Working with the Karen people: Dormitories for CDC school

tirsdag 29. mai 2012

Dormitories for CDC school

We have been making temporary dormitories for the Mae Tao Clinic`s CDC school.

It has been yet another great cooperation with MTC, Albert Company-Olmo and Jan Glasmeier.

The dormitories are low cost and easy to assemble. It will be a total of 4 houses, each housing 25 students. Local climate and cultural use has been important aspects of the planning process, and it appears successful. The materials are locally available and well known for the users, so the maintenance will be low cost and easily done.

Pah Me during the construction

And, we are published:

Open architecturenetwork

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Gyaw Gyaw is my own organization that I share with my 9 fantastic colleagues. I am Norwegian, the others are Karen migrants. We all live in the village of Noh Bo on the border between Thailand and Burma. Our organization is registered in Norway: org.nr: 994201743

We are building schools, dormitories, wells and other houses for the communities based on sustainable architecture in combination with knowledge exchange. We are contributing to people helping themselves by working alongside with the local communities we are building for and with. For us a good project is leaving knowledge, it`s mainly using local materials, or alternatives like adobe (mud bricks). It`s focusing on functionality, natural light and ventilation, and is easy to maintenance for the users.

We are lucky to have got the Norwegian entrepreneurs HENT and Asplan Viak as our main sponsors. We also get donations from Baias, Jessheim Rotary, Hvam VGS and private persons. The money all goes to the projects on the border.

Sometimes it requires a minimum of needs covered before people can take action of their own development. For the kids at the local school across the river, they don`t learn very much if they don`t get at least two meals a day and can sleep in a mosquitonet to avoid malaria. That is also the case for the 70 kids at the dormitory in Mae La Oon refugee camp who live there because it is the only place they can go to school. You can be the most dedicated student, but without food it is not easy to learn. And the story goes on and on...... We can not help everyone, but these to cases are kids and places we have followed through the last years.

Please feel free to give a donation by following the link below, or transfer the wanted amount to our account in DnBNor: 1503 11 56081 or use our PayPal account on the Gyaw Gyaw webpage: www.gyaw.org

Some places touches your hart more then others! For me, Safe Haven Orphanage (or direct translated from Karen: Big Mum`s House on the Rocks), is that special place. Few, if any people I have met, carry the name "Big Mum" so rightly as the lady in charge of this big family. Her name is Tasanee, and her authoritarian, but loving behavior as a mother and role model for the more then 60 children in her care, is no less than impressive. From time to time different actors are contributing, mostly through building projects, but also by donating clothes etc. Food and everyday needs are however not fully covered. To give an economical base, I have made a sponsorprogram for the children. This is of course done in cooperation with Tasanee. Sponsors in Norway pay 200NOK every month, and the money goes to the everyday needs of the orphanage. If you are interested in sponsoring for a longer period, please e-mail and I will send you the information and sponsorappointment for a year.

To put everything completely right, I will inform that for me, I don`t get payed to do this, but the sponsormoney pays for my plane ticket. For the rest I live of the money I earn during my holidays in Norway.

So, to support:

use the following link https://www.deltager.no/gayawgayaw

Or feel free to donate on account 1503 11 56081

Working with the Karen people

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tirsdag 29. mai 2012

Dormitories for CDC school

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