First Survey

Yesterday Chulalongkorn team went to Lamhin Community. We spent about 4 hours talking to Aree (the leader of Lamhin) and walking around. The purpose was to get the big picture of the community. This is what we learnt from the first survey. 

The drawing above is the rough map of the Lamhin Community.

It has about 30 households and a population of about 200 people.

(we will get exact figures  in the later stage).

Our bridge will be on top of Lamhin Canal (5-6 meters wide) connecting Lamhin community to Riebvaree 17 Road.

Aree informed us about her plan of building a road in front of the community (the red road in the map) along the canal after the bridge is built.

She told us she would write a proposal to government asking for money to build the road, which should be easy after they got the bridge. The road will allow cars to go to almost any parts of the community.

So if we have time and raise enough money, we can even build the road for them. That ‘s something we can think about. But even if we are not capable of doing so, the bridge itself will do the community a lot of good.

The next step is to talk to people in the community and also Minburi district officers.

On the coming Sunday, 9 people of Chula team will be 

divided into three groups to get more information from people in the community. The goal is to find out

1.  How many percents of people want the bridge to be built?

2.  How (exactly) the bridge is going benefit them, in terms of individually?

3. Can the bridge create conflicts? If yes, In what ways?

4. How many people in the community are willing to help us building the bridge?

So if you have any particular questions you want us to ask the people, send them to our email. 

Chula Team

lamhin.chula@gmail.com