Filmmaker Barbara Grandvoinet has been working on a documentary for the past 5 years. This documentary presents an inspiring story of transformation. Junk-yard train cars become locations of learning and abandoned street children become hopeful youth. In 1999, Railway Police Commander Jarumporn Suramanee requested to use abandoned train cars to teach homeless children basic skills. It has now become a collective effort by the Railway Police to serve, protect, shelter, and educate homeless children living in Bangkok. The library train has become a home base, as well as a transition point, for homeless street children and troubled youth who live in and around Bangkok. The film follows the daily encounters of the street children and the cops. It brings to light the daily struggle the cops face to feed, clothe, and educate the children, and the battle to make their teaching sustainable for the children and for themselves.

Children of the Trains trailer