The project aims to build up machinery to work in district level for advocating policy and implementation on sexual reproductive health and sexual wellbeing of Lao Migrant Female, with collaborations of organizations through field workers like ‘Community Health Navigator or Health Buddy’, peers who take care of health and sexual reproductive health.
Health And Share Foundation (HSF.) is working in rural area on primary health care and HIV/AIDS along the border Thai-Laos, Ubon Ratchathani Province. In the rural area the family structure has been changing, many families moved to the big city for working.
Graduation is and will always be, throughout the world, the moment of a new start and a new opportunity to grow. So personally I think this ceremony can also be called ‘graduation’.
Waking up early again this morning… according to plan, this was the last morning in Pak-sang village and we had to say goodbye, even though it was difficult, to the host families… The girls had prepared a thank you speech to be said to Grandmom Shu, P’ Ruk, P’ Thong, Mai-chan, and O-chan… another touching moment again this morning…We gathered again in Pak-sang village hall where we first met with the host families to express our sincere thanks to everyone for the last time.
Isn’t it nice to have Guay-jub (Vietnamese noodle) for breakfast!?!! Yummy yummy!!! Thx to P’ Noi, she is such a talented chef… We visited Natan Hospital (Sub-district or Tambon-level hospital) in the morning to learn about Thailand’s community health care system. Health volunteers (อสม. or Ao-sor-mor),
We used a primary school in Pak-sang village to host the Culture Night. All villagers either from Pak-sang or neighbouring villages were most welcome…The kids from the Pak-sang village, which were also students of this primary school, also took part in the event, including traditional E-san dances…The highlight was Buy-see-soo-kwan ceremony, a very unique E-san tradition which will only be done to important guests.
We all woke up very early this morning on purpose… We wanted our students to make merit in a traditional Thai Buddhist way – Tum-boon-tuk-bat (Food donation to the Buddhist monks)…
We started our day with breakfast provided by our resort, simple but delicious… Khao-tom-moo-sub (Rice soup with pork mince) or Khao-pad-koon-chiang (Thai fried rice with Chinese pork sausage) and ice-cream…Miss Hiromoto wanted to take the students back to Mae-khong river bank
After landed and greeted with a warm welcome from HFS staff at Ubonratchathani (International?) Airport, Mitsue-san, P’ Cherry, P’ Noi, P’ Thom, and Cherry Ngam – the most gorgeous lady in this Study Tour,
There have been about 500,000 HIV positive people existing in Thailand nowadays. After Thai government provides free Antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, new cases of HIV positive have been decreased in total. However, there have been still issues left to be overcome since some HIV positive cases taking ARV stop drugs by themselves after they realize that they become healthier.
