This March, 17 students along with Rev. Morishima, Mr. Kanda, and myself, went on the Sigma Society volunteer and study trip to Thailand. What a great trip! For the first couple of days, we stayed in Bangkok, getting oriented to Thai culture, and learning about the plight of children living in slum areas outside the city. We volunteered at a daycare center in one of these slum areas, with the help of Japanese missionary, Rev. Matsushita and his wife.
We then headed up to Chiang Rai, where we worked with Akha Churches in Thailand to build a shelter in a remote village called Hoi Chom Pu. We stayed in the village for three days--eating delicious stuff like rice, mountain veggies and meat from a freshly killed hog (we also ate some other stuff like ant eggs and and various hog "parts"). The Akha people were lovely and were happy to share their lives and culture with us. The shelter/church building project was carried out with generous funding from Soroptimists International, Japan.
We returned to Chiang Mai after this, to visit a number of Christian ministries which offer help to hill tribes peoples: The House of Love and The House of Hope (both AIDS orphanages) and the House of Blessing (a daycare serving underpriviledged hill tribes children). We also had the chance to have a joint class with students studying Japanese at Chiang Mai University.
This two-week trip was a great chance to put KGU's motto "Serve the World" into practice, as well as a great chance to get to know one another better.
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