Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Hands Centre in Fang


On Wednesday, we headed up to Fang to visit the children's centre that is run by the Hands charity. Jeff had previously done lots of volunteer work here on a number of occasions so it was great to visit.

One of the things that the centre is doing is farming vegetable and pigs and fish in order to feed the kids. Here are a couple of very tasty looking porcine pigs:

Here is a picture of Jeff hanging out with a very hot looking canine dog:

Upon our arrival, we were told that some help was needed; the kids had been playing football next to one of the building and the impact of a football on the walls was causing damage to the paintwork. We attempted, together with one of the guys who lives at the centre, to contruct some nets to give the building some protection. Here is  our first effort:

The next day, we did a slightly a slightly better job:

The good news is that the nets really did seem to help protect the building from flying footballs. Time will tell if they actually last, though. And I should add that Jeff and I shouldn't really take that much credit for their creation in any case; the guy from the centre who "helped" us turned out to be a lot more skilled than us Farang types and did most of the good bits :-)

One thing that massively surprised me is that the centre is in the middle of an oil field, being situated above the richest deposits of oil in northern Thailand. Here is a picture of one of the pumping units:

A more common activity in the area is rice farming. This field has already been used to grow rice this year. The guys in the picture are now planting onions and garlic:


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