Dear Friends: Â We only have $900 left to raise for the Akha bus, its been a long journey, no doubt. Â If you haven't had the chance to become part of this...
Dear Friends: Â We have the bus for the Akha Ride for Freedom. Â Right now we got a LOT of work to do. Â Painting, Replace Tires, New Batteries. Â But this...
Dear Friends: Â We are doing repairs and updates on the BUS. We cleaned it and dived into maintenance on the generator. We have a couple repairs there to do...
Dear Friends: Â Australian author Harry Nicolaides has been arrested for Lese Majeste in Thailand for writing the book Verisimilitude in 2005 which he...
Dear Friends:  The time has come to paint the bus. We have been given a really good rate by paint suppliers and a painting company.  We still have $400...
Dear Friends: Â We are just shy $200 of having the bus painted, thanks to one donor. Â We are really excited at this turning point. Â Matthew McDaniel The...
Dear Friends: Â The painting on the bus is finished and it is quite sparkling. Â We will be picking it up tomorrow morning. Â We have to wait a couple weeks...
Dear Friends: Â In one week the bus will be ready for signs, the paint secure. We continue to do all our own repairs on the bus. Yet we need four RV batteries...
Dear Friends: Â With the donation of one organization we now only have three batteries left to purchase for the bus. $311 each. Soon we can put the signs on...
Dear Friends: Â With our second donor we now have two batteries and have only two more to go. $311.00 each, and we thank you so much for your help. Â Signs...
Dear Friends: Â Thanks to a number of donors, to whom we are grateful, all the batteries are now purchased and the bus electrical system is back on line. Â ...
Dear Friends: Â I replaced the generator battery tonight, the bus signs are about to get edited for the last time and we are headed for the start line. Â Bus...
Dear Friends: Â As we get close to getting the stickers put on the bus, gather together one apple notebook for processing videos to the web we are looking for...
Dear Friends:  Thanks to good donors, the Bus now has all its signs.  Look here: http://www.akha.org or here: Http://www.akha.org/content/bus/index.html  ...
Dear Friends: Â We work now to do the last mechanical on the bus, install a furnace. Â We are soon wrapping up and pulling together all the events for as...
Dear Friends: Â You can join us at Facebook.com at this link. We want to ask you to join our group the Akha Heritage Foundation. Â We look forward to seeing...
Dear Friends: More than a week of freeze and snow in Salem, Oregon has taken its toll. Work doesn't happen, which is what supports most of this project, and...
Dear Friends: Â The video documentary about the Akha of Thailand and Laos, and their treatment at the hand of fundamentalist mission organizations, can now be...
Dear Friends: Â Final Call - Ride for Freedom Jan. 15, 2009 We have stable bills to pay and then we leave, in days, in this month, for the US Coast at Lincoln...
Dear Friends: I am currently loading three movies to youtube.com/akhazauh The first is Akha TV 9, Commentary on Prisoners of a White God. The second is Akha TV...
Dear Friends: It looks like we have a driver who will be joining us soon. We are really looking forward to that. Right now we need your help to wrap up our...
Dear Friends: We have a driver. Kaely has joined us for the Ride for Freedom and has settled in behind the wheel. We are glad to have her on board. ...
Dear Friends: Â We are hoping to be out within a week, to beat the weather. Â We have gotten our vet check, vaccines, and travel papers arranged. We have...
Dear Friends: Well, after training a driver for a month, keeping her well fed, she up and quit. So we look again. Least she got free truck driving school. ...
Dear Friends: Within a day or two days we will be heading out on the start of our ride. Our driver quit after training so we are looking for a new driver. But...
Dear Friends: We have started our "Ride for Freedom" to the UN. We are on day 7. You can see videos from each day at www.akha.org Thanks to all the people who...
Dear Friends: Visit the videos at www.akha.org We have really stirred it up in Eugene, Oregon about this Richard P. Haugland guy taking away small Akha girls...
Dear Friends: We are headed into our 17th day in our Ride for Freedom. People have been real good to us as we travel. We are currently in Roseburg, Oregon. We...