Photos from clinic and mobile clinic

Faces of the kids at the Akha Youth Development Center

One of our favorite parts of living where we do is being able to interact and spend time with the kids at the Akha Youth Development Center. Learning the language is giving us more and more of an ability to connect with the kids beyond just spending time with them, and we are very grateful for this. Each child at the center has a very unique story as to why they are living here, and in another blog post I would love to share some of those, but for today I am just going to post some photos of them.

Doi Chang Coffee

We headed up to visit the Akha Village that our favorite coffee here in Thailand comes from. Doi Chang Coffee is the cafe that we frequent for internet access, and is also some of the best coffee I have ever had.  We were able to learn more about the various processes that coffee must go through before being poured into a mug for drinking, and it was really fascinating.  Here are some photos of our time there...please note Rusty's face on the last picture.

Oolong 12 Green Tea

Where we live at the Akha Youth Development Center is a large tea field of Oolong 12 organic green tea. 

On Saturdays you will often see students from the center picking tea leaves to earn extra spending money, or their parents coming to help contribute to the center. I have picked with the villagers before and was slightly horrified at how slow I was compared to the rest of them. I tried my best to keep up, but was clearly inexperienced. Rusty took these photos 2 weeks or so ago.