by Kayla Hughes | Dec 29, 2020 | Adopt an Elder, Covid Care Packages, Thailand, Uncategorized
We walk into the yard of a village home, a patchwork of tin, wood, and bamboo. “Dam” (pronounced dAHm), a member of a small village in Buengkan Province, rises from her bench to greet us. She is a single grandmother raising her three grandchildren. Dam...
by Kayla Hughes | Dec 15, 2020 | Education, Guatemala, Uncategorized
Our student scholarship program in Guatemala has provided kids and young adults an otherwise unavailable opportunity to complete their studies. Many of these past students have returned home to pursue their dream of better serving their communities. A...
by Kayla Hughes | Dec 14, 2020 | Environment, Environmental, From the Field, Guatemala, Uncategorized
Snapshots of the greenhouse in Chajul, Guatemala from start to finish! What a journey! Local leaders in Chajul maintained hope and optimism all the way from the idea of a community greenhouse to the physical creation of it. Your donations, a matching donation from...
by Kayla Hughes | Nov 11, 2020 | Culture and Community, From the Field, Guatemala, News and Updates, Uncategorized
Electricity is something many take for granted, and I’m willing to guess most of us have never really gone without it. Until fairly recently the people of Pal would tell you a different story. Today the village of Pal is home to about 100 familes. During the...
by Kayla Hughes | Nov 3, 2020 | Culture and Community, News and Updates, Thailand, Uncategorized
Starting around June or July and escalating rapidly this past month, there have been mostly student-led protests around the country, primarily in Bangkok. The protestors are primarily calling for Prime Minister Pratuth to step down, re-examine the constitution and...
by Kayla Hughes | Oct 30, 2020 | Adopt an Elder, Health and Wellness, Thailand, Uncategorized
Elders in rural vllages live in conditions that you would not commonly see in western cultures. Not to say one is right and one is wrong, but they are both indeed vastly different from each other. When I close my eyes and think of my grandma, I envision her in her...
