[cia-drugs] Akha.org Funding. Stop murderous U.S. drug war in Laos, Thailand

Fri, 16 Dec 2005 13:47:18 -0800


Go to www.akha.org - it is back online. Can donate there.
See the donation info and links in the left column.
Help stop the murderous U.S. drug war in Laos, Thailand, etc..
http://www.akha.org - Please forward widely.
 
 
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Matthew McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 20:46:53 +0700
From: Matthew McDaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Akha Project Funding

For Release.
16 Dec. 2005
 
There are four projects that we are working on in Laos.
 
1. Publication of the Akha Journal 3 for bookstores in S.E. Asia. (Akha journal 2 sold out save for the last 200 copies on stands now. Set up cost $2800 for which we have raised $750 already.
Printing cost will be more when we get to that point. Probably a 5,000 copy print, will be submitted to Amazon etc. To be completed in the next six months, including publishing.
 
2. Humanitarian Aid Project in Laos. Malaria reduction for the Akha.
We are in the investigation and proposal phase of this project. We will continue to need approximately $1000 per month to continue our travel, photograhy, time with consultants and preparation of our paperwork to the Lao government for approval, as well as to funding agencies. This is a complex dance with ngo's who control the larger funds, have the contacts and government networking, as well as the many consultants we rely on to advise us on the technical and data requirements of getting any aid project approved. Projects must last for three years, must benefit the Lao people, must meet budget requirement minimums of $100,000 per year. Three year project.
 
3. Our ongoing Akha Language Corpus project.
The Akha identity is best defined as contained in their language. At this time Akha Literature is oral predominantly, in the words of elders, normally passed down to the young people in this fashion. However, western missions are bent on destroying this literature and identity by taking the Akha children or banning the culture in "converted" villages. For this reason it is crucial that the Akha langauge and literature be committed to paper for these security reasons. As well, the marking of tone is absolutely required to write accurately in Akha. Without a comlete dictionary committed to paper, with the tone marked accurately, there can be no stable basis for Akha written literature. That includes writing that the Akha will do now and in the future. Confusion will not help this tradition. For that reason we must have funding for this continued project in the four countries where the Akha reside in order to continue to add to the manuscripts which we now have to build up a complete library of Akha traditional literature and stories. Even now we have lost many valuable elders and their stories, before we could record them. The forced and coercive practice of western missions who would eliminate 95% of their identity included in the traditional langauge and recitals, is making this problem worse and our response efforts more urgent.
 
For this project we need an initial minimum of $3,000 to $4000 to cover computer costs and a minimum of $1200 per month to distribute to writers, editors and their recording, transcribing expenses. We are doing this over a four country area. At least one year but this project is ongoing.
 
4. Mobilization of Akha for Human Rights Violation Reporting in Thailand. This project requires $1,000 for training Akhas in Thailand to report human rights violations. Distribution of portable cameras, and their use. Training on computers and how to use email to transmit photos and detailed reports. A one year project.
 
As in all other areas of our project, all results and materials from these projects will be available on line.
 
Matthew McDaniel
The Akha Heritage Foundation

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