โCOERR Mae Sarieng Organized Youth Volunteering for Community Clean-up Day in both Temporary Shelters on October 17, 2020: At Ban Mae La Oon, there were 100 youth, of 49 female and 51 male participating; At Ban Mae Lama Luang, there were 111 youth, of 64 female and 47 male participating.

   The aim of this program was to have children and youth spend their school break on useful activities, e.g. learning about risk of improper waste disposal that might have negative consequences and cause diseases. Therefore, youth volunteers for community clean-up would be a good example for healthy community.

   Then youth and children received hand gloves, masks, garbage bags and started to collect and clean the waterway and roadsides. Some other children, youth and adults in the community who had not joined the program at the beginning, also came to help them.

   At the end of the day, children and youth reflected their view that they were proud of being a part of this event that made their community cleaner and healthier, as they had never realized before that improper waste disposal could be very dangerous.

   Finally, they were also happy to see that this useful activity has been welcome by community people, and some have become their new friends.

   On October 30, 2020, COERR Mae Sot Organized Volunteering Clean-Up Day for Ban Mae La Temporary Shelter and Thai Host Communities.

   There were 250 volunteers, consisting of 143 female and 107 male gathering and participating in this cleaning up, starting from Mae La Shelter Zone C to Thai Village nearby.

   COERR Mae Sot staff have earilier organized awareness raising for the volunteers about cleanliness and garbage separation, which they could implement at home and community.

   The activity has resulted in the unity of the displaced persons in Temporary Shelter who volunteered to collect garbages and clean the waterway that flow and passed along the Temporary Shelter and through the Thai Host Villages. The benefit of the event was that both communities would be cleaner and their people become healthier as garbages were removed before flowing to the villages and thus keeping the environment clean and safe.

Youth Volunteering for Community Clean-up Day in Ban Mae La Oon and Ban Mae Lama Luang
Temporary Shelters in Mae Hong Son Province’s Sob Moei District.

Volunteers Cleaned up Waterway from Mae La Temporary Shelter Zone C to Thai Village
in Tha Song Yang District, Tak Province