Green Community Volunteers
ອາສາສະໝັກຊຸມຊົນສີຂຽວ
What we do?
Workshops through a grassroots approach and involving indigenous youth on ways to draw inspiration from cultural traditions and indigenous knowledge to express concerns around environmental change and livelihood impacts. The workshops contain a strong focus on land rights.
2) Use forum theatre as a way to support grassroots communities to articulate the impacts of environmental change in their lives and to encourage people to collaborate to find creative solutions
3) Camping for learning, cultural activities in forest with indigenous youths to revive traditional cultural practices and reinforce the value of indigenous ecological knowledge.
4) Develop community-managed food forests to compensate for food security losses in the areas where often industrial development projects have negatively impacted environments and livelihoods.
5) Work with community members to hold open-air photo exhibitions in forests and along riversides, and through this highlighting the importance for preservation of local culture.
6) Conduct research together with communities.
7) Create model and home gardens on herbal and traditional medicine and organic with community experts on the subjects.