Our Family

My wife and I

My trips to the UN to publicize the situation of the Akha

At the UNOHCHR in Geneva

The second Akha Journal

We have now been working with the Akha for 15 years.My wife and I have been working together for six years. We also raise four small children. My wife is traditional Akha.

We now live in Vientiane Laos since I can not return to Thailand and the US government still has not issued her a visa. Her first visa was delayed for seven months for "security reasons".

We are in exile from two countries, her's and mine.

The US government will not admit it, but they have targeted us for publicizing the killings of her people and the removal of Akha children by US missions.

Pictures of Akha people killed near my wife's village.

http://www.akha.org/content-467.html

The UN Report we filed in Jan 2004 that documents these killings http://www.akha.org/content-413.html

We continue to monitor and communicate with Akhas about these ongoing human rights situations and Drug War abuses.

We addition we have a number of other projects that we continue to work on.

Travel into the Akha villages to interview villagers and document their situations to the web takes a concerted effort. ;; Many volunteers help with tech support, documentation and publicity efforts.

The Akha Journals such as the one at left which is the second one we publish require computer lay out and offset printing.

Video documentation requires cameras and editing in order to prepare the video for the website.

In 2004-2005 I documented the trafficking of Akha children into Sacramento, California USA. This required an extended stay in the area in order to interview the people who were familiar with this situation. All told I spent about five months on this. I continue to work on this case.

In 2004 and 2005 I went to both New York and Geneva to make presentations before the UN about the Akha situation, following up on the Jan. 4 Human Rights Report to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Category One

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The first one is a corpus of the Akha language. This is to collect every Akha word we can, spelled correctly and with the correct tone marking. The language is the culture is the identity of the Akha people. This is what the missions are working so hard to destroy and rewrite.

We need funding to help pay the editors and writers and also to assemble and publish this material.

2. Our second project is this website, which requires payment and maintenance.

3. Our third project is the publication of other Akha books like the Akha Journal #3, Akha stories, cultural discussions, recitals, songs, ceremonies etc.

Category Two

1. Training and assistance to Akhas for mobilization and documentation of the human rights situation.

2. Malaria reduction, treatment, mosquito nets, etc.

3. Medical care

4. Nutrition

5. Other village needs

Here are other links:

Fundraising Blog

Donations

Your dontations help keep this work moving forward. We must maintain the website, cover transportation costs, film, developing, email expense, phone calls, and meet visa requirements.

Whatever our technical expenses and project tasks, we always address immediate needs of the Akha in the communities we work with. This includes efforts in medical, first aid, mosquito nets, nutrition, vitamins, village water supply and farming. This is part of the expenses we expect.

You may be a one time donor, contribute for a specific project, or make a monthly donation which ads to the stability of our project.

Our personal expenses and overhead are low, which allows us to deliver the most to projects which benefit the Akha.

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