Southeast Asia Service Tour and Retreat

Participants join for as many days as they like.

• Travel to the border of Thailand and Burma to Mae Hong Son Province, Thailand.
• Work and live among the Burmese migrant communities composed of the Kayan La Hwi, Pa-o, Shan, Kayaw (Karinni), and Kayah (Karinni) tribal people, as guests of the elders
• Experience intimately the challenges that Burmese migrants face as they live along the border.
• Make a difference to people who are hungry to improve the conditions of their lives and their communities

Our service work will consist of teaching English, assisting in medical clinics, building school curricula, brainstorming economic development, helping in a nursery for orphans, and lending a loving hand wherever asked. Four villages along the Pai River will be our focus areas. We will make our home at the Friend’s Guest House where we will have the facility to ourselves. There we will have access to great food, laundry service and a loving host.

Costs consist of a flight to Mae Hong Son, Thailand connecting through Bangkok and Chiang Mai. In addition, each guest is responsible for costs of room, food and transportation of less than 25 USD a day. We also ask each participant to donate 500 Euros to one of our projects. We encourage you to raise extra money in your communities to donate.

Nura will provide regular classes at no charge.

Families are welcome and children will be safe. Those who wish to extend their trip can travel with Nura to Siem Rep, Cambodia and visit Angkor Watt, one of the great Wonders of the World. Link Hands has a small project near Siem Rep that we will visit.

Suggested reading: Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey by Pascal Khoo Thwe

Contact Nura Loeks at n.loeks@gmail.com or 505-699-3225