Chiangmai Orphanage Foundation
"Baan Kingkaew Wiboolsanti"

Staff, children, and friends at the Baan Kingkaew Orphanage

The Chiangmai Orphanage Foundation was the first charitable foundation in Chiang Mai province to dedicate itself to the care of needy children. Its founders were a group of women volunteers - both Thai and foreign who became convinced of the need for a such an organization through their volunteer work at Chiang Mai University hospital.

The orphanage was able to open on July 20, 1966, due to the generosity of Miss Kingkaew Wiboolsanti, who donated her home, land and a financial endowment to the foundation. Baan Kingkaew was therefore named in her honor.

At first, the home cared for just 25 children. It has since grown to provide for the needs of 50 boys and girls, ages birth to 5, under the loving care of our staff of nannies, nursery school teachers and experts in child development.