Working Together and the term of Human Rights....
I belief that human rights is our daily life. The working together in the IDPs villages confirmed my belief.
We were trying to solve water problems in the IDPs villages. Nobody knowed the answer but we kept thinking together and shared our ideas. Then finally we got to know what should be done under the villages' contexts and all resources available.
Not the very best solutions but we are sure that our IDPs friends in Huai Wad are having more water containers for the coming rainy season. They will have more water for their households' consumtions during the dry season too. Also our IDPs friends in Pong Hi will have clean drinking water resulted from the filtration systems we built up together.
It was a bit difficult during those days as there were some communication problems among us, the Lahu, Australian and Thai. But it was also a great challenge to integrate our ways of thinking and local wisdoms into the working processes. So we had lots of fun and our friendships developed. We all have learnt many things together and we did feel the "ownerships".
It was said that to access to water is a basic human rights but i think this is only a romantic term when the IDPs are still hungry, having no food and water.
Even we did not mentioned this romantic term but it becomed a daily life according to the processes of working together, participation and respect to each other.This is another lesson learnt about human right, very simple and practical way.
I would like to thank you all friends who have voluntary minds, the Engineers Without Borders:EWB volunteers from Australia, my Chinagrai teams and the IDPs friends who work for their comminities. Keep our belief and let's change for the better !
I belief that human rights is our daily life. The working together in the IDPs villages confirmed my belief.
We were trying to solve water problems in the IDPs villages. Nobody knowed the answer but we kept thinking together and shared our ideas. Then finally we got to know what should be done under the villages' contexts and all resources available.
Not the very best solutions but we are sure that our IDPs friends in Huai Wad are having more water containers for the coming rainy season. They will have more water for their households' consumtions during the dry season too. Also our IDPs friends in Pong Hi will have clean drinking water resulted from the filtration systems we built up together.
It was a bit difficult during those days as there were some communication problems among us, the Lahu, Australian and Thai. But it was also a great challenge to integrate our ways of thinking and local wisdoms into the working processes. So we had lots of fun and our friendships developed. We all have learnt many things together and we did feel the "ownerships".
It was said that to access to water is a basic human rights but i think this is only a romantic term when the IDPs are still hungry, having no food and water.
Even we did not mentioned this romantic term but it becomed a daily life according to the processes of working together, participation and respect to each other.This is another lesson learnt about human right, very simple and practical way.
I would like to thank you all friends who have voluntary minds, the Engineers Without Borders:EWB volunteers from Australia, my Chinagrai teams and the IDPs friends who work for their comminities. Keep our belief and let's change for the better !
