I watch our three kids. The baby's parents have been in jail for a week now for selling drugs. This results in malnutrition and leads to illnesses and slow progress among slum children.
Some mums are drug or alcohol addicts, or in poor health.
Many can't breast-feed for very long because they have to work. The foundation was set up in 1981 and two years later was accepted into the patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana. The Milk and Supplementary Food Fund was set up at that time thanks to grants from the Princess's and the Princess Mother's funds. The project continues to receives royal support to this day through annual grants. Currently 294 children, mostly aged between four months and five years, receive milk from the foundation's headquarter and four branches scattered in slums in Soi Phetchkasem 104, Soi Onnut 86, Soi Suayai Pracha Utit, and the Chao Phya community on Rama IV Road.