The first resettlement in BTKC NPA only resettling 211 families, but this resettlement is ten times more than the first resettlement. The majority of the people in the resettlement site they are working as laborers at the border areas and some of them are working in Thailand like construction worker, working in the farmland etc. Most of them they are only relies on the border area, if the border close they are lose their job and they have no food to eat, most of them are food insecurity. The most difficulty that they have so far is work to do; if they don't have any work to do they don't have anything to eat.
In that area they don't have any problem regarding to the water, because they have enough water to drink or using, NPA provided 25 wells in that village and some more well at the public area, and the quality of the water in this village also good quality and the villagers they never complain about the quality of the water too. Up to now many plot that they also drilling their own well at their own plot, because one drilling well is not expensive they only spend about 2000 baht or a bite more that in each well, but the well is not the same as well that provided by NPA.
There are many of the committee that set up by NPA and DWG it's seem to be not working, because they think they not get any benefited from their work, they don't care anymore about community assets. Well committee because they are volunteer to clean the well, especially the 2 of plots that close to the well they are need to look after the well, because these 2 plots they don't pick up the draw because they are volunteer to look after the well. But up to now they not respected their commitment with NPA or with their own community.
Water point committee they have their own fund to repair the well, but when they spend some money to repair the well and they need to collect some of that amount back the water user not distribute. This problem is the courses of making WPC are not commitment with their work. Sometime when the WPC telling the WUG by not allow them to wash the cloths at the well, or asking them help to clean the well but the user not listen to them and sometimes the WUG want to bite WPC too.
This we can see that the WUG they lack of thinking and they think that the well is not belong to them, they think that the well are belong to NPA and they said that when the well is broken NPA will repair it for them, so that they don't need to spend the money on that, this mean that they are not the own of community, they only rely on the organization.
On the other hand WPC they also looking at to get some benefit from the community or from NGO because they saw some committee that they get some benefit like VHR that they get stipend from ZOA, or from the other NGO that they work for.
When NPA did the resettlement in Poi Pet because we want to move all the people from the slump area, but up to now when we move the old people is the new people coming into the same area. For doing this work we can see that if we keep continue to do any more resettlement that still encourage the movement of the people coming into the new area that they think they may get more benefit. The best thing that we can make is educating the people not to sell the land and move from one area to the other one, it's not the solution that can be reduce the poverty within their own family.
For the NGO that working relating to land and resettlement should think and think again and again to find out it's the best way or not that we set up the resettlement site or to relocated the people from one area to the other area. Because when we move the people we should think about the impact of moving the people.
NPA resettlement program that we did in Poi Pet we try to help the people that they live at the slump area from epidemic of cholera, but when we move the old people after that a lot of new people come in and live in the same area. The best way that we can do is
- Work closely with the authorities that working in that area by protecting all the new people those want to move into that area
- Developing that area to be something that people can't build the house
- Before moving the people make sure what we want to do in that area
- The authorities and the government should think again about the structure in that village, structure of commune, police, and other group leader
- The VDC in that village need to structure again to, because now they are not working as VDC they work as authority in the village, and so far they are corruption by using the community fund NGO or authorities should think about the drug us and drug selling in the village too, because many problem are coming from the drug use in the village that many people in the village they complain that NGO and the same as Department of Health should think about the health issues in the village, especially many people they effected with HIV and TB in the village.
- The government should think about the border guards (Police and Custom) because all these people they also make a difficulty to the poor people that make labor like handcart worker.