former staff
After 27 months in the Peace Corps Caleb joined Khom Loy as Peter's successor. As Managing Director he oversaw the transition from an eight person project to a 22 member Thai Foundation, directing all the necessary developments and administrative/accounting structures incumbent in that transition.
Peter played a integral role in the beginnings of Khom Loy. He developed excellent Thai language skills while volunteering with Peace Corps in Petchabun, Thailand and then used those skills to assist Paul in hiring Khom Loy's first staff members and developing it's initial management structure. He oversaw the start of the Agriculture, Montessori and Handicrafts projects.
Joom was KL's first office and accounting officer. She also played a crucial role in the early development of our Handicrafts project.
Bunjama,
as KL's first agriculture manager, joined Yote to complete coffee and tea pilot projects, our first fish ponds and multiple village water systems.
Alexandra, as KL's first Montessori volunteer, ran a training for teachers from Sahasat Suksa School, and area child development centers from both the local government authority of Mae Yao and the hilltribe welfare center. She also assisted the teachers and children in the classroom and helped develop new materials.
Jeff developed a line of high quality cushion covers mixing hill tribe designs with western tastes.
Lisu agriculture field officer.
Bubpachart organized many of the administrative systems as we moved from the Mirror Art Group Foundation to the Foudation for an Evolving Society.
Jessica first joined the Khom Loy Project staff as a
special fundraiser for a local orphanage and then later became our handicraft project
manager. Jessica streamlined and organized our Handicraft project organizing, reshaping and directing all the work done before her. She also partnered with Margarett Jamison and the Chiang Rung Women's Cooperative to develop a beautiful line of scarves and shawls.
Jan graduated from Toronto Montessori
Teachers Training Institute in 2001 and has five years experience as a
Montessori teacher in Stratford, ON Canada. She trained Waew in Montessori methods
and helped set-up, organize, and advance the classroom at Huay Mae Sai Child Development Center.
Moira earned her Montessori qualification from Wimbledon College and later served as the Montessori Directress of several schools in England and Nepal. During her sabbital she traveled to Chiangrai to offer her expertise to the KLDF Montessori project. Moira assisted in the training of new staff and local teachers, teaching children as well as evaluating each classroom and the project as a whole, providing invaluable expert advise.
Waew graduated with honours from the
Rajabhat Chiang Rai in Business English. She was trained
in the Montessori method by Jan Cook. Together with Jan she oversaw our
expansion into Huay Mae Sai Child Development Center. She also handled the project accounts and assisted in the interviewing and hiring of 4 new Montessori Project co-teachers.
Wendy Firlotte - One Village Project Manager (May - December 2005)
Wendy used her experience from four years of international development work in Southeast Asia and her Master's degree in Sustainable Development to conduct research and development for our potential vocational training project.
Pisamai Gangwansila (Lek) - Montessori Teacher - (April 2006 - April 2007) 
Lek graduated from the Chiangrai Rajabhat University in 2005 with a bachelors degree in Early Childhood Education. She is from the Karen village of Tung Praow. Lek trained and helped assist at Sahasat school and then helped open our Montessori classroom at JaTaw Child Development Center.