Working together for a school affected from flood on Hill Water System

 In the middle of August, the SCF network in Mae Hong Son coordinate for helps  after a big flood. We, then spent September and Octobergoing to the sites  affected from flood. After supporting one school for school toilets,  providing learning materials and necessities to three schools, we worked with a school to plan for hill water system. 

The project will be implement together in during 5- 8  December, 24. This project is a bit challenge, besides as the project site is some  369  Kms from  the SCF office,  most of our Thai donors also affected from flood.  Luckily, our advisor in Singapore helped raising fund from friends in Singapore and the SCF team raised fund from a few friends to cover the cost of project materials.

The journey to create positive changes is coming soon !

Another journey to create positive impacts !

We left the SCF office at 6.30 pm on 3 may, 24 and arrived at Mae Khit village at 5.30 am. on 4 may, 24. After a short nap we started working together with the villagers to cope up with water scarcity at 8.00 am

 It was a good time to see  the SCF team and Karen at Mae Khit  learn and share together, and friendship building up along the way among them.  A very good time for self-development for all of us, including me! 

 Our working together on water system  was successful.  Six water tanks and water collectors are in places to improve water supply to the village.  However, the villageers must have a proper water management so everyone can  access to water all year round. .

We belief that the accessibility to adequate water promotes human dignity and led to a better sanitaion !

We left the village at 5 pm on 5 may, 24. All the working together completed. But our journey to create positive impacts is never ending.

A call for supports on "Mae Khit water project" !

 After a few online consultaions with Mae Khit's leaders in March, 2024,  we decided to go to Mae Khit to explore the water challenges during  8-9  April, 2024. It was a long and tired journey , but quite  fruiuful !

Seeing the real situations together with  discussions and consultations with Mae Khit team reflected  how hard they try to live with lack of water.  They have been contacting local organizations to help their water problems, but it was not successful.

Before leaving the village, we had an agreement with the leaders, we are going to  solve the water challenges with Mae Khit team during 27-28 April, 2024. We are going to provide materials and the villagers going to share their labours.

 Let' s join us to create positive changes at Mae Khit ! All kinds of your supports are very welcome !

 

Water challenges at Mae Keed village !

During 11-12  March 2024, we got contacts from leaders of Mae Keed village. They need us to support water challenges at the village 

        This Karen village located  at Mae Na Jang  Subdistrict, Mae La Noi District, Mae Hong Son Province, in the northern Thailand. There are 96 households in the village. The villagers relied on hill water system. The water head of the village loated at a hill, four kilometers  to the east of the village.

The water challenges at the village are; 

1)  At the village's water head  only small amonut  in dry season is  not enough for the 96 households. 2)The  pvc pipes transporting water from the water head to the village's water tanks are broken for dome 1.5 kilometers.                                                                                                                                  3) the village's water tanks are very old and some are broken and warer leaking. So the tanks cannot store enough water for the HHs consumptions.

We planned to go to the site to learn the challenges and how to over come the challenges with the village's leaders  in early April ! 

Would you like to join us ?

Mae Keed Village location

water at the village's water head in rainy season 

the broken pipe

 

water leaking from the tank

Sharing is the forever Happiness !

 According to our campaign  to collect clothes, shoes and necessaries from our local network to a doctor at Khun Yuam Hospital and we got  a lot of contribusions. The sharing  was packed in 13 big boxed and sent to the doctor. He kindly shared the happiness to 60 school kids and the kids will share the happiness to their neighbours. This is marvellous !

Sharing is a forever Happiness, we belief !

Water challenges at Nernsaduak village

 We got contacts from our local network innforming  a need on water challenges at Nernsaduak village. We then join the village meeting with  three local network, Word Vision, P  Change and Hill Area Development Foundation (HADF).

From the disscussion and site recce, we got to know that this 35 years old village located under forest reservation  area .Most of the villagers are Akha ans some are Esan who migrated in from many location in Chiang Rai and from our neighbor country.   There  are 445  villagers of  94 households and some of them are stateless. They grow corns and cassavas.

 Challenges on water are about 1) the land onwership . The present land of tank location  belongs to an individual and he wants to get the land back as soon as possible.  2)  water pipes transporting water to the water tanks always broken in rainy season while there aremany  leaves in the dams in summer.

After the site recce, we had a discussion and  drafted a  plan  to 1) build  four water tanks of 1.50 cm. diameter / 200 cm high to store some 14,000 litres of water at a  piece of land which are more secured.  2) build higher dam wall at the water head to prevent water pipes. 3) to find the way to prevent leaves getting into water pipe. 

The leader asked us if we could support materails  while they  share their labours . We did not make any commitment  but we told them we will have to estimate the cost of materials and  put this issue into SCF committee meeting agenda.

Before we left,  we introduced them to re-arrabge water distribution from the village tanks to the households fronm fishbone pattern to be looping system. So every household can get water when they turn on water taps at the same time. Also we introduced the leaders to set up water management especially using water carefully under a certain agreement or rules with  effective enforcement.

A simple way to examine water quality at a village level !

 During 2009-2023, most of our tasks on water with local people were uncreasing water supply, water storage at village, cluster and household levels. Thses work were very  supportive to the villagers to access to clean water.

In 2024 we starts to  focus on quality of water feeding villages, so we set up workshops for leaders , youths and school kids on simple way to test water qulaity in the streams.

We belief this activity  can help local people to be more self-reliance on water. This is one of the sustainable ways on "WATER". 

How nice to see  the "STREAMS DETECTIVES" of three generations working actively and happily  together at  the village's water head.