We get up early to take what will be our penultimate Chinese bus to Mengla. It’s still a long ride down, but when we finally reach the border town of Mohan, and are in sight of the border post, we high-five like two Elvisses leaving the building. However, the border is “closed” after five o’clock, …
Early morning we move to yet another town called Jinchang. We hope to get back to the main trail heading south towards the Laos-border. The road is beautiful again, and induces appetite for more.
We try to hitchhike here, but my stuck-out thumb is either not understood or all the drivers on the supposed main royal …
Windows of Yuanyang is a community shop selling handicraft run by the large Christian NGO World Vision. They cannot accept donations of any kind, because of the system the big host ngo imposes on them. I perfectly understand the need to eredicate corruption, but I simply can’t deny that I feel the unnecessary burden of …
Windows of Yuanyang is a community shop selling handicraft run by the large Christian NGO World Vision. They cannot accept donations of any kind, because of the system the big host ngo imposes on them. I perfectly understand the need to eredicate corruption, but I simply can’t deny that I feel the unnecessary burden of …
We still try to do something here in Kunming, but things don’t get easier overnight. Sadly, the experience of organizations hanging up the phone, or offices hidden in some impossible to find backstreet remains associated to China non-governmental organizations. But of course! The government is doing everything here. We’ve learned that in Chengdu and wonder …
We still try to do something here in Kunming, but things don’t get easier overnight. Sadly, the experience of organizations hanging up the phone, or offices hidden in some impossible to find backstreet remains associated to China non-governmental organizations. But of course! The government is doing everything here. We’ve learned that in Chengdu and wonder …
Bangkok, Thailand. June 22nd, 2010We spend Earth Day planting mangroves at the Khlong Pittayalongkorn School. With a small team of volunteers we give 350 saplings their place in the muddy waters south of Bangkok. The mangrove coast is home to a unique ecosystem that would perish if the trees disappeared.
Name:Freeland Foundation, Bangkok, …
KNGO CambodiaBatambang, Cambodia. June 17th – 20th, 2010
KNGO provides vocational training (computer skills and English) to underprivileged children in Battambang, Cambodia.
We work with KNGO in June 2010. Our activities include
decorating the centerdonating stationary and libary books
NameKhmer New Generation Organization, Battambang, CambodiaAimTo support poor children getting a better chance in …
Sao Sary FoundationKampong Speu, Cambodia. June 16th – 18th, 2010SSF (Sao Sary Foundation)’s mission is to “to identify at risk children and provide sustainable assistance to both the children and their families”
We do some workshops with the children and support three poor families buying them cows for sustainable income generation.
NameSao …
Saigon’s Children CharityHo Chi Minh City, Vietnam. June 15th, 2010SCC supports children of empoverished families with a scholarschip program and cooperates with a number of local schools in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
We support three children and do some interesting labor at a school in the city: we clean up schoolbooks with erasers …
COPE Laos, VientianeVientiane, Laos. June 2nd, 2010We visit the good museum at the COPE center and learn about the results of cluster bombs. COPE helps victims of “bombies” that are sadly still prolific in remote areas of Laos, to get a tailor made artificial leg.
We have donated four legs.
NameCOPE Laos, …
Vientiane, Laos. June 3th, 2010Peuan Mit (“strong friends”) in Lao, supports former street children with vocational training. They run a restaurant themselves that serves delicious food.
We donate what we have left of our Lao KIP, following the suggestion of stayanotherday.org.
NamePeuan Mit through stay-another-day.orgAim
to reintegrate the children into their society …
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The guidebooks are right: Kunming is the most relaxed metropolis in China. We hope to encounter better luck in finding small-scale charities here, and gahter a list of phone numbers and addresses. After a while we manage to make an appointment with an ecological ngo called greenwatershed, and we figure out that it is actually …
The guidebooks are right: Kunming is the most relaxed metropolis in China. We hope to encounter better luck in finding small-scale charities here, and gahter a list of phone numbers and addresses. After a while we manage to make an appointment with an ecological ngo called greenwatershed, and we figure out that it is actually …
Kunming is just another metropole, yet decidedly less intense and crowded than Chengdu and, from what we’ve heard, Chongqing. We do what we are good at and sit down in a dark coffee place, waiting for our couchsurfing host, slurping black coffee as we bend over our tiny computer screens.
Julia, our host, works for a …
Kunming is just another metropole, yet decidedly less intense and crowded than Chengdu and, from what we’ve heard, Chongqing. We do what we are good at and sit down in a dark coffee place, waiting for our couchsurfing host, slurping black coffee as we bend over our tiny computer screens.
Julia, our host, works …
The busride through the countryside of southern Sichuan and northern Yunnan, connecting Xichang and Lijang via the Lugu Hu lake, is long but extremely scenic. It takes from 7:40 in the morning until about 10pm to cover the distance of about 300 miles through beautiful hills, mountain passes, and alongside the majestic Lugu Hu. Sitting …
The busride through the countryside of southern Sichuan and northern Yunnan, connecting Xichang and Lijang via the Lugu Hu lake, is long but extremely scenic. It takes from 7:40 in the morning until about 10pm to cover the distance of about 300 miles through beautiful hills, mountain passes, and alongside the majestic Lugu Hu. Sitting …
We are stuck in Xichang and tackle a rainy afternoon writing in a strange upper class restaurant, taking in only one shared latte for economical reasons. It’s a strange place and we can imagine many a Chinese businessman coming here to show off his spendthrift to the members of his class. It stops raining later …
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