Volunteer Vacation Testimonials

What do I like best about the trip? Here are my top three. In order: 1. The Kids 2. The Kids 3. The Kids, and an Honorable mention: cold beer at night! I’m sort of at the stage now where I’m like a relative who visits once a year. We have a grand time together! The time I ate bugs and survived an earthquake. It doesn’t get much more immersive than that! It's always an adventure in dining. I got fried red ant eggs and monkey stew. Breakfast was the same filling buffet every day. And good coffee! You don’t expect barista coffee in the middle of nowhere. But they have it! One day, we went to the Thai version of a water park. The Bing River has cabanas, amazing concessions, inner tubes to float on, and cold drinks. And I was the only foreigner there. I had so much fun! Then, one day, we visited a street market at the Myanmar border. Thousands of people. No Westerners except us! A great experience!

Don Germaise
March 2025
Thailand Hill Tribes

I just wanted to send you a quick note to let you know how much we enjoyed our Globe Aware trip to the Thailand Hill Tribes program last month. It was very well organized, we felt that the work projects were meaningful, we had ample time for excursions and sightseeing, the lodging and food were all great. It may have been our best Globe Aware trip yet. We really appreciate you and all that you do. We always look forward to our Globe Aware trips and all the experiences we have and memories that we make on those adventures.

In case you are interested, here is a blog post that we recently wrote about the trip: https://www.faithfulparent.org/blog/thanksgiving-in-thailand-a-family-adventure-in-serving-together

Thank you again for making this experience possible for us. We are already thinking about where we might want to go next year. Have a blessed week!- Derek Weichel, November 2024 Thailand Hill Tribes

Thank you so much for such an incredible trip! This was one of our family's favorite trips, and these volunteer trips have been such a blessing to our family! We really felt immersed in the culture and we got a very good picture of what life is like and what is important to the people there. Our coordinators were great and did a great job of communicating. It was so impactful to hear about the work they were doing there and to meet the children and people who live there. We helped at the local school, and we were also able to build a chicken coop and see the chickens in the coop before we left the program. It was one of our best Globe Aware trips!- Derek and Amy Weichel, November 2024 Thailand Hill Tribes