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Volunteer Thailand, Amy, having a great time with Thai kids.
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 is [...]

    Volunteer Exchanges of Heart: Amy Fry

      Volunteer Thailand, Amy, having a great time with Thai kids. 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 is [...]

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  • Gib provides the building blocks for success from environmental opportunities abound!
Gib's fish farm near Nong Khai
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 in Isaan, Thailand and is hoping to train [...]

    Gib’s Eco Projects with Mundo Exchange

    Gib provides the building blocks for success from environmental opportunities abound! Gib's fish farm near Nong Khai 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 in Isaan, Thailand and is hoping to train [...]

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

    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
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 [...]

    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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  • 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 [...]

    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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  • 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.

    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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  • 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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  • 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 [...]

    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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Nalinrat, Haddie and Takaya visited temple
Haddie has helped greatly at the wat, at the small school, creating cross cultural activities and structures that will help the people of Isaan eventually learn English, computers, and about the similarities and differences between cultures. She is fantastic with a smile, laugh, easy way of getting along with others [...]

    Update on Volunteers

    Nalinrat, Haddie and Takaya visited temple Haddie has helped greatly at the wat, at the small school, creating cross cultural activities and structures that will help the people of Isaan eventually learn English, computers, and about the similarities and differences between cultures. She is fantastic with a smile, laugh, easy way of getting along with others [...]

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A Maya Ixil little girl standing next to the cross reminding all of the Chel massacre, whereby 200 women, children, elderly and infirm were massacred by the Guatemalan army in the early 1980′s


Our friends in Portland recently took a journey with faculty and parents of Catlin Gable School to Chajul in Guatamala.   Mundo has been partnering with Catlin Gable [...]

    Caitlin University stories being compiled

    A Maya Ixil little girl standing next to the cross reminding all of the Chel massacre, whereby 200 women, children, elderly and infirm were massacred by the Guatemalan army in the early 1980′s Our friends in Portland recently took a journey with faculty and parents of Catlin Gable School to Chajul in Guatamala.   Mundo has been partnering with Catlin Gable [...]

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