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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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  • Bai Sri Soo Kwan

    Bai Sri Soo Kwan

    In many villages and small towns in Isaan Thailand Bai Sri Su Kwan is a welcoming ceremony. Some of our Thai hosts participate in Bai Sii when they have someone important, like a volunteer, comes to visit or leave them, when a good friend or relative gets married or becomes a monk and during other [...]

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  • Yam Yosothon 2

    Yam Yosothon 2

    I had the pleasure of going out with some friends to see a Thai movie in a cinema theatre last evening and thought I’d share my thoughts about the experience. This particular cinema was hundreds of miles away from Nang Khai in both location and plushness as it was in the largely tourist resort area [...]

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  • My experience with a great NGO in Guatemala

    My experience with a great NGO in Guatemala

    I have had the delight of working with an excellent NGO in Chajul, Guatemala by the name of Limitless Horizons Ixil. This is a wonderful group of people from both the town of Chajul (whose first high school student graduated only in 1999) and the United States whose mission is to support  Middle school age yoputh  [...]

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  • Yoon Became a Monk.

    Yoon Became a Monk.

    One of our friends, Yoon or Prayoon, decided to become a monk for short time at the small temple in his village. He said it’s very special thing that he could do for his parents. At the bottom of this post you can see a video he made about the experience. We and volunteers went [...]

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  • Festive cheer from Mundo team.

    Festive cheer from Mundo team.

    Greetings to everyone from Nong Khai. It has been a turmoilous year here at Mundo Exchange.  We’ve had many projects spanning across many areas of need, a lot of good hearted volunteers dedicated to improving the quality of life for the people involved in their placements and a massive level of dialogue with the people of Thailand which [...]

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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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  • Links to other organisations

    Links to other organisations

    There are many good willed organisations throughout the world some of which we work with on specific projects and others we just think are magical and should be talked about and shared with everyone. Below are links to both organisations similar to ourselves and organisations that inspire change and critical thinking skills. Please feel free to suggest [...]

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  • World Aids day – Is there a future in sight?

    World Aids day – Is there a future in sight?

    The risks to people from HIV and AIDS are known the world over but are proper preventative measures being taken in the Developing South to curb the rate of infection amongst its populace? Clinical trails were carried out on over 16,000 non-infected Thai volunteers over 3 years on a combination of 2 vaccines with questionable findings. 51 of the volunteers became [...]

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