Organizations To Help

There are many dive shops that have banded togheter to help clean the debris from the coral reef around the island. This area in Thailand is a know for being a Marine National Park with some of the most spectacular dives in all of Asia. Yet the Thai government is doing very little to help clean up this "national park". The dive shops on the island need ceritfied divers to come and help with the clean up. Here is a link to Viking Divers who are actively involved in this end of the clean up.

Other than the diving there are two organizations on the island doing some great work, individually and together. They fit well into this concept of Flash Mob Missions because they have tons of work for people to do. All we need to do is show up on the island and they will put us to work. They are:

HI Phi Phi - This is a locally organized group of people doing everything they can to help out their Thai brothers and sisters on the island. They have been running the majority of the work projects out of a make shift office in one of the local pubs. Anyone is welcome to sign in and start working! Their web site will give you a great deal of information on what happened on this island and what is happening. You may also want to check out their message board, as updates on good hotel rates will sometimes be posted there.

Hands on Phi Phi - This is a division of Hands on Global. This organization was started right after the tsunami and has done great work all over southern Thailand. Their site has great information about Phi Phi, with an extensive picture gallery. Once you have decided to be a part of the mob I would recommend applying to be a volunteer for them. Even if you don't work with them your entire visit, it is nice to have a back up plan.

The one way this mission experience will be different then most is that the people of this island need us to come and spend our money. So that means if you take a day in the middle of the week to go scuba diving, you are doing a tremendous thing for the island by helping rebuild their economy. I suggest you take time during your journey with this flash mob to stop and experience all of what Phi Phi has to offer. That is rebuilding too!