2004/12　a volunteer report

A request of a volunteer urgently reached chief priest Sompong Khamchiwong from an elementary school of Pharasing village. "A school does not have a desk and a chair" "Children must go to draw water to a river under a mountain" "the village, poor children belong to the most poverty" An investigating group visited a village with the chief priest at once.

A visit Pharasing village Relief supplies and a donation It is remitted a donation by Japan. A volunteer corps of Chan Mai brings in old materials and makes a desk and a chair at the actual place and donates a pump. (2005/2/6)

There is Pharasing village in 6km remote place from a small town of Mai Ai which is near to the Thai northernmost. Pharasing is a village of a minority race with an old tradition. It is almost a border with Myanmar, and there is it in a management bottom of the armed forces. A household living in this village is 11 households. There is the elementary school which 14 children go along in this small village. But, the elementary school is ..... A school building is a hut of a roof of a leaf. A classroom is the plain room which bound a pillar with cloth. Of course there are not a desk and a chair, and a blackboard substitutes a white board. A soldier of the armed forces served as the teacher of a school. A villager is very poor, and children cannot eat in a house satisfactorily. Children go to school to get food given by the armed forces. Because it is a small village, there is little support from a country, and water must go to draw it every day to a river of the foot. A water drawer becomes daily work of children. Such children are not able to afford to take education.

I received an urgent support request from chief priest Sompong Khamchiwong of Chiang Mai, and we decided to give a villager a pump and a desk and a chair, school things, old clothes in March, 2005. (in detail:Volunteer album)

Getting back to the subject In this village, there were sad stories of a young woman of "MIDA". "MIDA" is two beautiful young women chosen for men. A young woman chosen as "MIDA" for a festival in a village of a specific day must have relation with plural men if demanded regardless of their will.There seems to have been what it was unpleasant, and the young woman who ran away was returned to a village, and was killed in old days. Now a local soldier seems to prohibit it, but a lower photograph is a photograph reproducing a dance at that time.

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