Starting Over

Boats are still stranded on shore two months after the tsunami hit Thailand's southwest. Over seven hundred locals have been set up in temporary shelters on the mainland in and around Krabi. Tourists/volunteers like us are helping to change the tide for these devastated communities that typically thrive off of tourism as their main source of income. Recently the Star Tribune newspaper featured Thailand in an article of the Travel section where the US state department made a statement that the island of Phi Phi had no accommodations at this point in time and would not be hosting tourists any time soon. That's news to us, especially since we just returned from a stay there. For information on how to donate money, view rebuilding projects in action, or personally help on Phi Phi Island, visit this website: www.hiphiphi.com