lamp.charityThailand · the Philippines · wherever there is need

Igniting hope, transforming lives.

Meaningful change begins with individual action. No matter how small, every act of kindness carries value — bringing hope, restoring dignity and transforming lives in real and lasting ways.

Be part of the solution What we do
Direct actionwe deliver it ourselves
Partners worldwidemissions, schools, organisations
Guided by faithcompassion, integrity, purpose
Who we are

Small acts. Real change.

lamp.charity supports individuals and communities in need in Thailand and internationally — essential needs first, then education and lasting improvements in quality of life.

Villagers, sisters and friends gathered in front of a village church in Thailand
Village church, Thailand

Our mission

To address essential needs while promoting access to education and sustainable improvements in quality of life — through direct action and collaboration with partner organisations worldwide.

Sacks of jasmine rice, labelled lamp.charity, ready for delivery
Rice for families
“Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”Matthew 25:40
Children at the Southern School for the Blind holding up their gift bags
Southern School for the Blind
A priest handing a bag of rice to a parishioner at Christmas
Christmas, through the parish
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Countries, so far

Schools and families in Thailand and the Philippines — and a calling that doesn’t stop at a border.

Two women receiving donated laptops
Laptops delivered

Guided by faith

We are guided by faith in God’s love and a calling to serve others with compassion, integrity and purpose. Together, we can create a lasting impact.

Handing out Christmas presents to children at a village school
Seasonal outreach

Be part of the solution

All you need to do is become part of it.

Get involved
Serving a hot lunch to schoolchildren
A hot lunch
What we do

Six ways the light reaches people

01

Scholarships & learning

Providing scholarships, and supplying educational materials, books and learning resources to students who would otherwise go without.

02

Food & clothing

Distributing food and clothing to vulnerable communities — sacks of rice, a hot lunch and something warm to wear.

03

Community support

Supporting sanitation facilities and essential infrastructure, and standing with a mission in Thailand that helps women and children caught up in human trafficking.

04

Computers & access

Donating laptops and computers to schools and families in the Philippines and Thailand, opening a door to learning and work.

05

Internet & skills

Installing internet systems in underserved areas so classrooms can reach the world, and the world can reach them.

06

Seasonal outreach

Christmas and New Year visits, gifts, and sports and music equipment for under-resourced schools — joy is essential too.

Our story so far

Where the light has reached

I

Schools in the Philippines and Thailand

Educational books, clothing and laptops delivered to schools and the families around them.

Two women receiving donated laptops
II

Southern School for the Blind, Surat Thani

Gifts, a shared meal — and a karaoke machine, because a school for the blind should be full of singing.

The lamp.charity team with staff and students at the Southern School for the Blind
III

A mission against human trafficking

Supporting a mission in Thailand that helps, predominantly, women and children caught up in trafficking.

A village community outside their church
IV

Rice for families

Sacks of jasmine rice delivered to families, and handed out through the parish at Christmas.

Sacks of jasmine rice labelled lamp.charity
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Village churches and communities

Standing with remote communities: sanitation, infrastructure and the everyday essentials.

Christmas gifts at a village school
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Lord Answer My Prayer

A prayer companion for the phone and the iPad: the Rosary and the Divine Mercy Chaplet bead by bead, novenas, the readings before Mass and your own prayers — free, in fifteen languages, and it works with no signal at all.

Open the appThe Lord Answer My Prayer app on its home page
Who we stand with

Five places

These are the communities lamp.charity works alongside. They are named because a named place can be looked up, and because the work is theirs before it is ours.

The parish of St Francis Xavier at Pha Bong, Mae Hong Son

Church of St Francis Xavier

Pha Bong, Mae Hong Son · Diocese of Chiang Mai

A parish church in the hills of the far north-west, serving the villages around it. Mae Hong Son is mountain country: the roads turn to dirt, the parish is the centre of the village, and what arrives has to be carried in.

The parish, at the diocese ↗
The Church of St Teresa of Calcutta at Pai, Mae Hong Son

Church of St Teresa of Calcutta

Pai, Mae Hong Son

Its community hall, St Teresa’s Centre, is a gathering point, a prayer house and a cultural home for the ethnic minority Catholic communities — the Zomi and Chin among them — living and working around Chiang Mai and Hang Dong.

St Teresa’s Centre ↗
The Good Shepherd Sisters’ house and school, Din Daeng, Bangkok

Good Shepherd Sisters Foundation

Fatima Self-Help Centre · 4128/1 Soi Mae Phra, Din Daeng Road, Phaya Thai, Bangkok 10407

The Good Shepherd Sisters have worked in Din Daeng for many years with women and children who have very little standing behind them — including those caught up in trafficking. Theirs is the long, unglamorous kind of help that stays after the visitors have gone.

lamp.charity with staff and pupils at the Southern School for the Blind, Surat Thani

Southern School for the Blind

Surat Thani Province

Specialised education, residential care and life-skills training for blind and visually impaired children and young people across southern Thailand — the school many of them live at as well as learn in.

Fantasy Faces Thailand, lamp.charity’s own face painters

Fantasy Faces Thailand

Part of lamp.charity

Our own face painters. We take them along to schools and community days whenever we can manage it. There is no cause attached to this one and nothing is being taught: children like having their faces painted, and that is the whole of it.

What’s next

Christmas 2026

In December we go up to two small hill villages in the north of Thailand, as we have for some years now, so that the children there have something of their own to open on Christmas morning.

If you’d like to be part of it — a gift, a hand, an introduction, anything at all — you would be very welcome. And if this isn’t your year, that is completely fine and we mean it. We are a small team, growing slowly, doing what we can.

See what we’re planning Say hello

Ready to light a lamp?

We remain dedicated to being a light of hope for those in need. By turning faith into action, we strive to create meaningful and lasting change. You can help.

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