Baan Kaao Chakan

We traveled with our principal about two hours from our village to look at furniture. We wrote a proposal for funding a Community Education Resource Center and many of our family members and friends donated enough money to actually make it happen. The center will provide information about HIV/AIDS, job opportunities, and resources to learn English (books and computers). On the way, we stopped at a village (Baan Kaao Chakan) that is located next to a mountain that serves as a reserve for monkeys. Before Thailand became the world's leading exporter of rice, the countryside use to have a lot of wildlife until deforestation removed their habitats. Some of these reserves remain home for monkeys, tigers, and elephants. An interesting observation: you have to be careful when walking under the trees because the monkeys will fight and cause the loser to fall to the ground with a loud thump.