Volunteer program

All That Is Not Given Is Lost

This volunteer program offers you a safe, meaningful, fun and low cost way to experience hill-tribe culture whilst doing something that counts. Working alongside Dr David, you will travel from village to village in the remote hill-tribes of two sub-districts of Chiang Rai in Northern Thailand, assisting him whilst he gives medical advice and treatment.

You will get to experience the real life of these peoples, eating with the local families and staying in their bamboo huts. Through Dr David’s knowledge of their languages and background, you will get to learn about their local culture and traditions. Mealtimes are a bonus with hoards of villagers gathering to meet you and share their stories.

“I spent 2 months in Thailand and, of all my experiences, this was the most meaningful, interesting and exciting time. Dr David’s work is wonderful and it was great to have been a part of that even for a short while.”(volunteer 05)

Short and long-term volunteer programs can be arranged, offering participants exposure to hill-tribe life and living, as well as a once in a lifetime opportunity to make a difference among those who most need it.

At present we are looking for volunteers who like to give their time, energy, skill and possible donations for the underprivileged human beings who are marginalized by the local people and forgotten by the outside world.

We repeat that we are looking only for people who are willing and are ready to give their time, energy, skill and possible donations for the good cause. Before you go any further we strongly suggest that you go through our website on "about us" and "about hill-tribes of Thailand", so that you have a good knowledge about who we are and the kind of work we are doing as well as the poor human beings we are helping.

It is a must that you go through our website thoroughly because we like to make sure if this is the kind of volunteer work you are searching for and we are also looking for the right volunteer. The right volunteer to us means the right person who is willing to share his or her time, energy, skill and money to those who most need it.

Type of volunteer:

1. Medical professionals ( doctors, nurses, midwife, health social workers )

2. Teachers ( maths, languages, computer, and other subjects )

3. Social workers, carpenters, builders, and agriculturist

4. Camera-man for making documentary film on the young doctor and the hill-tribes

5. Fund-raisers for the poor, underprivileged and marginalized hill-tribes

6. And people who are interested in building up a better place for the hill-tribes

Way of volunteer:

We are working in one particular region or area in Chiang Rai sub-district and it is hilly region and is quite far from the city. There are about 50 hill-tribe villages in the region and at present we are focusing only on those villages in great needs. we move around from village to village as we give free medical treatments and do many other social activities in the village. In each village we set up a bamboo clinic and we normally stay 2-3 days and then move on to another. Most of the time, we move on foot, trekking from village to village on the hills, plain and in the valley as villages locate in different places. The distance between the villages differ 2-10 kilometers.We do the following social work as we move around:

1.Setting up a bamboo clinic in each village, giving free medical treatments

2. Giving assistance to Dr. David in his daily medical social work

3.teaching first aid and health educations to the villagers

4.teaching languages, computers and other subjects to the hill-tribes

5.building toilets, water supply system, classrooms, dining halls, bridges and other necessary things

6.playing games with hill-tribes and clean the villages to be a better place

7.And many other programs that you like to do in order to build up a better place for the poor and unprivileged hill-tribes

8.lastly not least,collecting of donations from friends, families and relatives for the poor and unprivileged hill-tribes

Place of volunteer: 50-100 kilometers away hill-tribe villages on the hills in a sub-district, Chiang Rai, northern part of Thailand

Duration of volunteer: Minimum 1 week – 1 year

Time of volunteer: Any time of the year

Way of transportation: Most of the time we move on foot and only sometime we get a ride on a truck. Once a week we come back to our base, office, which is located in one of the hill-tribe village where there is electricity. It is about 30 kilometers away from the Chiang Rai city. We get free internet access in our base where you can do many stuffs like sending emails to friends, relatives and families for your personal affairs as well as fund-raising purpose.