Thien Than Nho Orphanage
Thien Than Nho Orphanage started with one child.
Ms My was a kindergarten teacher when she took in a child no one else could care for, and the home grew from there. About 20 girls live here now, aged from a toddler to fifteen. The older ones cycle to school in the morning, help cook in the afternoon, and keep an eye on the youngest, who is never alone for long.
In the early years Ms My also took in children with disabilities, and when she found facilities better set up to support them, she made sure they got there.
The care in the orphanage runs both ways. Neighbours help where they can to keep the home going, and Ms My runs a free acupressure clinic out of the same building, open to anyone in the community who needs it.
The electricity bill is one of the biggest line items every month. Solar takes a chunk of it back. That money goes where it was always meant to go: meals, school fees, and the chain of care that already runs through this place.
Supported By:
John Wright & Ken Cui
Installed
28/04/2026
System Size
5kW System
System
Donated By
John Wright
and Ken Cui
“We are very honoured to support the work of Little Sunshine Pledge, and the difference this will make for the children and adults here. GoodWe are committed to supporting worthy causes all around the world, and we are delighted to be working with Little Sunshine Pledge, installing solar systems all over Vietnam and Cambodia for the benefit of so many wonderful people. Love from John, Ken and GoodWe!”
- John Wright and Ken Cui
Brit Cooley | @degenghosty
In Proud Artistic Collaboration With
Brit Cooley aka Degen Ghosty
Comic book meets Studio Ghibli, with a twist." That's how Brit describes the four pieces she made for Thien Than Nho, and honestly, it's the cleanest way in.
She works as Degen Ghosty, and if you spend any time in her stuff you'll notice the same thing keeps showing up...a glow somewhere in the frame.
An orb in a kid's hands. A moon. A lantern strung up overhead. She's said it's her shorthand for resilience and possibility, the stuff she keeps circling back to.
So when the brief was a story about kids in Vietnam, she didn't reach for symbols. She had hers already.
What she actually wanted to build:
"A little magical world, one where kids carry their own light into the unknown, and when they come together that light becomes something bigger than themselves. It felt like the perfect metaphor for what Little Sunshine Pledge is doing."
The four pieces move through that idea in sequence.
A Familiar Shade is the soft one. A purple umbrella glowing on a cobblestone street at dusk...something bright on the horizon, but first, a little shade.
The Path Begins pulls way back, and you're looking down at three small kids leaving a village toward a forest path, each holding a fragile orb of light. Brit's words on this one land best:
"small, fragile, but enough to guide them forward."
Carrying the Light drops you right in close. A girl mid-run, pointing skyward, two more kids behind her, lanterns strung overhead, lights brighter the closer they get to each other. Her note on this piece:
family isn't always the one we're born into, sometimes it's the ones we find along the way.
The Beacon is the arrival. A haven in the woods at night, the kids' small flames meeting under a violet sky and pouring into the building until it radiates. Or in her words:
"What was once many small flames becomes a radiant home, proof that hope grows strongest when it's shared."
The thing she keeps coming back to in her own words about why she did this: art should matter outside of the screen. Hard to argue with that one.
