After our trip to Thailand and our stay with the Akha we come back with the satisfaction of having fulfilled all the goals we set out before leaving.

The projects from our counterpart

We have seen firsthand the development of various projects of our counterpart AFECT.




We visited the centers in which children are living so they can go to school and we were told about their financial difficulties to continue working.




They explained to us the project to provide women of several villages with materials and tools for making clothes, bags and other handicrafts. We could see a small sample of what they can do now in one of the villages.

And we saw also an emerging sustainability project about building more stable and durable houses through the use of hardened clay, in agriculture, by replacing chemical fertilizers by other natural products, and in the kitchen, through the manufacture of stoves for wood that concentrate heat better.

Shared new projects: health system and fair trade coffee

We bring in the portfolio for two major projects for which we will work together and seek funding.

First, we collected the needs to create a health network in villages based on their traditional medicine, which includes knowledge of herbs, physical therapy based in massage and shamanic rituals that are its psychological therapies. All this knowledge must be registered and transmitted to new generations, and traditional healers should be able to work in dignified conditions of work.



Moreover, we have brought several samples of green coffee beans to coffee experts from Barcelona who will certify their quality and potential of marketing in our country. Depending on what they tell us, we want to start a fair trade project with coffee from the Akha, something that for them is essential because the cultivation of coffee is their main source of income and what they get for it in recent years is almost not enough even to continue cultivating it.

Volunteer programs and Eco school

Finally, about the volunteer programs we have achieved a reduction to the volunteers who come from Udutama because the deal will be direct, without middlemen charging a commission.



We have also fostered a new program of community-based tourism that involves a week of immersion in the culture of the Akha ecological way of life, learning about their forms of agriculture, their herbs, their flora and fauna, diet, alternative medicine, and a tour around the area, the Golden Triangle, a hot spring or to an elephant camp, all at a very attractive price.



In addition to the still modest supply of funds raised this year for their projects, we have purchased directly from the women of several villages handmade traditional bags. We will give them as gifts to the members of our organization, the old ones and the new ones, until they are finished.

We will try to explain all these projects with more details at the same time that they are devoluping.