Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
There are 3 villages in the Santaishan area. All three are farming villages:
- Han Chinese village
- Jingpo village
- De’ang village
The Jinghpaw and De’ang are ethnic minority groups. Populations of both of these ethnic groups also live in Myanmar (Burma), in larger numbers than the groups found in China. The Han Chinese have the highest living standards of the three groups, so there are less cultural roadblocks to development for them.
Photos & video from this training:
De’ang Village Statistics
The De’Ang ethnic group in Yunnan Province, near the Myanmar border, is the smallest of ethnic minority groups in this part of China. Large numbers of De’ang can be found in Myanmar (Burma) but only small numbers of them remain in China. They have not mixed with the local Han Chinese population and way of life in modern China as well as other ethnic minority groups have.
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Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
Photos from this training:
The group running our training consisted of 3 senior staff from the CDC, and 4 junior staff/volunteers. Claire, Ben, and myself made our group 10, plus the local village doctor and the village heads who organized and encouraged the villagers to attend.
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
There are 3 villages in the Santaishan area. All three are farming villages:
- Han Chinese village
- Jingpo village
- De’ang village
The Jingpo and De’ang are ethnic minority groups. Larger populations of both of these ethnic groups are found in Myanmar (Burma) more than in China. The Han Chinese have the highest living standards of the three groups, so there are less cultural roadblocks to development for them.
Photos of this village:
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Saturday, January 10th, 2009
Participants
Usually our programme activities involved, besides us, the villagers, CDC experts, a couple of village committee members. But this time there was something special. The village committee members paid real special attention to the programme, so they invited the Mangshi Town’s Party Secretary and vice governors, and Mr. Zhao, head of the Mangshi Town Hospital, brought another head of the hospital and a doctor. The head of the CDC invited the head of Luxi County HIV/AIDS Bureau. The village committee also arranged a singing and dancing for entertainment. Ben also joined the session. Therefore, we had a really big group on our part.
Activities
As usual, we bought small gifts such as towels, tooth-brushes, tooth-pastes, washing pwder, soaps, mosquito coils for the village families as well as some pencils, erasers and exercise books for the village students.
The activity began in the evening around 9 o’clock. The Dai villagers usually finish their supper around 8 o’clock, so when they gathered around the meeting place, it was around 8:30 p.m. But when everything was ready, it was about 9:00 p.m. Nearly 300 villagers participated.
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Mangshi Town
The Mangshi Town, Da-wan Village being one of its villages, is the largest town in Luxi County and even in Dehong Prefecture, enjoying an area of 427.5 square kilometres and having a total population of 140,000, the majority of whom are Dai and Han, intermingled by a small number of Jingpo and De’Ang.
The Dai people living in Myanmar have a different name of Shan and live mainly in the Shan State. In Luxi County, Dehong Prefecture, Dai people are a major ethnic minority group, who live in fertile valley areas such as Mangshi Town, Fengping Town, Zhefang Town and Xuangang Township where crops grow well and transportation is convenient. Therefore, Dai people are relatively rich compared with other ethnic minority groups, even richer than most of the Han people living on farms.
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Claire’s (in-country project mananger) personal account.
On the evening of May 17, Claire together with some CDC people held a very interesting and successful programme activity in a Jingpo village known as Yunqian Village. It is one of the villages under a greater Yunqian Village Committee, which is about 35 km from Mangshi, capital town of Dehong Prefecture, and includes 5 Jingpo villages and 1 De’ang village.
Three Jingpo villages were involved, and totalling 113 households! We had planned to include 87 households in two villages only, because the third village is about 4 km away rom the venue, but unexpectedly many young men and women from those 26 families in the third village came upon the news that we were doing an interesting programme. It was really inspiring!
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