Travel with Conscience

Thailand Projects

Elephant Nature Park - Visit the Elephant Nature Park and learn how “Lek” has dedicated her life to rescuing and caring for Thailand’s abused and suffering elephants. Her work is internationally recognized and culminated in her being awarded Time Magazine’s Hero of Asia last year. This park is a true beacon of conservation with respect to these precious animals, as well playing an active role in protecting the environment and heritage of the region.

Local Orphanage/Temple - Your guide will take you to a special Buddhist temple located on the outskirts of Chiang Mai. The temple doubles as an orphanage and school for some 400 ethnic minority orphans from the Northern Provinces most of whom have lost parents to poverty, aids, war or political persecution.

Viengping Children's Home - Viengping is a home for all orphaned children in the northern region before being streamlined in 1997 to cater for babies and children up to the age of 18 years. The home also caters for those children who are HIV positive from birth and for those children orphaned as a result of the deaths of AIDS infected parents. Viengping was the first such orphanage in the country to take in HIV children and as a result, accepted children from across the country. While funded partly by the government their needs range from furniture, to bathroom and playground facilities, to building maintenance problems.