They live along the banks of the canal in Chiang Mai Lake, near the Night Bazaar. They are hardworking people who spend most of the day in working groups, Ruka makes all these beautiful fabrics. Then at about 6 pm they go to the Night Bazaar to sell clothes there. If they are lucky, they will sell 3 or 4 dollars of the product. Many times I saw them selling a belt or a hat for the price or less, just to make a sale to feed my family that night.
Many farangs (tourists) sell them as cheaply as possible; you hear an arrogant woman telling her boy friend “what to rip off” for only 200 Barts ($ 6us). I am sure that this is a fun barter with richer stall holders, and this is a barter market, but pushing the poor lady below the cost goes too far. Most of these ladies have dependents who care for children, children, parents and grandparents. You see that many older women care for a great child who has lost his parents.
There is no social security system in Thailand; some receive Health Care subsidies if they were born in Thailand with an identity card or work permit (which most foreigners cannot afford to buy).
People Ahi Chiang Mai, Thailand
fled NEVER COMPLETED WARS of the Far North
(raging since 1947).
Golden triangle covers a large area.
Traditionally, when Thailand, Burma and Loa join, they are called the Golden Triangle. “Gold” is liquid gold from unprocessed opium.
NEVER COMPLETE WAR rages every year (usually the dry season), this is a war of shit designed to keep curious eyes from the burgeoning fields of Burma, which produce about 3,700 tons of raw opium annually for export. This is very conservative, since the Shan state normally produces 300 to 500 tons of purified heroin per year.
However, this is a real war for people on the front line. He periodically shimmers into Thailand, which quickly suppresses the invasion. Many refugees go to Thailand and work there to the south.
Many of them ended up in Chiang Mai. Akha, Karen, Thai Yai (Shan). There are 13 or so ethnic groups that cut out their own states in Burma, running along the western border of Thailand from the far north to the famous Bangkok.
Most of the residents of Akha from Burma are devout Christians who converted to Christianity in the 1800s and in the last century when the British government of Burma. They speak Aha, read and write English there (A, B, Cs) with British influence once again.
After the British, the group after World War II around 1947, the church went underground when an endless war raged around them.
SLOK military junta, the power of which did not allow side contacts to enter or exit. Akha Hill, Akha hill tribe products is a non-profit non-profit business created by Mrs. A-Noah Yu-Po, Sie for her friends. Their immediate desire is to help the people of Ahah from the Hua-Fai and Chiang Mai communities get rid of poverty.
The mission of Akha Hill, in conjunction with the local Christian church, is buying land around Chiang Mai, building homes for the poor without interest to buy plans. Providing them with land paper for the land. At the moment they live without land without land. To give them a meaningful job with a good return for this job. Akha.hill and 1st Baan of Silver are sold worldwide.
Pull them from the streets and young people from the bars and the "karaoke" of the red lanterns.
That they live and work together as a family in an extended family village environment.
With such extreme poverty, you see that many young girls go to the bars selling flowers at 2 am, I mean young as soon as they are old enough to walk and say "only 10 Mr. Bart."
Young mothers of 15 or 16 years old with a baby on their back selling late Tribune Hill products. Grandmothers with a small child who went to the Night Bazaar to support her and the child, because the parents of the child died from helpers or some other illness or accident.
Achieve children in schools. Most residents of Ahi have no education at all and cannot read or write Akha, Thai or English.
The first relocation will be in Sansay.
Without land paper, they have no reason to ever go out of the poverty in which they live. Banks will not pawn their homes there. Mortality from disease, illness, depression, drug abuse, alcohol, etc. Is terrible. During the construction of Akha-Hill.com for Sie, I attended 4 funerals at the local Presbyterian church Akha Chiang Mai from the people of Akha, whom I met.
Sorry to update this, but now we attend another funeral. The “old” (52) lady died three days before Christmas and will be buried the next day on boxing day. One elderly lady in her late 40's died? old age. A young man at the age of 20 died from a drug overdose after his wife ran off with a rich farag (European)
One mom 3 died in the August floods. The old husband died three or several weeks after her, and no one followed him, he just gave up. The lady who died 3 days before Christmas is the wife's sister, who died before her husband. Last year, this family lost four.
Building Akha-Hill, I live with the people of Akha. The lady who died in the August floods lived with me for one month. After that, every night I sat on the footpath along the road along the canal when her younger boy begged. they found her 3 days after the flood further down the canal.
You can help the flood relief fund by clicking on the “Current” button on the Akha-Hill home page.
Akha from Chiang Mai is working hard to create the traditional village of Akha on 65 Paradise Lands just 10 kilometers from Chiang Mai in Sansai. It is in the countryside with rice fields and so on. With tour groups go out and stay overnight. I hope this helps to get them out of the cycle of poverty they are in.
