The Vernon Journal

those of you who have heard about the unrest / state of emergency in Thailand, please know that it is neither affecting us or our work here in Northern Thailand. We have no desire to comment on all the goings on – you are welcome to get all the information about what is going on [...]

We have had (and will have) visitors and teams from all over the world in these months from July to September. We’ve had doctors from Singapore and Germany who offered their expertise in free Akha village clinics. We’ve had an old Colorado friend who now lives in Scotland come through for a few days. We [...]

While I’m stuck in meetings discussing the new Akha orthography (actually, a really cool experience that I will fill you all in more on later) Lori is much more literally stuck in Mae Salong with a broken vehicle. You heard it right, our truck is broken again. A very similar problem to all our other [...]

For the past week a dental team from America has been visiting Akha Outreach Foundation doing the annual check-ups and cleanings for all the orphans. While this is quite a large task in itself, they still made time to haul all thier equipment up to a village for a day to pull some teeth. Preventative [...]