Go Thai. Go out to help all individuals.

It has been said: “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage”.

I confess to you my friends that for over a year, I suppressed the desire I had to volunteer in Thailand. Good intentions alone accomplish nothing. We naturally long for times of comfort and convenience but our moral fiber, our humanity, can only be measured when we stand in times of challenge and controversy.

As MLK's birthday just passed, I thought about these words of his: “Cowardice asks the question "Is...

Two weeks into the New Year, time to track the progress. I am thankful for the support and donations I have received thus far, a total of $200. A good start but a long way to go; the more that can be raised the longer I can volunteer. The goal is $4000 for two months.

I hope you will be motivated to dedicate some of your time this year volunteering for a charitable organization in your local community. The success of this project and others like it depends upon people willing to unite with a ...

Today is my birthday, this morning I spent about 4hrs helping move a homeless camp from one site to another; they are forced by the city to move every 90 days. It looked like a refugee camp- Be thankful you do not know such hardships as these internally displaced persons. Let’s get out there and do something to help in our communities.

I made a few contacts; I am working hard to make this project successful as possible. There were Christians, Atheist and others joining together for the ...

You got one tiny moment in time for life, how will you use it?

Let’s use this New Year to do meaningful things. I have learned a lot this past year, like there is actually another William Barnes concerned with Thailand, he is a veteran Bangkok-based journalist. I recently read one of his articles in the Asia Times May 22, 2010 called Sifting through Thailand's ashes.

"...Thailand is in a state of shock over the physical damage, political pain and psychological hurt … said one intelligen...

Human Trafficking Worldwide: Thailand

...Traffickers find fertile ground in Thailand’s rugged North, where economic change has wreaked havoc. Many of the tribal residents in this highlands region also do not have Thai citizenship — a fact that leaves them particularly vulnerable to trafficking. In one northern Thai region, Mae Sai, 70 percent of the 800 families there had sold a daughter into prostitution, delegates at the 2001 Second World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation o...

I got my first donation yesterday, how great it feels. I am $100 closer, let’s keep it going.