Some of our group with kids from the village - aren't they cute?
This is me, Num (the sign says 'Tonkla' in Thai :-)
Once upon a time, there was a small group of people who came together to work on spiritual things. They looked for people that wanted to do little things to help our society and the "Tonkla" was born. This was the beginning of the Tonkla's journey.
In December 2007, we took a long journey to a little hilltribe village in Nan province, a small province in the north of Thailand. We started our journey by bus for 10 hours, then changed to a six-wheel truck that ran along the winding road to the mountains. Higher and higher we went. Then we arrived at a small off-road, the way to the village. From here, we had to walk through the forest, past a waterfall and climbed up to the top of the hill. We walked for about 4 hours and it was a tiring but valuable journey when we reached our destination, Kor Koung village.
We lived at the village for 9 days and built 15 toilets for the villagers. As well as the construction, together with the villagers, we did a lot of activities, i.e. teaching the way to make fertilizer, fixing the tables and chairs in the school, making new blackboards for the children and lighting candles to give tribute to our king.
We got a warm and impressive welcome from the villagers. They arranged the Baysri (a Thai tradition to welcome guests) for us. So, this difficult journey was changed to a good memory and a valuable experience for us.
Really miss you. My Tonkla. Forever...
** "Tonkla" is the name we gave the group who does charity work to help others. A 'Tonkla' is a small plant - so the idea is to plant a small plant and help it grow into a big one.
We lived at the village for 9 days and built 15 toilets for the villagers. As well as the construction, together with the villagers, we did a lot of activities, i.e. teaching the way to make fertilizer, fixing the tables and chairs in the school, making new blackboards for the children and lighting candles to give tribute to our king.We got a warm and impressive welcome from the villagers. They arranged the Baysri (a Thai tradition to welcome guests) for us. So, this difficult journey was changed to a good memory and a valuable experience for us.
Really miss you. My Tonkla. Forever...
** "Tonkla" is the name we gave the group who does charity work to help others. A 'Tonkla' is a small plant - so the idea is to plant a small plant and help it grow into a big one.
2 comments:
What a great story!!
A lot of small seeds come together to become a sprout or a young plant, named TonKla, to make a sacrifice and benefit to groups of people who are disadvantaged and no opportunities (toiletless people) in a faraway country. Although the work seems hard, I feel a lot of fun around there. I hope this story encourages and convinces people to make something useful to social.
I believe - although each of your group separates into their own way of life, there is still some unseen chain among one another. And one day, maybe every one will come back to establish the TonKla project again.
Thank for sharing and Good luck_T
I wanna give you a comment but my English is very bad. Ha ha!
Therefore, I say in short that
I MISS YOU ALL and MISS OUR TONKLA very very much... too much to find any words to explain my feeling!
Hope the Tonklain happy so much and miss me a little bit na.
See you... some day.
-J-
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