Thanks to the generous support from the Rotary Club of Whitby Sunrise, we have completed about 90% of the project to bring water to the village. As mentioned one of my previous posts, just trekking …
We finally have pictures of all 17 primary school student, sponsored by some really generous people. Three days before classes started in August/September last year was the deadline for the students…
The last three weeks has been a race against time. I had been trying to get the projects to the stage where I felt comfortable leaving them. With the exception of one project, they are all 70% fin…
After some stressful situations, I am thrilled that 7 projects are well underway. In fact more materials will be ordered today and delivered tomorrow to the projects. I had hoped to go myself but …
Lights….Camera…..oh wait! Ok, Lights……Camera…wait a second. OK, Lights…Camera…Action! After several false starts, we finally managed to get all of the 7…
As we close out another year I look back at our accomplishments and also things that didn’t go quite as planned…perhaps review the things that could have been done just a little better. …
It is hard to believe that I am almost caught up with my blog entries!!! We returned to Had Chanh to revisit friends, discuss some minor updates to the school and to discuss the build of permanent t…
This trip was perhaps one of the most spectacular ones I have been on where trekking wasn’t involved. From Nong Khiaw it was another 2 hours driving along the top of the mountains following th…
Shortly after the Rotarian visit, Mike, Roland from Toronto and Art from North Carolina came for a visit – they will be here until the end of the month but we didn’t waste any time. We h…
The day we came to officially open the primary school in Done Lom Village, there was a birth in the village. I had not idea at the time but as we were leaving the village to head back to the boats, …
We were all a little surprised to be taken to the cave where the Governor hid during the Vietnam war – located just a few minutes outside Nong Khiaw. We don’t know if it was a District G…
It was with great pleasure we welcomed the Rotarians from Toronto Canada after their sweat equity trip in Cambodia with dear friend and Rotarian Lisa McCoy. I think they managed to find a new defini…
