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ONE HUNDRED AND ONE NEW BABIES

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P roject WIN has been working in the beautiful Hmong village of Khun Sab. The road from Chiang Mai is steep and scary so it takes two hours to get there. Project Protein is in the early stages, as Mae Vak and Khun Lao were a couple of years ago.  Volunteers have already built and established the concrete fishpond with 1000 baby fish there, thanks to the British Women of Bangkok. Those fish are now six times their original size and they'll will be ready for harvest early next year. As in other villages, fish are the first of the new project components.  Last weekend brought a small crew to Khun Sab to rebuild a big and badly deteriorating chicken house. Volunteers from Maejo worked all day doing carpentry and electrical work to make the place ready for the 101 baby chicks they brought.  Thanks to generous friends who bought supplies and vendors who helped, they had everything they needed to start: plenty of chicken feed, feeders, watering tank, and lights that double