182 His Mission, Our Mission “Thai is a rather difficult language to learn and to speak,” he says. “Luckily people were always nice and tried to understand what I intended to say. “Another challenge is probably working with minors. Sometimes we all tried so hard to accompany them into a good future, but the voices of friends sometimes spoke louder to them. So to see them walking in a direction which would most likely bring them into unemployment, dropping their medical treatment, and even into criminal behaviour, was really tough to deal with. “And, of course, it is hard to see people dying. As a nurse, I have seen so many people die, yet some of our patients who died over the last years are still very close to me.” One of those patients was Bayfern, a young girl who came to the Centre at age 12, weighing just 12kg.
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