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  • Aussie Volunteer, Sandra Schultz, Returns to Support Thailand

    Aussie Volunteer, Sandra Schultz, Returns to Support Thailand

    Mundo Exchange volunteer, Sandra Schultz, from Australia returned to help us once again with our Thai Buddhist projects in Isan, Thailand. Sandra brought with her the joy of helping Thai people. She went to a forest wat and helped the monks learn a bit more English. Sandra finds...

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  • Eco Projects with Mundo Exchange and Lokgatat’s Interns and Volunteers

    Eco Projects with Mundo Exchange and Lokgatat’s Interns and Volunteers

    Mundo Exchange volunteers and interns are helping Thailand’s, Laekplian Lokgatat Association with environmental and community development aid projects. We began planning educational seminars for students of all ages that would be held at our Cultural and Learning Centre in Isan, Thailand. Mundo interns and volunteers...

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  • Sophie Fry: The Compassionate Volunteer

    Sophie Fry: The Compassionate Volunteer

    Thai Mundo Exchange and Laekplian Lokgatat team was very fortunate to volunteer at the Thai orphanage with Sophie Fry. For 2 years we had heard so many great words about Sophie from her sister, Amy. They were all true. When we first met Sophie, it was immediately recognized that...

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  • Thai Village Life with Mundo Exchange Volunteer Stefan

    Thai Village Life with Mundo Exchange Volunteer Stefan

    Stefan Amberger joined Mundo Exchange and the Thai association Laekplian Lokgatat as a volunteer in Thailand during July 2010. After completing his latest year of Austrian university studies in mathematics he jumped a plane and headed for Thailand to volunteer. During his orientation he visited...

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  • Volunteer Exchanges of Heart: Amy Fry

    Volunteer Exchanges of Heart: Amy Fry

    Amy Fry has twice volunteered with Mundo Exchange and now has assisted her Thai hosts as an orphanage manager; helping new volunteers learn how to work more effectively with the boys. While home in England she is a nurse and helps people there too. Amy...

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  • The Rough Guide to Issan Music, by Linda Danielson

    The Rough Guide to Issan Music, by Linda Danielson

    I’m in Thailand for the first time as a Mundo Exchange and Laekplian Lokgatat volunteer, a traveller, a musician, an Irish fiddler to be exact, with a nodding acquaintance with South-East Asian music. Since I’ve been here I’ve spent quite a bit of time on...

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  • Giving elephants a better life

    Giving elephants a better life

    Camille from Australia decided to help out with some elephants during her time in Thailand. Having a natural apathy with nature and seeking a fairer balance between humanity and other life on this planet she felt it her duty to investigate the treatment of local...

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  • Mud Brick Making

    Mud Brick Making

    During my stay interning with Mundo Exchange in Nong Khai, Thailand, I spent close to three weeks working with Lokgatat Thai Host Gyb to produce mud-bricks, which will be used to build a guest-house. Mud-bricks are a remarkably efficient and incredibly effective building material. These...

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  • Gib + Gin’s Eco Projects

    Gib + Gin’s Eco Projects

    Gib + Ginn provide the building blocks for success from environmental opportunities abound! Seeing someone strive for success in the field of sustainable ecological goals is a common enough sight these days. However one particular environmental warrior is setting the pace for cheap, secure and comfortable housing...

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  • Volunteer Petra helping Isaan Communities

    Volunteer Petra helping Isaan Communities

    Petra Pfann, a volunteer from Austria, joined our nonprofit volunteer organization Mundo Exchange an our Thai Association partner, Laekplian Lokgatat, in Northeast Thailand. Instead of heading to a famous Thai beach or to other tourist attractions in Thailand. Petra decided to volunteer with Mundo Exchange...

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  • Wat Phu Tok

    Wat Phu Tok

    If you head southwest out of Bueng Kan, along Highway 222, you will eventually come to Ban Si Wilai. If you take a left turn there, and continue along the smaller roads past Banna Singh and Baanna Sabaeng, you will eventually reach a rocky outcrop....

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  • Adrian takes on Issan

    Adrian takes on Issan

    In March 2010 Mundo Exchange and the Thai Association, Laekplian Lokgatat, welcomed a new volunteer and intern Adrian. Adrian decided to come to Nong Khai to help with a number of community development and Buddhist projects and to work with Prayoon, one of Lokgatat’s founders...

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  • Culture Club: The Children of Bueng Kan Celebrate Cultures of the World.

    Culture Club: The Children of Bueng Kan Celebrate Cultures of the World.

    During 2009 Lokgatat and Mundo Exchange members, Oum, Nalinrat, Dalyn, Prayoon and volunteers planned the creation of a Thai Cultural Centre where local people could come and learn about their own history and people and about other cultural ways too. In March 2010 the Culture...

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  • Thoughts of Sala Kaew Ku Nong Khai Thailand

    Thoughts of Sala Kaew Ku Nong Khai Thailand

    Mundo Exchange and Laekplian Lokgatat take volunteers and friends to visit many places of interest. We go to homes of elder Thais, visit and learn at Buddhist wats or temples and farming projects and experience other Thai ways throughout Isaan. One particular attraction is the...

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  • Candle Festival

    Candle Festival

    It is the beginning of Buddhist Lent cerebration. Various institutions e.g. schools, collages and universities including public and private organization will craft and organize a colorful candle procession, music and dancing, leading to a temple where the offering of the candle will be made.

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  • The monarchy of Thailand

    60th anniversary of the coronation of The King of Thailand

    King Bhumibol Adulyadej celebrates his 60th year of coronation today. The King, also known as Rama IX by farang, has reigned as monarch since June 9th 1946. Upon the day of his crowning ceremony he was officially wed to Queen Somdej Phra Boromarajini and stated...

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