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Earlier this month we welcomed one of our larger volunteer and intern groups that we have seen in a while! Consisting of nine volunteers and interns from the UK, United States, and France, the participants took part in our Teaching Programs, Medical Internship and Women’s Empowerment Program. […]

In late December, 2022, we hosted two new volunteers in our programs. They took part in our English Education and Elephant Camp Projects. It’s great to have volunteers and interns back in our programs! Now that Covid travel restrictions are long over, we have seen a good […]

Presenting Chiang Mai Volunteer and Intern Groups #286 and #286. A total of seven volunteers and interns from Spain, the United States, Canada, Belgium, and Mexico. The weather here in Chiang Mai has started to cool off, and dry up some. It was a very wet rainy […]

Presenting Chiang Mai Volunteer Group #288! This was a group of three volunteers from Japan, Canada, and New Zealand coming to take part in our Teaching Monks and Elephant Nursery Volunteer Projects. It was great to have these volunteers in the program! July, 2022 Shimpei Tsunoda, Kanagawa, […]

Presenting Chiang Mai Thailand Volunteer Groups #281 & #282 Two groups of volunteers and interns, totaling eight people from Costa Rica, Australia, Spain, the UK, France, and the United States. It was the first time we had hosted a Medical Intern in more than two years! It’s […]

Chiang Mai, Thailand Volunteer Groups 279 and 280! Chiang Mai Volunteer Group #279. Louise arrived back in June and took part in our Chiang Mai, Thailand Teaching Monks Volunteer Project. She was able to bring her many years of teaching from home to the classrooms of the […]

Presenting Chiang Mai Volunteer Group #278. This group arrived and started their projects in June. Six volunteers and interns from Mexico, the US and a lovely family from the Netherlands. They took part in our Magazine Internship, English Education Program and Elephant Nursery Volunteer Project. It’s good […]

With Thailand re-opening to visitors and world travelers, we are excited to announce the re-opening of volunteering in Thailand. Here at the Friends for Asia Foundation, we are opening our programs in groups. The first programs that are now available for placement are our Chiang Mai based […]

Monday, the 17th of May, 2021 is the official start of the Thailand school year, for most schools throughout the kingdom. Although most schools planned to start, and continue indefinitely online, with Covid cluster outbreaks in different areas of the country, the government just announced yesterday, the […]