Central Vietnam – Quang Binh and Quang Tri provinces
I have recently returned from a trip to Vietnam where I accompanied Stephanie Guyer-Stevens from Outer Voices whose aim was to record a radio documentary on the so called “Asian food crisis”, which has been ripping through the continent recently. We were there with staff from a Vietnamese NGO, SPERI, Social Policy Ecological Research Institute.
To read more about this trip as reported by Stephanie Guyer-Stevens, you can visit the ‘Untold Stories’ section of the Pulizter Center on Crisis reporting.
More Clown Eckie in Mae Sot
Following on from his previous show at BHSOH (Boarding High School for Orphangs and Helpless Youths), Clown Eckie, the ‘only’ British professional clown in Thailand, performed for the children at Mala Young and Panoki Nursery School.
Some of the children at the nursery school were recently arrived from Burma and previously had no or little contact with foreigners – let alone a white person wearing large shoes, brightly coloured clothes, a wig, a hat, and a painted face. Needless to say, the reception was somewhat mixed as can be seen by the images below!
