Volunteers stories Archive

  • 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 at a small school near the Mekong River, separating [...]

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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. The journey would have taken you through many small [...]

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  • Jane and Geoff Cohn Family Volunteering in Nongkhai

    Jane and Geoff Cohn Family Volunteering in Nongkhai

    We have always wanted to take our family on a volunteering holiday and were extremely fortunate to find the Mundo Exchange and Laekplian Lokgatat volunteer and cultural exchange program which resulted in us volunteering at a boys’ orphanage in Nongkhai, north-eastern Thailand for two weeks. My husband and I and our three daughters, [...]

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  • Volunteer Intern Haddie Lyons

    Volunteer Intern Haddie Lyons

    Intern Haddie helped with our cross cultural global exchange projects, particularly with the cultural centre in Isaan Thailand.

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  • My Isaan Cultural Exchange with Mundo and Lokgatat

    My Isaan Cultural Exchange with Mundo and Lokgatat

    Mundo Exchange My Isaan Cultural Exchange After many hours of travelling deep into the wilderness on the sleeper train from Bangkok, I arrived in Isaan. After a delicious home cooked dinner made by volunteers helping my Thai host, Nalinrat,  I found myself unexpectedly in a traditional Isaan welcoming ceremony. All members of Mundo took turns to tie [...]

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  • Mundo Exchange Volunteer Hugh Plenderleith Returns to Isaan

    Mundo Exchange Volunteer Hugh Plenderleith Returns to Isaan

    Hugh Plenderleith came in 2008 to help with Mundo Exchange and Laekplian Lokgatat global exchange volunteer projects in one of the most economically challenged areas of Thailand. Hugh has become a valuable  friend and cohort to both Thai and Western hosts that help volunteers during their stays in Thailand.  During his first year he was [...]

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  • Sandra Helping Buddhists in Thailand with Mundo Exchange

    Sandra Helping Buddhists in Thailand with Mundo Exchange

    Volunteer Sandra comes to help Mundo Exchange and Laekplian Lokgatat with Buddhists wanting to learn more about other cultures and English communication skills. She participated in various ceremonies and helped many during her stay in Isaan Thailand.

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  • Farang Wedding in Isaan

    Farang Wedding in Isaan

    Our friend Scott who comes to help us, he really likes Isan culture. And he decided to get married in Isaan local style with his girlfriend, Effie, in Bueng Khan, Nongkhai. So we arranged the wedding for him. We invited some old people and friends to come to the ceremony and explained how the ceremony [...]

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  • Mundo Exchange volunteers Terry and Andrea Price return to assist Isaan orphanage

    Mundo Exchange volunteers Terry and Andrea Price return to assist Isaan orphanage

    Sawadee! Volunteers Andrea and Terry Price, from Ireland, returned once again in 2009 to help the orphan boys in Isaan.  This time they not only volunteered at the orphanage for boys but also gave gifts from friends and family to young girl’s living at an orphanage found near Udon Thani.  Volunteers like Terry and Andrea spend part of [...]

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