On the occasion of PiA's 115th anniversary (in 2013), we commissioned a documentary film to illuminate what is at the core of the PiA experience: service, community, and a change in perspective.
PiA fosters mutual appreciation and cross-cultural understanding between the United States and Asia through immersive work fellowships in host organizations and communities.
Patrick Dowd was an Ajahn at Payap University in Chiang Mai in 2010, and has never really left Asia since then. He's currently living in the culturally Tibetan region of Ladakh and working on a Tibetan/Ladakhi language ethical education children’s book for Ladakhi youth.
Michelle Laws, a PiA Fellow at Marie Stopes in Dili, Timor Leste, speaks making friends in the office, breaking out the Bachata moves in her first month in Dili, and a neighbor that makes her smile.
