The Boy with a Bamboo Heart The Story of a Street Orphan Who Built a Childrens Charity

The Boy With A Bamboo Heart is the inspiring story of Dr Amporn Wathanavongs. Orphaned at 5 years of age in a remote village in rural Thailand Lek was thrust into a life - long struggle to find his place in the world. Alone and impoverished he survived by begging for food in the markets of Surin until he was recruited to fight as a boy soldier in jungles of Cambodia. Despair and poverty lead him to attempt suicide until a stranger intervened with an offer of help. Thus begins Lek’s journey to become Dr Amporn a man best known as a foster father to the sick poor and destitute children of Thailand. The Boy With A Bamboo Heart is no ordinary book it is the inspiring story of one man’s journey to find his true calling in the face of unspeakable adversity.