During the 2018-2019 school year, students from the Hmong programs at Harding and Washington participated in a study tour to Thailand. The study tour gave the students the opportunity to experience life in local Hmong villages first hand. Students visited and interacted with local Hmong, young and old, as well as students at a local school, in hilltribe villages in the Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai areas. 

Harding and Washington students and staff group photo with a few local Hmong villagers in a nearby Hmong village in the Chiang Mai area.

Washington students posing with traditional Hmong tools, lub zeb zom and tus tuav cos. We had fun practicing with the tools. 

Washington students posing next to a Hmong house.

Washington and Harding students and staff posing in front of the White Temple in Chiang Rai.

Local Hmong villagers in a local village in the Chiang Mai area. The ladies were busy with their textile work, spinning fiber into yarn. In the same village, children too young to go to school were runnig and playing around. We got to interact and play with the children.