WHAT WE DO 

Water Project

Consider life without clean water.

Clean water is at the core of providing a way for the hill tribe villages to escape the life of poverty. Water resource and sanitation projects provide for:

• Clean drinking water and bathrooms/latrines located in the villages
• Sanitation and reduced disease
• Increased ability to provide food for their own people through gardens and fish ponds
• Agricultural opportunities such a coffee bean and soybeans
• Freed up time to explore and work on business endeavors
• Increased focus on education for children
• And more

Hope starts with clean water and flows to endless opportunities that are far-reaching, life sustaining and hope giving!

Join us!

Community Sponsor

The work does not stop with the completion of a water project!

Sponsoring a community provides funds and support for for ongoing, sustainable projects such as education for children, community health clinics, training in disease prevention and proper nutrition, and clinic hiring, training and management, social development, agriculture programs, micro-enterprising and more.

Much of the ongoing work is multi-faceted and will impact future generations. For example, many of the remote villages have no access to schools for the children. ITDF assists in constructing schools, hiring teachers, and purchasing equipment and supplies. Education, with coordination through the local government, provides the children/students an opportunity to gain citizenship and ultimately acceptance into the Thai society.

ITDF staff work closely with the village leaders to determine needs and make a plan based on what the village sees as their biggest needs. Villagers are always the driver is what ITDF does next thus empowering them to take part in building their own futures.

Community Sponsor

The work does not stop with the completion of a water project!

Sponsoring a community provides funds and support for for ongoing, sustainable projects such as education for children, community health clinics, training in disease prevention and proper nutrition, and clinic hiring, training and management, social development, agriculture programs, micro-enterprising and more.

Much of the ongoing work is multi-faceted and will impact future generations. For example, many of the remote villages have no access to schools for the children. ITDF assists in constructing schools, hiring teachers, and purchasing equipment and supplies. Education, with coordination through the local government, provides the children/students an opportunity to gain citizenship and ultimately acceptance into the Thai society.

ITDF staff work closely with the village leaders to determine needs and make a plan based on what the village sees as their biggest needs. Villagers are always the driver is what ITDF does next thus empowering them to take part in building their own futures.

Hands To Heart

The Hands to Heart Hill Tribe Women’s Cooperative was created through Lanna Foundation to support the mission of the Hill Tribe Women’s Cooperative to inspire each other to be role models to their children, be creative entrepreneurs, and play an active role in the economics of their families who struggle with oppression and poverty. Through the support of the Hands to Heart Hill Tribe Women’s Cooperative and Lanna Foundation, you will be partnering with cooperative members to improve the livelihood of these women’s families. Donations from Hands to Heart go towards micro-loans to begin their entrepreneurship, training and development, and travel to other villages for inspiration and shared learning experiences.