Hopefully, Dinh Huong village will no longer be so isolated!
Dinh Huong village (Tam Dinh commune - Tuong Duong district) is perched precariously on a mountainside, facing the Nam Non river and surrounded by mountains and forests on three sides. Of the more than 100 households in the village, the majority are impoverished. Young men work as hired gold panners or farmers, women gather wild vegetables for meals, and children wander around the village...
(NAO) -Dinh Huong village (Tam Dinh commune - Tuong Duong district) is perched precariously on a mountainside, facing the Nam Non river and surrounded by mountains and forests on three sides. Of the more than 100 households in the village, the majority are impoverished. Young men work as hired gold panners or farmers, women gather wild vegetables for meals, and children wander around the village...
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Along with food and clothing shortages, the number of students dropping out of school in the village has been increasing recently. This school year, at least 20 secondary school students have dropped out midway because the journey to school is too difficult. Some students are luckier because their parents send them to secondary school in Khe Bo, but because they are young and have to live in boarding school, their studies are affected. Ms. Lo Thi Kim, whose son Lo Manh Dung is in secondary school, sadly said: "In primary school, he was an advanced student every year, but this year he's in 6th grade, and the school is all the way in Khe Bo, so he has to miss a few days a week to go home, and he's not getting the advanced student award anymore..."
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For over a year now, since hearing the news that Dinh Huong would be one of five villages to be relocated because it's located within the reservoir of the Khe Bo hydroelectric dam, all efforts to change their lives have almost come to a standstill.
In a short time, thanks to the Khe Bo hydroelectric project, a concrete bridge will be built across the river, and a road running along the other side will also be opened. Tuong Duong district, together with the hydroelectric project management board, is planning a resettlement area using an on-site relocation method, gradually soliciting public opinion, publicly disclosing the items to be compensated, the compensation value, and signing commitments with the compensation committees... Mr. Vi Hoi - Vice Chairman of the district, added: "We are trying to ensure that all people subject to relocation can quickly stabilize their lives in their new homes. The important thing is to preserve the identity and soul of the Thai ethnic people in this region."
Text and photos: My Ha
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