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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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  • 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 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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  • Happy Beltaine 2010

    Happy Beltaine 2010

    Beltane (and Beltaine or Bealltainn) is an ancient festival which celebrates the end of the cold and the beginning of the warm. It comes from the ancient peoples of the Celtic Nations and is generally seen as a New Year celebration. Bealtane is a cross-quarter day, marking...

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  • Mundo Resources: Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    Mundo Resources: Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    Universal Declaration of Human Rights READING Education: law, debate, writing, reading for content The following Human Rights Declaration was adopted by the  United Nations General Assembly, December 10, 1948. Although this document is criticized at times it remains an excellent reading and discussion material for advanced English and...

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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....

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  • Twitter notices a surge in compromised accounts

    Twitter notices a surge in compromised accounts

    Freedoms and the responsibilities that come with them can sometimes be considered to be restrictions which imprison us and keep us fearful. This article hopes to converse with those not-so-literate in computer security and set concerns at ease by explaining the simple things we can do to...

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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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  • 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...

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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...

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