Hands Across the Water

Peter Baines was a NSW Police forensic investigator for 22 years and led the Australian and International teams following the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004. Peter was deployed into Thailand for several months leading the teams in the identification of the 5395 bodies that we recovered. On his last rotation into Thailand he met a group of kids who had all lost their parents. He then made a commitment to raise funds to contribute to the building of a home for them. That was the start of Hands Across the Water the charity. Since that time we have established ourselves in Australia, New Zealand and Thailand as a legal entity. Collectively we have raised over $25m AUD and importantly never spent one cent of donors money on admin or fundraising. We have seven different properties that we support in Thailand and our commitment is long term. We support the kids into and through university and currently have 47 kids studying varying courses across Thailand Unis. Much of our charity f...