This is a clip from the Akha Festival held at the shelter in August 2007. The Akha Swing Festival is the best known of all Akha celebrations and one of the most important rituals in the Akha calendar. The festival is held once the rice harvest has matured marking the end of the hard weeding work and takes place approximately two months before the harvest season. At the shelter we built and had heaps of fun on the swing and celebrated with lots of food, music and dancing!

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