You’ve probably heard something similar to this before: “I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.”
If you think back to your memories of school, what moments stand out?
For all the countless days you spent in a classroom, I’m sure that for many of you, there will also be at least some memories of the few days you spent participating in field trips, learning through hands-on activities in the outdoors.
Since Jungle Life Camp is in the business of understanding, we try to provide the Khao Sok community with as many of these hands-on activities as we can. We run several projects, each with their own different set of objectives, but all of them follow experiential learning concepts. Depending on which project is in our mind at the time, we often call ourselves a nature camp, environmental learning centre, outdoor activity provider and other related names. It’s actually quite hard to pin down our work into one, easy-to-understand phrase.
That’s why we often describe our work through our four core values. Our role in the community shifts over time as we seek to make ourselves as useful as we can, while sticking to these values.
Another way to explain our work is through numbers. Just in the last four months, we have run 35 experiential education camps for local study groups. In August alone, we facilitated over 600 extra-curricular learning days for free. In 2025, we ran activities for 3,000 local students and teachers.
We are proud of these numbers, because they show that we are not just another CSR project whose sole purpose is to promote a business. We are working every day of the year planning and running activities for local children. We are so busy doing this, in fact, that most of our work never finds its way onto a website, poster or reel.
But, as proud of this as we are, our work is not all about numbers. Our work is more importantly about people, about the environment, and about the relationships between them. Another way to think of our work from last year is that
in 2025, we added 3,000 stories to local people’s lives.
One day it might be the story of the time that little Bua planted a tree for the first time. Another day it might be the story of when Gai had his first conversation in English. The next day it could be the story of how Mrs. Namsakul learned about the importance of fig wasps. We hope that at least some of these stories will be remembered for years to come.
One of our missions is to tell the story of Khao Sok, in the hope that it can inspire others to take greater care of our planet, along with all of its inhabitants.
If you would like to hear about some of our stories yourself, we would love you to check out our latest newsletter here.
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