About us

We are three women, two Australians and an American, who were living in Rayong and Chonburi, Thailand, for some years before we came to know each other. We were each in Thailand due to our husbands jobs and met each other though an expatriate club in Pattaya on the Eastern seaboard of Thailand. We worked together on various welfare projects in the Rayong and Chonburi area, teaching English, arranging school sponsorships and generally raising funds to benefit the communities we were living in.

In December 2004, a tsunami struck the southern provinces of Thailand, which prompted us to visit the region and see if there was anything we could do to help. The expatriate clubs we were involved in were unable to offer support to the southern provinces as they were committed to their existing projects, so as individuals we went with the intention of a one-time visit and contribution. Three years later however, in the Krabi, Phang Nga and Ranong provinces, we’d helped;

• implement lunch farms in seven schools to supplement school lunches
• provide daily school lunches for more than 900 children in eight schools
• provide child sponsorships
• provide milk and milk formula for infants and children to the age of four years

As is the nature of expatriate life, we soon found that one of us was relocating back to Australia and another moving to a new country, leaving only one ‘Musketeer’ (which is what we’d started calling ourselves) in Thailand. After a brief settling down period we decided to continue our collaboration despite our distance and found ourselves in Mae Sot.

We are inspired by the belief that individuals can make a difference. We are committed to providing children of all ages, social and cultural backgrounds the necessary tools to receive a proper education and assisting them with daily nutritional requirements.

We subscribe to the ideology that children have rights as human beings and also need special care and protection. WWM work to help to meet these basic needs and to expand the opportunities for children to reach their full potential.