Nov 3, 2023 | Northern Thailand TCD Expansion, Southeast Asia, Sustainable Development, Thailand, Water
Water Filters are Working Well This quarter, the Thailand team investigated the possibility of helping communities develop in new localities. We spoke with government community development officials in Mae On District, Chiang Mai Province. We traveled to Chiang...
Oct 17, 2023 | Education, Income, Indonesia, Mawa Village, Southeast Asia, Sustainable Development
Pivoting to Ducks! This has been a hard year for the Mawa community. Thousands of pigs, the villagers’ primary income source, were wiped out by the African Swine Flu. 60% of village men are now separated from their families because they needed to go find work...
Oct 17, 2023 | Income, MH Village*, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Sustainable Development
Villagers Use Locally Resourced Wood to Rebuild Myat Hlae villagers worked hard to rebuild the Early Childhood Care Development Center that was destroyed by the recent cyclone. The Transformational Community Development (TCD) committee raised funds locally and...
Oct 17, 2023 | Income, Myanmar, Southeast Asia, Sustainable Development, Yone Taw 2 Village
Loan Program Benefits 150+ People It has been tough to make a living in Myanmar since the pandemic and military coup. The community we worked with suffered the impacts of the events over the past three years. But the Yone Taw villagers were positive about their...
Sep 5, 2023 | Income, Indonesia, Polewali Village, Southeast Asia, Sustainable Development, Water
Developing New Areas and Growing Others We have good news this quarter! A new Transformational Community Development (TCD) group has formed in one of the more impoverished village clusters of the Polewali community. Residents of this particular cluster have been...
