stories Archive

  • The following story reveals how fantastic and giving students and staff from Bewegte School in Austria. Together they helped Thai children by raising fund for needed school supplies, shoes, clothing, and bicycles. Petra Pfann, a Mundo Exchange volunteer, collaborated with the Bewegte staff and students to collect money for children in Isaan Thailand who Petra [...]

    Bewegte Students and Volunteer Petra help Thai Students

    The following story reveals how fantastic and giving students and staff from Bewegte School in Austria. Together they helped Thai children by raising fund for needed school supplies, shoes, clothing, and bicycles. Petra Pfann, a Mundo Exchange volunteer, collaborated with the Bewegte staff and students to collect money for children in Isaan Thailand who Petra [...]

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Volunteering with Mundo Exchange and Laekplian Lokgatat is a great experience for children who have the opportunity to work with retired volunteers. With age, often comes an increase of understanding and empathy based on past experiences and exchanges. People like Marta offer children and young volunteers knowledge and laughter that can only come when diversity [...]

    Field Notes from an exceptional retired traveler and volunteer, Marta Kogler

    Volunteering with Mundo Exchange and Laekplian Lokgatat is a great experience for children who have the opportunity to work with retired volunteers. With age, often comes an increase of understanding and empathy based on past experiences and exchanges. People like Marta offer children and young volunteers knowledge and laughter that can only come when diversity [...]

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  • MONKEY BOY, MY THAI STUDENT FRIEND
VOLUNTEER STORY
This Thai student is 10 years old. Everyday after volunteering at school we would drive him out to the rice fields, where he works to help support his Thai family. Because of the amount of hard physical work my young Thai friend must do on a daily basis, he [...]

    Volunteer Kindness brings change

    MONKEY BOY, MY THAI STUDENT FRIEND VOLUNTEER STORY This Thai student is 10 years old. Everyday after volunteering at school we would drive him out to the rice fields, where he works to help support his Thai family. Because of the amount of hard physical work my young Thai friend must do on a daily basis, he [...]

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  • Books and Information on All Things Thai
Mundo Exchange volunteers and interns in Thailand have created a list of books and reading about Thailand and Thai culture. Some of the works included are fiction, others are about history, the arts, and the cultural ways of this Thai society. Travelers, tourists and armchair anthropologists may enjoy some [...]

    Books & Readings for Thailand Volunteers and Travelers

    Books and Information on All Things Thai Mundo Exchange volunteers and interns in Thailand have created a list of books and reading about Thailand and Thai culture. Some of the works included are fiction, others are about history, the arts, and the cultural ways of this Thai society. Travelers, tourists and armchair anthropologists may enjoy some [...]

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  • The ancient Celtic practise of celebrating New Year Photo by Calum Hutchinson (CC-BY-SA-2.5)
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 [...]

    Happy Beltaine 2010

    The ancient Celtic practise of celebrating New Year Photo by Calum Hutchinson (CC-BY-SA-2.5) 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 [...]

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  • In order to keep everyone outside of Thailand informed we have included information from the Tourism Authority of Thailand here to allow others to follow the story of the protest as it develops.
Please understand that this has been a peaceful protest so far and is expected to continue to be until it comes to its [...]

    Political protests update 15/03/2010

    In order to keep everyone outside of Thailand informed we have included information from the Tourism Authority of Thailand here to allow others to follow the story of the protest as it develops. Please understand that this has been a peaceful protest so far and is expected to continue to be until it comes to its [...]

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  • 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 [...]

    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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  • Mundo Exchange Is back on track with a swinging new website.
Here is Nolinrat & Dalyn to give you a brief update on what we’re up to.

As you can see we are still having sanuk and working mahk mahk up in Issan getting our culture centre up and running.
We’ll be updating more often and wanting you [...]

    Mundo Exchange – Doing charitable work in Thailand, Guatamala and the Dominican Republic

    Mundo Exchange Is back on track with a swinging new website. Here is Nolinrat & Dalyn to give you a brief update on what we’re up to. As you can see we are still having sanuk and working mahk mahk up in Issan getting our culture centre up and running. We’ll be updating more often and wanting you [...]

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