richyang travel

We are Richard and Angela Berkfield. We are traveling through the Americas, after four years of working in Thailand with the Karen people from Burma (checkout our two old websites about our work there http://alongtheborder.tripod.com and http://alongtheborder2.tripod.com).

a little about our journey...

...and we think we are too! Here we attempt to explain our travel motivations: We are presently on a journey to learn from indigenous communities in the Americas. We have chosen to do this by traveling with a pack on our backs and a loose itinerary because this provides us with many opportunities that are otherwise hard to come by. We feel that ancient indigenous cultures, especially their interconnectedness with the environment, hold the key for the future survival of the planet. We are dedicated to help in the preservation of this wisdom during this time of rapid modernization. We are both interested in traditional systems of healing, including community development and environmental conservation. Through our travels we hope to find out where we might work after we finish grad school. In September we both start grad school at the School for International Training in Vermont. We are enrolled in a Masters program for Intercultural Leadership and Management. It is 9 months on campus and a 6 month internship. We then plan to move to Latin America to continue our lives abroad!

Saturday, March 03, 2007

Off into the great unknown yet again!
Yep, that´s right. We are going to stay in a community for the next two weeks to do a little volunteer work. We are going to collect information about the rare high altitude Andean forest that this community is protecting. The plan is to write a small booklet in English about the forest for student, volunteer, and tour groups who will visit the community and forest.
Should be fun!

Here is the link to our friend Peter´s website and the community we will be staying in. This is one of his projects and he is helping us do this work.

http://www.casainteram.org/peribuela.html

We are going to stay with this lovely older couple and learn from the man on the right, Geronimo. We visited them last week and really enjoyed them and the forest.

Tune in next time to see how we did!
By the way, BBC news is doing a story about Mae Sot, the town where we used to live in Thailand.
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