Musar Hill Tribe:
This week was so amazing, as every week is different I swear this one was a life changer. Sasha and Maria from Toys for Thailand were here for their yearly visit and they took me on a great adventure. First let me stat by saying that Toys for Thailand began with bringing 2 bags of toys to the kids that survived the Tsunami and now they help many hill tribe schools and villages. They are helping 6 right now and what they do is help them to be self-sustainable so they can continue to live in the hills but just easier. Now they get them pigs and chickens to raise for sale and eggs, build farms, plant rice and give them rice husking machines, they even plant their own soy and make tofu and soy milk, I hear it taste delicious. And of course they give the kids toys, playground equipment and school supplies. One school is has even started a small barber shop for all the village with their help.
Sasha called me on a Saturday morning and said she wanted to show me a village that she was thinking of helping and I was not going to go since I had an English class to teach and I didn’t want to disappoint the kids. Well Sasha said I really need to see this as it would show me another place where some of the kids come from, I canceled and she picked me up 30 minutes later. We drove about 5 hours away and I got to fill her in on all of the good, bad and ugly that goes on at the WDC. When we arrived to the place where we were to meet someone, they were a no show so we asked someone for directions to this poor school. The guy said, “you want to see poor, go to my wife’s school”. After talking to her we drove another 30 minutes and then had to get in a 4×4 for the next hour, we were really going in the hills. Maria and I were getting bounced around in the back of the pick-up, laughing out of fear the whole way.
We arrived to this beautiful, very simple village were they had never seen white people before, what they must have thought about me with all of my tattoos…LOL. Anyway we pasted out some toys, clothes, soap and shampoo, which they were very happy to get. This village is the village of the Musar Hill Tribe, 200 people in 75 homes, no electricity, no running water and all they have to eat is rice, cabbage and one and a while they shoot something. Sasha told them what she has done to help others and they were so excited we happened upon their village. We told them that they had to do the work but we could help. I fell in love with them so quickly and told them I would be back in February to help them. They said they would give me a good spot on the floor to sleep and they would take good care of me. I am so excited to go and help them, Toys for Thailand is going to help to fund this project along with my friend Sarah Welborn and myself. Look at the pictures of these people, how can you not fall in love? I will keep you posted about everything we do there. Thank you to Sasha and Maria for making me cancel my class and showing me another beautiful place in Thailand and a place in the world that not many get to see…
