This video documents a house building project for our friends during the pandemic. A BIG THANK YOU to our YouTube viewers that put up with those pesky ads, to our Patreon patrons and to FEURICH, Vienna and Apogee Digital in US. Your. support that made this project possible.

Krahan asked me to film and post a video about his house for him, so here it is. Filmed with iPhone 14 Pro.

About Krahan:
Krahan is Karen. When Krahan was 14yearsold, the Burmese army burned down his village. Krahan became a child solider to fight for his people. He spent the following years facing starvation and hardship in the Burmese jungle. His family got separated escaping the Burmese soldiers.

Eventually Krahan was reunited with his family across the border in Thailand where his people were given refugee status. The Karen people in Krahan's community are Christians.

Krahan is skilled at caring for elephants. Due to his experience as a solder he became good at managing people. These gifts and experience were recognised by the owner of Elephants World and he was offered the job as headmahout. Krahan lived and worked at Elephants World for 13 years. During that time we became close friends.

Krahan was let go by the owner of Elephants World, along with almost all the Elephants World staff, at the start of the pandemic. Thailand closed its borders so Elephants World had no visitor revenue. Half the elephants were returned to their former owners.

Krahan's income only enabled his family to get by from month to month. Elephants World had been the only home Krahan and his family had known after arriving in Thailand as refugees. Without a job to support his family, Krahan returned to his Karen village on the Thai side of Thai/Burmese border. However, Krahan, his wife Bua and son, Sawang and Che, were homeless. It’s hard to see friends in this situation without wanting to help in some way.