We've alluded to it a couple of times, but it's time to make the official announcement: this October, Breadpig is coming to a South Asia near you!
In addition to Bourdaining record-breaking amounts of pho and curry, we will be visiting a wide variety of Room to Read sites in the region. The first stop is Laos, where Alexis and Christina will both visit RtR's country offices in Vientiane as well as the elementary school in Salavan province that we funded with XKCD book proceeds. After that, Alexis goes back to real life, but Christina continues on to Vietnam. After visiting RtR's country offices and a site or two in Ho Chi Minh City, she will head North to Hanoi to wish the city a slightly belated 1000th birthday. Then it's onward to Sri Lanka: while a visit to Nuwara Eliya where the Breadpig-funded school room is not possible due to tightened security, Christina will visit with the country offices in Colombo. Finally, Christina will visit Nepal, where she'll stop in Kathmandu before heading out to meet with the Bardiya community in which the Breadpig-funded reading room is currently under construction.
tl;dr Tour Dates (subject to slight changes)
Oct. 2nd - Oct. 9th: Vientiane and Pakse, Laos
Oct. 10th - Oct. 14th: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Oct. 14th - Oct. 17th: Hanoi, Vietnam
Oct. 18th - Oct. 23rd: Colombo, Sri Lanka
Oct. 24th - Nov. 1st: Kathmandu and Bardiya, Nepal
Throughout this epic odyssey, we'll be providing you (internet gods willing) with pictures, videos, and blogposts of everything we're seeing so that you can have a better sense of the work Room to Read is doing with your hard-earned cash.
But we need your help! Have suggestions for places to go, things to do, noms to nom, or people/organizations to meet up with? Or maybe you have questions you'd like to ask the students, teachers, or communities being impacted by our efforts? Do you live in one of these places? If so, PLEASE leave us a comment or email christina AT breadpig.org! We are totally open to all suggestions, ideas, and especially to buying beer for Breadpig legionnaires.
I'm in Armenia at the moment, but I'll be as active as I can be via email while travelling. Good luck with that YC application – looking fwd to answering any questions you may have.