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  • Organisation

     

    Our organization has a vision to create, establish, and build compassionate communities where people live in dignity through a continuous and participatory process for sustainable development. Namjai Community Association will work to promote sustainable and transformational development in communities and society, and advocacy to change the root causes of poverty and injustice. We will work with and for ethnic communities in cooperation with relevant authorities and development partners. We are guided by05 core values:
    1. Human Dignity. Human dignity encompasses all humanity from the beginning to the end of life, irrespective of class, gender, faith or ethnicity.
    2. Equality. All humans have the right to life, health, shelter, education, work, the freedom to practice faith, and equality before the law
    3. Inclusive Communities. As humans, we are dependent on each other, with rights and responsibilities for our common life
    4. Compassion. As human beings, we need to transform indifference, share love with everyone, and act accordingly.
    5. Accountability. We strive for open and honest communication, transparent practices in all our activities, finance and resources management

    Our understanding of human dignity builds on the belief that all human beings have fundamental value and unique talents to share, irrespective of faith, culture, gender, sexual orientation, age, functional abilities, or ethnicity. Human dignity is the foundation of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which represents the world’s longing for well-being, justice, and security for all peoples and all nations. This inspires us to work on an agenda of gender and rights of the ethnic minorities.

    • Organisation

       

      Our organization has a vision to create, establish, and build compassionate communities where people live in dignity through a continuous and participatory process for sustainable development. Namjai Community Association will work to promote sustainable and transformational development in communities and society, and advocacy to change the root causes of poverty and injustice. We will work with and for ethnic communities in cooperation with relevant authorities and development partners. We are guided by05 core values:
      1. Human Dignity. Human dignity encompasses all humanity from the beginning to the end of life, irrespective of class, gender, faith or ethnicity.
      2. Equality. All humans have the right to life, health, shelter, education, work, the freedom to practice faith, and equality before the law
      3. Inclusive Communities. As humans, we are dependent on each other, with rights and responsibilities for our common life
      4. Compassion. As human beings, we need to transform indifference, share love with everyone, and act accordingly.
      5. Accountability. We strive for open and honest communication, transparent practices in all our activities, finance and resources management

      Our understanding of human dignity builds on the belief that all human beings have fundamental value and unique talents to share, irrespective of faith, culture, gender, sexual orientation, age, functional abilities, or ethnicity. Human dignity is the foundation of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which represents the world’s longing for well-being, justice, and security for all peoples and all nations. This inspires us to work on an agenda of gender and rights of the ethnic minorities.

    • Project

      Today, the elderly are the fastest-growing demographic group in the world due to increase in life expectancy. According to the decree No. 2822/LSW of 2004, the elderly people are the population at the age of 60 and over. Based on the estimation of the current demographic data in the IXth Five Year 2021-2026 Socio-Economic Plan of Lao PDR, the country will enter into the elderly society in 2038. Thus in order to prepare the current young population to be the future elderly with resilient to abuses, they need to understand and address the issues currently faced by the elderly and advocate for policy change towards the elderly. Lao PDR has little study and record on elder abuse for advocacy of policy change. This project is aiming at empowering the youth to influence policy change towards the elderly. This will be achieved by involving the youth to study and address the issues faced by the elderly especially advocate for policy change. The elderly will be the active participants of the project in providing information on their abuses within the families and communities and in raising voices through the youth on how do they want to see policy and social changes towards the elderly. Finally, participation from older adults will be mobilized in order to create empowering intervention strategies that are designed in accordance with the requirements of the elderly and are in line with the principles of respect, dignity, and choice.

      The solutions proposed will be the activities for the following expected outcomes :
      1. The voice of the seniors on elderly abuse are heard by their family members and communities. This will be achieved by the following activities:
      1.1 Baseline survey to screen elderly abuses in the target 40 villages in 3 districts
      1.2 Establishment and training of the youth volunteers in data collection and advocacy for the prevention of the elder abuse
      1.3 Dissemination of findings from baseline survey and policies of the government on the prevention of elder abuse
      1.4 Campaign on the “Respect for Seniors and Life-Long Learning”

      2. Models of care and support for the elderly relevant to the local context carried out by local government, private and community based social services. This will be achieved by:
      2.1 Home visit to the vulnerable elderly people affected by violence and negligence
      2.2 Provision of counselling service to the severely affected elderly by violence (both psychological and physical violence)
      2.3 Support activities in sociological inclusion of the elderly and youth in community affairs

      3. A better and effective policy and programme in providing social assistance and social protection for the elderly are promoted and adopted. This will be achieved by
      3.1 Participation of the youth in different meetings at the district, provincial and central levels in updating policy towards the elderly
      3.2 Support community radio programme on issues related to the elderly
      3.3. Development of information education communication (IEC) materials for advocacy of the rights to protection of the elderly on social media.

  • Project

    Today, the elderly are the fastest-growing demographic group in the world due to increase in life expectancy. According to the decree No. 2822/LSW of 2004, the elderly people are the population at the age of 60 and over. Based on the estimation of the current demographic data in the IXth Five Year 2021-2026 Socio-Economic Plan of Lao PDR, the country will enter into the elderly society in 2038. Thus in order to prepare the current young population to be the future elderly with resilient to abuses, they need to understand and address the issues currently faced by the elderly and advocate for policy change towards the elderly. Lao PDR has little study and record on elder abuse for advocacy of policy change. This project is aiming at empowering the youth to influence policy change towards the elderly. This will be achieved by involving the youth to study and address the issues faced by the elderly especially advocate for policy change. The elderly will be the active participants of the project in providing information on their abuses within the families and communities and in raising voices through the youth on how do they want to see policy and social changes towards the elderly. Finally, participation from older adults will be mobilized in order to create empowering intervention strategies that are designed in accordance with the requirements of the elderly and are in line with the principles of respect, dignity, and choice.

    The solutions proposed will be the activities for the following expected outcomes :
    1. The voice of the seniors on elderly abuse are heard by their family members and communities. This will be achieved by the following activities:
    1.1 Baseline survey to screen elderly abuses in the target 40 villages in 3 districts
    1.2 Establishment and training of the youth volunteers in data collection and advocacy for the prevention of the elder abuse
    1.3 Dissemination of findings from baseline survey and policies of the government on the prevention of elder abuse
    1.4 Campaign on the “Respect for Seniors and Life-Long Learning”

    2. Models of care and support for the elderly relevant to the local context carried out by local government, private and community based social services. This will be achieved by:
    2.1 Home visit to the vulnerable elderly people affected by violence and negligence
    2.2 Provision of counselling service to the severely affected elderly by violence (both psychological and physical violence)
    2.3 Support activities in sociological inclusion of the elderly and youth in community affairs

    3. A better and effective policy and programme in providing social assistance and social protection for the elderly are promoted and adopted. This will be achieved by
    3.1 Participation of the youth in different meetings at the district, provincial and central levels in updating policy towards the elderly
    3.2 Support community radio programme on issues related to the elderly
    3.3. Development of information education communication (IEC) materials for advocacy of the rights to protection of the elderly on social media.

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