Afect Development Programme

1)  Akha Children Life Program

To reinforce children to be  a leadership to have human dignity originating to be accepted from society and to let the children to have an opportunity to think , to plan, to create and to have decision making including an occupational development to reduce Poverty and are able to inherit akha tribal ethnic.

2)  Akha Elderly Life Project

            
         There will be activities to create health care and to exchange body of knowledge, to have additional income and to develop elderly life network with Akha  male and female at the 50 years of age or more to be accepted from outside society and highland communities.

3)  Akha Women Project

         Is the development work to let Akah women to have a chance to be in social participate both inside the communities and outside society.

         To set an exchange forum to create  learning the problem situation of Akha women along MeKhong basin area and to develop an income process to reduce poverty including to protect Akha women’s rights.

4)  Akha Environment Project  

The  decadence of natural resources is the problem effecting to human and organism. It is the need to have the teaching format and knowledge creation to conscious the natural conservation to have natural immunity protection. To use tribal cultural mitigation is one dimension of highland community resources conservation on the principle of Nature, Culture, human creature are the one.

5)  Akha Media Project

The activity is to create understanding knowledge for Akha people by using media equipments such as newspaper, website, radio and mass media relation activities to follow every movement situation in highland communities which is leading to the local learning for the right decision to use in the way of life.

6)  Akha Life Culture & Environment School ( ALS )

   

Is the project of research, study, compile the body of knowledge, way of life,  culture  and environment of Akha people to make local curriculum to teach , to inherit to the interested person including to open the exchange forum of problems and obstacles to find  the way of  culture and environment for Akha people.

7)  Save the twin babies for Akha people. Project RATIONALE

Akha people are spread across Asia in five of its countries, China, Burma, Laos, and Vietnam And Thailand.  In Thailand the majority of akha live in the northern region of the country and its five provinces are Tak, Prae, Lampang, Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai. Over half of the Akha population in Thailand live in Chiang Rai province about 65,000 person.akha people all five province. We have population 95,000 Akha.

        The primary occupation for Akha people in Thailand is in agriculture activities range from rice, corn and fruit tree cultivation to animal husbandry. Akha people carry with them a strong belief in their traditional knowledge and their religion of ancestral worship.  Akha people have rich culture which includes many ceremonies dating back as far as 2,700 years.  A respect for the forest and its products in enshrined in Akha culture, and thus a reciprocal relationship has been formed.  Until the present time Akha people had only been supported by natural products.

        Akha people have a traditional belief that a mother should have only one child, therefore, when a mother births two children it seen as a bad sign.   It is also believed to have negative connotations for the entire family, because it is viewed as having the potential of destroying everything from crops to the family’s home.  Others villagers will also view the birth of twin babies in negative light, as a result, the family is often shunned and barred from any sort of community gatherings. Handicapped children are also seen in a similar light.

        In an attempt to solve this problem AFECT has initiated a “Save the Twin Babies for Akha People Project.” AFECT is currently supporting 92 children, both twins and handicaps. This is achieved with the provision of clothing, milk, blankets and hospital services for up to 6 months for each family. At the same time AFECT is continuously working to promote the integration of twins and handicap children into Akha communities, and in the future hopes to change the traditional belief of killing twin babies and handicap children.

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