1007CON
Construction - Baan Kuan Pring (Nakorn Sritammarat province)

11-24 July 2010

Project:Baan Kuan Pring is a small village in Nakhon Sritammarat province on the border to the provinces Pattalung and Trang. The campsite is near a national park with beautiful nature and the famous mountain range called Ban Tat. About 200 people live in Baan Kuan Pring and the main occupation is working on local rubber farms. Volunteers will work together with a group of enthusiastic villagers who are setting up a learning centre for biological/ecological agriculture near a national park in a rainforest surrounding. Awareness of environmental issues and self-sufficiency has not spread much among villagers in rural areas wherefore their aim is to educate people about those topics. As well university students come regularly to learn about this way of farming. Volunteers will build a clay house with a small experienced group from the North of Thailand. The clay house will be used as a library and the learning centre itself additional to the outdoor areas where vegetables and fruits are grown in a nature-friendly way. Other small environmental and agricultural activities can be done as well as getting to know Thai culture. If volunteers want to contribute books (for example easy books to learn English) to the library they are more then welcome to do so.

Aims of work camp:

- to learn and experience ways of biological farming

- to build a clay house to be used as a library

- to help the learning centre to become more attractive and informative

- to support and help the local agricultural group of Baan Kuan Pring

- to build good relationships between volunteers and local people

Accommodation: All volunteers will stay in Baan Kuan Pring Learning Centre

Fee: 7,000 Baht (about 155 Euro)

Location: Baan Kuan Pring, Nakorn Sritammarat province, south of Thailand

Meeting point:11th July at Pattalung train station, 10 o’clock in the morning

Infosheet : If you are interested, ask your organization for a more detailed info sheet of this project.