Funding a project as follow:
Lodging and food:
Lodging ( home-stay ) is simple in a bamboo hut with a host family in the village. Bed is simple on a bamboo floor.
Volunteers will be split into a group of 2 - 4 to a host family.
Foods are prepared and are served by the host family. Typical hill-tribe foods contain of rice, chicken, fish, meat and vegetables are prepared in a hill-tribe way.
Cost of lodging and food:
200 US$ per volunteer per week ( lodging, food and drinking water )
400 US$ per volunteer per two weeks( lodging, food and drinking water )
600 US$ per volunteer per three weeks( lodging, food and drinking water)
800 US$ per volunteer per four weeks ( lodging, food and drinking water)
Volunteer for free program:
If you want to volunteer for free kindly collect donations from the people, families and relatives for the poor and less fortunate hill-tribes before coming to volunteer with us. The program goes like this: If you can collect donations or raise funds three time more than your weekly expense ( weekly cost for food and lodging ) you shall volunteer for free. But if you raise only two times, you will have to pay half. Check it out below.
Weekly expense Donations collected by volunteer
200 US$ 600 US$ ( 3 times ) - volunteer for free ( food and lodging is free )
400 US$ ( 2 times ) - pay half ( pay half for food and lodging )
400 US$ 1200 US$ ( 3 times ) - volunteer for free ( food and lodging is free )
800 US$ ( 2 times ) - pay half ( pay half for food and lodging )
600 US$ 1800 US$ ( 3 times ) - volunteer for free ( food and lodging is free )
1200 US$ ( 2 times ) - pay half ( pay half for food and lodging )
800 US$ 2400 US$ ( 3 times ) - volunteer for free ( food and lodging is free )
1600 US$ ( 2 times ) - pay half ( pay half for food and lodging )
There was no toilet and running water in the communities when we first came. The villages were in great agony with lots of sickness and deaths. Diarrhea is the main cause especially among children and is from lack of running water and is spread by low sanitation.
When we first set up a mobile clinic in the communities most of the sickness we had seen were sickness related to low sanitation and poor water supply. Among them were the diarrhea that often kill children especially the under nourished ones. Often the children were seen dying in their parent's laps from dehydrations caused by diarrhea.
To reverse this situation in the communities permanently we started meeting the underlying cause through installing toilets and running water besides treating the present sickness. The result is promising and successful as the least sickness we now come across is sickness related to low sanitation and poor water supply.
It means we now come across only 2 or 3 diarrhea cases in villages where toilets and running water installed.
We have installed lots of toilets and running water supplies in many villages, but there are still many more villages that need toilets and running water. And we continue to build them.
Since our source of funding is donations that come from individual and volunteers we ask everyone to take a part in funding a project and collecting donations from the people you know before you come to volunteer. A toilet for a family costs about 200 US$ and there are about 10-70 families in a village. A water supply for a village costs about 500-4000 US$ depending on the distance between a spring and a village. The distance is between 2-7 kilometers apart.
It is our rule that every volunteer fund a project: a toilet for a family or a water supply for a village. No one is allowed to volunteer without funding a project.
Created by Dr. David in 2010
Objective: To promote the health of the hill-tribe communities and help them to live their lives fully through our volunteer work.
All That Is Not Given Is Lost
Vegetarian foods are prepared and served if needed.
A toilet - 200 US$ - can be funded by single or couple volunteer per week
A concrete water-tanks - 500-1,000 US$ - can be funded by a group of volunteers
A whole water supply system - 2,000 - 4,000 US$ - can be funded by a group of volunteers
