• We work to build social link in the ethnic minorities villages by establishing common values and structure together.

• We give them the chance and the moment to express their needs and their point of view on the village development. The solutions are thought at grassroots level according to culture, traditions and visions. (People-Led Development).

• We aim at guiding the community to carry on a common project for their village : civic, social, economic, environmental or infrastructural. We help them plan, implement, follow-up and evaluate it.

More photos and videos on our social actions, the organic farm, on the village of Da Nha and surrounding areas on our channel :

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKOZqQtYk8U_4tutGYgDidg

MORE ABOUT COMMUNITY BUILDING

1. BACKGROUND OF THE ACTION

Da Nha is a K’ho, Ma and Tay ethnic minorities village in Quoc Oai commune, in Da Teh district. 1 095 persons belonging to 283 households live in this poor village. 118 households are registered as very poor families, that is to say earning less than 16usd a month. Da Nha population is mainly young : 56 % are under 18 years old, 39 % are 19-60 years old, 4 % are 60 – 90 years old. Da Nha population is driven by a good community spirit and are prone to help and communicate each other. All families are farmers, cultivate cashews and rice on the terrasse.

The district of Dateh is located south west of Lam Dong province with a total population of 49,848 people including 2,311 of local ethnic minorities and 8,431 of Northern ethnic minorities. The majority of people at Dateh district are poor.

The K’ho and Ma are the most disadvantaged group in the district of Dateh: the poorest, less literate, less healthy. The other groups are less illiterate less poor and better integrated.

Major part of Da Teh population are farmers or earn their living by cutting bamboos and woods. Nowadays, deforestation being illegal, so people shifted their activities to rice, cashews, sugar cane plantings and breeding livestock, etc. Ethnic minorities are called montainous people as they mainly live in those specific areas and they are totally dependant from the forest. They still cut and exploit illegally the wood from the forest, meanwhile they struggle to adapt their agriculture on the steep slope of mountains, which obviously involves some technical restrictions. Their lives are centered on the forestry activities so that the other parts of their social life are critically detrimental.