From akha@loxinfo.co.th Sat Sep 4 04:30:20 1999 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id EAA43592 for ; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 04:30:19 -0700 Received: from chmai.loxinfo.co.th (root@chmai.loxinfo.co.th [203.146.0.65]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.08) with ESMTP id EAA09823; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 04:30:16 -0700 Received: from loxinfo.co.th (loxppp9-chrai1.North.loxinfo.net [203.146.34.9]) by chmai.loxinfo.co.th (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA05176; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 17:13:27 +0700 Message-ID: <37D0F1E8.D1D1F9C@loxinfo.co.th> Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 17:18:20 +0700 From: Matthew McDaniel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 (Macintosh; I; PPC) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: akha@loxinfo.co.th Subject: Akha Weekly Update Sept. 3,99 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Friends: The Akha girl has had her eye removed and has been returned to her families village south east of Fang, Northern Thailand. She was hospitalized 10 days. Thanks for the help in paying the bill for her surgery. This was a very difficult process financially, as there wasn't much warning that we would need to do this surgery. The Book Punch is now finished. This is the last link in the process of building Akha books, until we get moved into an office and purchase a press. Apart from getting into a building and setting up a press, the only other material project we are hoping to accomplish is the purchase of a large truck for hauling well equipment, trees and assistance of other kinds to the villages. We have a donor link page. You can make secure on line donations now to The Akha Heritage Foundation. Please go to the donation link on the welcome page of Akha.com and click on that. You can download a secure server connection from the page that comes up. The swing ceremony is going on in many villages and we will have some photos next week for you from that. Our well project is progressing and we shall soon have a concrete mixing trailer and be going to work on several new wells. On occasion Akha.com can be off line for maintenance. Matthew -- Matthew McDaniel The Akha Heritage Foundation 386/3 Sailom Joi Rd Maesai, Chiangrai, 57130 Thailand Mobile Phone Number: Sometimes hard to reach while in Mountains. 66-01-881-9288 US Address: Donations by check or money order may be sent to: The Akha Heritage Foundation PO BOX 6073 Salem OR 97304 USA Donations by direct banking can be transferred to: (Preferred) Wells Fargo Bank Akha Heritage Foundation Acc. # 0081-889693 Keizer Branch # 1842 04 4990 N. River Road. Keizer, Oregon, 97303 USA ABA # 121000248 Or In Thailand: Matthew Duncan McDaniel Acc. # 3980240778 Bangkok Bank Ltd. Maesai Branch Thailand Web Site: http://www.akha.com mailto:akha@loxinfo.co.th Discussion Groups: akha@onelist.com indigenousworld@onelist.com .