Lung Jaeng garden

Name: Lung Jaeng garden
Start: 2022-01-01
End: 2027-12-30
Location: Songkhla, Thailand

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Thailand Farming Manual work Social work Farming Manual work +1 Permanent

About the project

Lung Jaeng garden

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

- SHORT DESCRIPTION: Lung Jaeng is the kind host of our association office and Voluntary Service Community. He is a great life activist who also welcomes volunteers since 2013 through DaLaa to support his social and non-chemical garden 3 km away from the office. Volunteers will mainly join agricultural work and daily life with Lung Jaeng. They have the possibility to join our member activities.

- HISTORY and REASONS OF THE PROJECT: Mr 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 where he grows non-chemical vegetables and fruits. It’s 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 PROJECT:
- Start a new kind of community-based on love, responsibility, harmony and freedom.
- Our members grow in wisdom and our garden produces healthy food.
- We can gather members and children more and more around meaningful volunteer activities.

💼 What the programme involves

Regular work involves nurturing vegetable plants and fruit trees, take care or chicken, compost making, collecting vegetables for our own consumption, growing seeds or nursing young plants, lots of weeding and watering too. The work may be physically hard or repetitive but there is no pressure, and you will have a lot of time to relax.
You will be proposed to join our VSC members’ activities on a regular basis. The activities may be very various from construction to kids’s activities around DaLaa office or to our partners' places. The daily tasks like cleaning and cooking are shared by everyone. Volunteers should feel responsible for the community. It means they will become the hosts when visitors are coming, take part in new volunteer introduction and other activities organized through the Voluntary Service Community. We organize mini work camps where Kok Riang volunteers are included.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Volunteers will live with Lung Jaeng and at the garden. Small huts are provided for volunteers. There is the new house of Lung Jaeng and woof fire kitchen. Regards to the hut for volunteers, there is a thin mattress and mosquito net provided. You may need to bring your own soft mattress if you’re prone to backache or wouldn’t be able to sleep on a hard surface. The bathroom and toilet are separated. For the shower, there’s no hot water and the restroom is local squatting style. The living condition will be very simple and you may find it completely different from your own country.

🍲 Food

Local people eat rice (or noodles) 3 times a day with side dishes like curries, omelettes, local leaves, and vegetables. We get some food from the garden and shop other at the local markets.

📍 About the location

Kok Riang is a village close to Hatyai city. Many people are working there and so the atmosphere around is not as friendly as the one in the countryside. Still, it is more relaxed than the western world. The most rain season is usually from October to December. There are quite some mosquitoes, especially after the rain. There are a lot of ducks and chicken around to wake you up early morning :)

⚠️ Requirements

The volunteers should be ready to stay in a community and to take responsibilities and initiatives to adapt to the local conditions with basic facilities and non-English speaking people. Volunteers should be able to handle a spontaneous working environment and constant changes in the plans. The mentality and way of thinking are very different from the western world.

To ensure your safety, these are some rules for you to follow throughout your stay.
- No drugs (and alcohol in Muslim project sites)
- Volunteers are not permitted to drive cars or any other vehicles with motor in any case.
- Obey Thai law and community’s culture and custom.
Failure to comply is cause for termination from the program.

ℹ️ Additional information

Participation fees:
- 3 first months: 12,000 Baht per month
- 3rdmonth onward : 10,000 Baht/month
Remarks:
- Transportation is used only in case that you have to come to KokRiang for meeting.
- If there’s some money left from each item, it can be spent on other necessary things. In case you would like to buy anything else for the project, please find agreement between the team members, then consult with your coordinator and inform A, our financial person to request for extra budget.
In case you need to leave the project site with your own request, do make sure you pay some money to the villagers or coordinator for gasoline.

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