Friday, July 23, 2010

Village Blangphon: Published on 29 Jan 2007


(You can see beautiful houses in the tranquilising foothill, with springs near by)

I went to a village called Blangphon near saree, which is a resettlement colony for Tsunami victims. Tsunami not only killed people, but also wiped out land areas also. So, people who lost their habitation lands in the Tsunami were accommodated in some interior forest areas. One such resettlement site is Blangphon.

CARE is building 232 houses, while BRR is building 74 houses. more than 60% of the houses are complete, and now we are installing septic systems for those houses.

There is a gorgeous spring nearby, and the settlement just looks like a resort. We are building a school, hospital, mosque, market and other buildings. The electricity lines were already laid, and there is an approach road to that area.

Surprisingly, there were roads deep inside the forest, and the people told that its is for illegal logging. All the surrounding area is military land (I dont know why), and people do illegal farming in that area. Since it is illegal, they only look for short term cash crops, which creates immense soil erosion.

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