by Kayla Hughes | Oct 26, 2022 | Culture and Community, From the Field, Thailand, Uncategorized, Volunteer, Volunteer testimonial
The following is a firsthand account from Annie, one of our volunteers who joined us in 2010. She spent a month in the village with a local family while co-teaching alongside the Thai English teacher at one of the rural schools in the area. When I volunteered in...
by Kayla Hughes | Oct 17, 2022 | Culture and Community, Thailand, Uncategorized, Volunteer
The following post about music in Isaan was written by Linda Danielson, a musician, avid music lover, volunteer and close friend of Mundo Exchange: I’m in Thailand for the first time as a Mundo Exchange and Laekplian Lokgatat volunteer, a traveller, a musician, an...
by Kayla Hughes | Oct 10, 2022 | Culture and Community, Thailand, Uncategorized, Volunteer
The following is from Candace, a volunteer of Mundo Exchange and our partner organization. She was a wonderful addition to the Mundo team during her time here and spent time at a wat learning about Buddhist ways. Many tourists making the sojourn to Asia probably plan...
by Kayla Hughes | Oct 6, 2022 | Education, Guatemala, News and Updates, Thailand, Uncategorized
In this sometimes crazy world we think most can agree that there are certain basic human rights that in a civilized world all are entitled to. The following Human Rights Declaration was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, December 10, 1948. Although this...
by Kayla Hughes | Oct 5, 2022 | Education, Thailand, Uncategorized, Volunteer
Books and Information on All Things Thai (*the throwback edition!) *as some of you may remember, our website used to look quite a bit different. Due to a poorly executed changeover of servers we unfortunately lost a lot of that data and information, but this post from...
by Kayla Hughes | Aug 18, 2022 | Adopt an Elder, Thailand, Uncategorized
These high risk elders are in need of just a little more funding. The elders in our Adopt an Elder program in Thailand are living in abject poverty. Most of them are either completely isolated or shouldering the overwhelming task of being the primary caregiver to...