Tag: Backpacking

  • KARE Volunteers Delighting Students at MRM Jr. College2

    December is a lucky month for the students of Mae Ra Moe Jr. College and it will be a memory for a lifetime for volunteers Sorcha and Tara. Sorcha is from Scotland and Tara’s from the Caribbean (Antigua) and the UK. The students are learning plenty of world geography just by discovering where their volunteer…

  • Interactive teaching activities at Mae Ra Moe refugee camp

    Ally O’Brien, Lead, Volunteer Program & Educator for Project KARE-Australia tapping into her creative side while teaching grades 11 and 12 at Mae Ra Moe Refugee Camp in Dec. 2016. Ally O’Brien teaching grades 11 and 12 at Mae Ra Moe Refugee Camp 2016.

  • Women pals in Paw Say Pu, Karen State

    We met these two women buddies in Paw Say Pu (Money Flower Hole) just across the river from Day Bu Noh village in Karen State in Burma (Myanmar). They were clearly amused to meet a white foreigner and they had a lot of fun trying to convince me to try betel nut. Photo: R. Levis, Project KARE,…

  • “I sure will miss this place” … Carla, volunteer at Mae Ra Moe

    I sure will miss this place. We need more time next time…. Carla Fuller, her daughter Megan Fuller, and friend Lee Chaudoin, taught English at Mae Ra Moe refugee camp in May 2016. Seen here with Saw August John, Principal at High School No. (1). Carla also taught resettlement classes, to help guide some Mae…