Luang Namtha target villages happy with NCA project operation
(KPL) Twenty six villages in Long district, Luang Namtha province, are satisfied with the project for Drug Demand Reduction and Poverty Alleviation for Ethnic Minorities financed by the Norwegian Church Aid NCA, according to DDRPAEM.
Mr. Sithon Soundala, DDRPAEM Director, said, “We have introduced 47 activities of narcotics demand reduction and poverty alleviation to 26 villages. We have spent US dollars 100,000 on project activities.”
The project’s activities have been implemented in areas of education, health and agriculture, including the expansion of an access to education for children, the improvement of education quality, health education, seasonal disease prevention, and the capacity building of the health workers at village dispensaries and village health volunteers.
In agriculture, the project has promoted food production, the provision of an access to information for ethnic people and environmental protection.
“We focus on raising public awareness on drug menace and the dissemination of article 146 o the Criminal Law, and provincial and district legal documents on narcotics.
The project has said that through its support people in its target villages had given up opium plantation and 40 opium addicts had been rehabilitated.
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