Project Trang involved a small Phuket-based team of volunteers working with the fisher-folk people on Koh Mook Island in their Tsunami recovery efforts. Kho Mook is a small island off the coast of southern Thailand near Trang, about a 4-hour drive south of Phuket. The Project Trang Team, headed by Pat James and Ben Bester, were all unpaid volunteers who, looking to help Tsunami recovery efforts in some way, discovered this community that was too far from the crisis center of Phuket to be getting the help it needed.

The Project Trang team rose to the occasion with the stated goal to “operate with total transparency and to finish quietly without leaving footprints”. All donations, less minimal operating expenses, went straight through to the projects which included repairing and replacing damaged fishing boats, restoration of drinking water supplies, and school improvement.

ALF’s contribution to Project Trang involved teaming up with World Vision to co-fund a state-of-the-art computer training classroom for the only school on the island. Project Trang has now closed itself, having achieved most of what it set out to do for the people of Kho Mook.

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