Hi friends
From early March to mid April this year Rachel, myself and our little girl Mali will be travelling around Thailand and Cambodia. It’s mainly a holiday, but thanks to some friends at TEAR & Servants, we also have a chance to visit a couple of groups trying to make a difference to in a sustainable way:
1. Mekong Minority Foundation in Northern Thailand (in and around Chiang Rai & Nan provinces, http://minorityleadership.org/). These guys ‘aims to equip, train and empower marginalised people to develop sustainable solutions to the complex problems that impact their communities. Due to globalisation and modernization, tribal communities are facing unprecedented issues of poverty, transmigration, trafficking and exploitation, debt and environmental destruction’
Can you find where we're gonna be, Mali? 
2. TASK (http://www.task.org.kh/). They work in ‘Mean Chey District, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, which is one of the poorest Districts in Phnom Penh. It has a population of about 200,000 people. The majority of these people are Khmer, some Vietnamese, and a minority of Cham (Khmer Muslim). TASK works with approximately 2500 people per month through a range of integrated health and development projects’
I would really appreciate your thoughts & prayers for us over the next 6 weeks as we travel on planes, trains, buses, taxis & tuk-tuks. More importantly I hope we will learn more about these places and people, and the projects that are empowering them to look after their families & communities for the long run, and how we might be able to partner with them in the future.
You are our friends, and I value your input in our lives. Whether you are agnostic, atheist, christian, buddhist, liberal, conservative, reformed, socialist, capitalist, charismatic, catholic, orthodox, emergent, evangelical, anglican, presbyterian, anarchist, green, labour, muslim, hindu, jewish, single parent, rich, poor, gay, lesbian, hetero, metro, emo, normal, weird, black, white, yellow, red, brown, aussie, indigenous, .. you are our friends, and I appreciate you sparing a thought or saying a prayer for us.
Thanks heaps & hope to catch up soonish!
Peter
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