MAECHAEM UPDATE: A NEW WING FOR THE CHILDREN'S DORMITORY
Project Win brings together village elders, university students and other volunteers, and people who could use some help helping themselves. Just as needed are the generous donors from Thailand and beyond who help with money and materials. Volunteers arrive from Chiang Mai, about three hours away. This time 53 Maejo students came rumbling into Mae Vak in two big army trucks, ready to build an addition to the children's dormitory. Mae Vak has a good school and children come from distant mountain villages to attend. Many have to stay a week or more at a time and they need a place to sleep. Under the direction of village elders Project Win has been working on dorms, building bunks and gathering blankets and mosquito netting. This trip was to add a wing where the kids could store their belongings. Even with over 50 volunteers, it was a big job to complete in two days and they worked well past sundown. Volunteers and villagers put up the concrete posts, laid a