Udutama has reached a partnership agreement with a local social organization of guides from the Lahu ethnic minority and the travel agency Mundo Nómada in Thailand to promote this 3 days trekking of sustainable and responsible tourism, based on the community, in order to generate awareness of the peculiar ways of life and problems of these minorities.

For more information and to join, go to the following link of Mundo Nómada in Thailand:

http://toursentailandia.com/tour/eco-trekking-cultural-de-3-dias-en-chiang-rai/

Moreover, the travel agency Mundo Nómada has created a cheap trip of 15 days to Thailand that includes the eco-trekking, Bangkok, Chiang Mai and a few days at the amazing island of Koh Tao.

If you want to apply for the whole trip, you can find more information and the application form in this link:

http://toursentailandia.com/tour/eco-trekking-en-el-norte-e-isla-de-koh-tao/

The participants will have the opportunity to explore the wonderful human and natural landscape of the province of Chiang Rai while helping communities of ethnic minorities, among the most marginalized and poor in Thailand. They will learn about the ways of life, beliefs and peculiar traditions of these communities and, living with families in the villages, they will feel at home.

This program has been designed and created by members from ethnic minorities to support their local communities, and is managed directly by them. The guides come from the communities themselves and receive a fair payment for their work. The resulting profit is distributed among communities and families where the participants are staying.

Udutama association (www.udutama.org) has as one of its objectives to raise awareness about the ways of life and on the problems of the ethnic minorities with which it collaborates. People involved in this program are helping local communities to benefit directly from tourism practiced responsibly, to learn to manage themselves and to share their minority seriously threatened cultures. Udutama association, through regular field visits, guarantees the social nature of the program and, through annual evaluations, does the best to keep the experience of participants fully satisfactory.

After the evaluation process with very satisfactory results, this year 2016 Udutama facilitates the same three programs organized by our counterparts in Thailand last year. And, as a novelty, we offer a new program of eco Cultural trekking with ethnic minorities in the north. The programs are open all year and shall be valid until the end of March 2017.

The first program P1, called Mom Tik s Camp, consists of teaching English (or French) in public schools in Isan, northeast Thailand. It is the sixth year we offer it with a very high degree of satisfaction in the assessments we have done.

The second P2, about alternative community-based tourism, is the fourth year that we offer. Combines classic volunteering activities with the community with alternative tourism, to support a program of community-based tourism managed by the Hilltribe association for the development of ethnic minorities in northern Thailand.

The third P3 is the second year that we offer and is called "English Camp in the land of the Thai Phu". consists of teaching English in primary schools and secondary schools in the province of Nakhon Phanom, southeastern Thailand, touching Laos, in a region inhabited by the ethnic minority of the Phu Thai. This year the program will cost the same as Mom Tik Camp program as we want that families and the local organization can take care of volunteers at no cost.

Finally we offer as a novelty the fourth P4, also an echo alternative cultural trekking, organized by a social company of guides that belong to the Lahu ethnic group.

Procedure to reserve a place in a volunteering program Thailand 2016

1. Read the information document with information about the programs. You have to choose one of four programs that are offered and the dates on which you want to go. You can find more graphic info below at the links to the programs.

Click here to download the information document (in Spanish)

Depending on their security settings of your browser, the link may not work. If this is your case, ask the document This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

2. Download the booking form of the program you chose, fill it and send it to the address This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . To facilitate our work, please put your name as the name of the form document.

Click here to download the booking form for P1 - Mom Tik Camp

Click here to download the booking form for P2 - Alternative community-based tourism

Click here to download the booking form for P3 - English Camp in the land of Phu Thai

Click here to download the booking form for P4 - Alternative community-based tourism

Depending on their security settings of your browser, the link may not work. If this is your case, ask the document This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

3. Once received, we will contact our counterpart in Thailand to see if there is availability of places booked. When they answer, we'll email you the provisional booking of the places.

4. If you agree, within 10 days from receipt of this confirmation, you must deposit 50 euro fee commitment to participation in the association UDUTAMA following account:

Triodos Bank NV
IBAN: ES84 1491 0001 2021 4868 4927
BIC o SWIFT: TRIOESMMXXX

Put your name as the sender and send us, please, an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it telling that you made the transfer. With this fee, your place is reserved definately. From this moment you can buy a plane ticket and arrange your trip.

5. You will receive a document with more specific information about the meeting point in Thailand, contact numbers and final recommendations.

After your experience, we would like to know how was your experiencet, what you liked most and least. This assessment allows us to improve, along with our partners, the whole process for future volunteers.

To learn more about volunteer experience from previous years read el blog de Udutama.

We thank you in advance for your interest and wish you a truly rewarding experience!

Graphic information of programs:

Program P1: Mom Tik's Camp and teaching English in public schools in Isan - 2 weeks - 2 setmanes

Program P2: Community Based Alternative Tourism - 6 days

Program P3: English Camp in the land of the Phu Thai - 2 weeks

Program P4: Community based alternative tourism - 5 days

During the month of January we have been able to visit the ethnic minority at risk of social exclusion young students  that Udutama is supporting so that they can study and  have a better qualify of life.

We had a first informal meeting when they could tell us about their studies during the academic course and about their future plans. We were able to chat with them in depth for about six hours, thanks largely to the collaboration of our volunteer Yui, an excellent person residing in Bangkok who helps us manage the fund scholarships and solve communication problems with the girls in a totally disinterested way.

Mei, from the Lahu ethnic minority, will just finish her secondary education and aims to make the degree of English International Program in the Rajabhat University of Chiang Rai.

Pond, from the Akha ethnic group, also finishes this course her technical studies at the Chiang Rai Agriculture and Technology College. She would like to continue the upper cycle but must first convince her family since her parents have told hem she has to get a job so that she can help them.

Nam, also Akha, will begin next course the last year of her degree in Tourism studies. She will have to develop a tourism project during the course. We are pleased that Nam no longer needs our help, she has found a part time job in a coffeeshop and two of her brothers are already working and can help her family.

We could carry out two subsequent visits to the College where Pond is studying and to Mei’s school. We could talk there with some of their teachers, who confirmed us that both are good students and pass the subjects without difficulty.

The purpose of these grants is to try that these girls have a better future than they expected for the socio-economic conditions of their families, to make them self-sufficient and eventually they can also help their families and their communities thanks to a better payed and worthy job. We think that the results so far are very satisfactory.

We take this opportunity to thank again the contribution to this project of our members, volunteers, donors as Imma and collaborators as Yui. Without their help it would be impossible to make it real !

Activities Report 2015

Economic Report 2015 (in spanish)

We take this opportunity to thank all collaborators, members, volunteers, donors, supporters and counterparts the good work done