Now – I am not what you call Paul Bunyan, manual labor kind of guy, not unless running from tuk tuks on a daily basis and lifting Christmas trees during the holidays count as labor intensive. No sir. And truth be told, I am more than a skeptic when it comes to volunteer organizations, as if you have spent anytime …
Ho Ho Ho Operation Save Santa is underway
Executive Elf Turner here. Christmas is rapidly approaching and we are deep in the Christmas magic making weeds by trying to figure out how to help as many communities as possible. Last weekend we visited the community of Tuno, a community up in the mountains that is a 2 hour drive from Boracay. My elf army went with the Red …
The Curious Case of Tiger Temple: A Month Long Volunteering Experiment
Deep in Western Thailand, in the forests near the border with Myanmar (Burma), rests a forest monastery, but not just any monastery, Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua, better known as – Tiger Temple. It is a temple that has grown from a simple place of worship by a handful of Buddhist monks who took in a single tiger in 1999, …