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ActionAid is looking for teams of young Thai filmmakers to make documentaries about the lives of Moken sea gypsies.

> Teams of up to 3 people aged 18-25 years old.
> Three teams will be selected to receive production budgets of 20,000 baht and will spend 7 days living with Moken communities and filming their documentaries.
> The documentaries will be shown at a theatre in Bangkok and an open-air venue in Ranong.
> Find out more and download an application form at www.action-4-change.org from 1-31 March 2006.

Thursday 30th June 2005

The Table provides a summary of target site and progress of the Boat Repairing activity in Phang Nga Province.

[1] This data is in the process of field verification and this is not a confirmed data.

Saturday 30th April 2005

The Table provides a summary of target site and progress of the Boat Repairing activity in Phang Nga Province.

[1] This data is in the process of field verification and this is not a confirmed data.

Thursday 31st March 2005

Phang Nga is the hardest hit province among the six tsunami affected province. As a result of this, there are a number of relief organizations that have been working in the affected area. Specifically to the role of the Save Andaman, the network has been trying to reach out to the communities who have lost as much as 1,440 fishing boats. So far, the network has been working closely with the local community organization in order to set up 6 boatyards. At the moment, 49 boats have been repaired, leaving another 335 to be worked on.

Aside from support boat repairing, the network has also been working with local partners, architects and the academic sector in providing support to the community in developing community's village plan as well as reconstruction of new houses that suits the needs of the community. The community process towards the reconstruction is crucial to ensure that the new houses correspond to the local surrounding area, local culture, traditional and daily needs. At the current stage, 133 houses are being rebuilt in 6 villages in Phang Nga while 1 village is in the process of developing a village town plan where 19 houses will be located.

Sunday 13th February 2005

Save Andaman Network has provided financial support in setting up boatyards and purchasing fishing gears at the total amount of 1,000,000 baht. Initially, the fund was distributed to 2 areas in Tambon Kor Prathong of Ampur Kuraburi which are Ban Thung La Oon (temporary shelter of community in Ban Thung Dab) at the amount of 400,000 baht. The second area was Ban Tha Pa Yaoi at the amount of 300,000 baht and distributed 300,000 baht to Ban Nok Na, Tambon Kor Ko Kao of Ampur Trakuapa. The three areas work differently, but are similar in the sense that the fund will not be given to an individual, but to the local groups to ensure that all affected people receive equal share.

Between 31st January - 9th February, 2005, Save Andaman Network supported operational cost of 1,000,000 baht for setting up boatyards and equipment for repairing and rebuilding boats in Tambon Kor Prathong in Ampur Kuraburi. This amount of money was distributed to the following areas:

• Setting up of a boatyard in Ban Thung Dab in Tambon Kor Pathong of Ampur Kuraburi. The villagers have identified that there are 21 boats that need to be repaired. The repairing process will be conducted in a set which is consists of 4 boats. The village committees will take charge in book keeping for the repairing equipment and repayment of the loans. 400,000 baht was received from Save Andaman Network and so far 126,565 baht has been spent on repairing activities.
• Setting up a boatyard in Ban Tha Pae Yoi in Tambon Kor Pathong of Ampur Kuraburi, the villagers have been conducted a damage survey and checked who have not received support from the government since the 31st January, 2005. The repairing activities have been taken place since 7 February, 2005. Under the total of 300,000 baht received from Save Andaman Network, 103,195 baht have been spent on the activity.
• Setting up of a boatyard in Ban Nok Nar in Tambon Kor Kor Kao, Ampur Tha Kua Par. The yard will proceed in repairing 5 small boats first since the owners are the very poor and have only one boat to sustain their livelihoods. After this, they will move on to repair 6 larger boats (13-19 Kong - local unit for measuring boatsize - medium size boats which cost approximately 60,000 baht - total 360,000 baht). The fund available in the revolving fund is not enough to cover this, thus more fund raising is needed. Apart from this, Save Andaman Network has supported new fishing gears for 12 boats owners which includes materials for producing different types of nets. These materials were brought to the temporary shelter camp so that the community can help each other in producing or repairing the gears. Under the total of 300,000 baht received from Save Andaman Network, 141,985 baht have been spent on the activity.
• In Ban Bang Sak (Thap Thawan), reconstruction of houses and repairing of boats are also on going. However there is a shortage of boat builders.
• In Ban Thung Wa, German tourists have provided support in house and boat repairing.

Tuesday 4th January 2005

General

Greenpeace has provided rubber boats and scuba divers to help recover fishing boat engines for repair.

Baan Nam Khem

The Community Organizations Development Office (CODI), along with volunteers from affiliated networks, is building 500 temporary shelters to house tsunami-affected villagers.

Baan Pakchok and Baan Toongdab

(Tambon Koh Phrathong, Ampur Kuraburi)

These two villages have been completely destroyed. The communities are living in temporary shelters, inland at Ta Toong La-ong and Ta Hinlaad, on sites made available free-of-charge.

The communities are discussing when and where they might establish new permanent settlments.

Baan Ta Pae-yoi

(Tambon Koh Phrathong, Ampur Kuraburi)

This village suffered only damaged fishing boats and fishing gears.

Having previously evacuated to temporary shelters in ampur Kuraburi, the community has now returned to the village. The network is considering ways to facilitate the repair of fishing boats and fishing boat engines.

Tambon Koh Kor Khao

Four villages have been severely affected in this tambon. In the next 2-3 days the network will survey the villages and develop relief plans, to be implemented as soon as the workload in tambon Koh Phratong reduces.