The Vernon Journal

Lately I’ve been on a photo kick; something in me is just yearning to be creative! So, despite our less than cooperative camera, I’ve been snapping pictures more often than usual. A couple weeks ago, everything in the village just seemed especially beautiful, so I set out to capture all the little things that I [...]

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 [...]

I know it’s been a while since we posted some pictures, we’ve been having problems with our Olympus camera and one out of every three or four pictures we take is ruined. This, of course, has really frustrated us and so we have been relying heavily on our phones for day to day pictures. The [...]

Do you remember MiBya? She is one of the hard stories in our village. Back in October 2005 we wrote this story: She [Mi Bya] is a particularly tough case, and lives in a difficult home in our village. We never see her smile and although she is intrigued by us “pa la” she usually [...]

The reason we haven’t been updating The Vernon Shutter recently is because we’ve had troubles with our Olympus Camedia C-60 camera these past few months. For a while we had Card Error messages popping up, then our pictures would only show up halfway, now the camera says it can only take one picture (on an [...]