HDF Mercy Centre TH

HDF’s co-founder and president is Father Joe Maier, C.Ss.R., a Catholic Priest in the Redemptorist Order, who came to Klong Toey in 1972 as the Parish Priest in the Slaughterhouse neighborhood.  Father Maier joined with Sister Maria Chantavarodom in 1973 to start the Human Development Foundation for their poor neighbors of all religions.  The community served is primarily Buddhist with a small minority of Muslims and Christians. 

•	Education of slum children 
•	Child Protection
•	Combating AIDS 
•	Community Services