KOK RIANG

SHORT DESCRIPTIONKok Riang is the name of the village our organization office is situated in South Thailand. We are kindly hosted on the land of Lung Jaeng, a great life activist who also welcomes volunteers since 2013 through DaLaa to support his social and non-chemical garden 3 km away. Volunteers will mainly join gardening work with Lung Jaeng and will be included in our member activities.HISTORY and REASONS OF THE PROJECTMr Suthep Suwankrajang known as Lung Jaeng, the host of the project has a strong social network and he is involved in voluntary work, social activism and forest conservation for many years. Since 2013, he has been starting a big garden, 3km from his home with DaLaa volunteers and friends and built there a new house. He grows non-chemical vegetables and fruits. Its like a social garden which is also used for tea meetings, universities camps or just having a meal together with friends. Everyone is welcome at this learning space to grow healthy food and to exchange ideas.Since 2015, DaLaa office was built on his homeland and nowadays we became a community sharing everyday life. We called this place Voluntary Service Community (VSC) and we organize quite some activities like introduction and gathering for our middle and long term volunteers, mini work camps with our member family and children camps.AIMS of the PROJECT1- Start a new kind of community-based on love, responsibility, harmony and freedom.2- Our members grow in wisdom and our garden produces healthy food.3- We can gather members and children more and more around meaningful volunteer activities.