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The inauguration of Tam 3 village’s communal house

The Tet holiday atmosphere was pervading everywhere. Yet alongside the excitement to celebrate the Tet, the Muong people in Tam village, Thanh Hoi commune, Tan Lac district, Hoa Binh province had another enjoyment of their own, celebrating a new communal house. On January 10th 2012, the new communal stilt house was inaugurated with the happiness …

The situations of community-based ecotourism development in Tu Ne commune, Tan Lac district, Hoa Binh province

The Community-based ecotourism project in Tu Ne and Thanh Hoi communes sponsored by FPSC (the Social Promotion of Cultural Foundation organization, Spain) was launched by CECAD in 2008, with the intention to improve livelihoods of the local people as well as to preserve the indigenous knowledge and cultural identity of Muong ethnic group and to …

CECAD Staff participated in the training course on “Developing community-based ecotourism” in Pu Mat National Park

CECAD Staff participated in the training course on “Developing community-based ecotourism” in Pu MatNational Park, Con Cuong District, Nghe An Province. The Pu Mat National Park situated in three districts, including Anh Son district, Con Cuong district and Tuong Duong district is a core zone of the Western Nghe An Biosphere Reserve, which is one …

Workshop on Discovery and Re-discovery of the Muong Culture through Education in Thanh Hoi Commune

On 9th September 2011, the Center for Environment and Community Assets Development (CECAD), which is under the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations (VUSTA), jointly organised with the Thanh Hoi Middle School a workshop on Discovery and Re-discovery of the Muong Culture through Education in Thanh Hoi Commune to evaluate project activities of the …

Tu Ne’s Veterinarian Group

When husbandry groups were established in Tu Ne commune, an urgent requirement arose for the establishment of a veterinarian group. This is due to the fact that few people in each village knew how to treat the diseases of their animals. Therefore, when the risk and especially an epidemic occurred, they had to ask for help …

Community-based Ecotourism Development in Tu Ne and Thanh Hoi Communes, Tan Lac District, Hoa Binh Province

Community-based ecotourism refers to ecotourism enterprises that are owned and managed by the community. Furthermore, ecotourism implies that a community is taking care of its natural resources in order to gain income through operating a tourism enterprise and using that income to better the lives of its members. Hence, it involves conservation, business enterprise, and …

Initial Success from Mushroom Cultivation Project in Thanh Hoi Commune, Tan Lac District, Hoa Binh Province

Around ten years ago, acacia was identified as having a high economic value, bringing immediate profits to the farmers. This resulted in local people deforesting vast areas of established forest land to grow the acacia instead, which in the short-term produced healthy profit. Unfortunately it didn’t take many years for the acacia to show its …

Completion of the project “Discovery and Re-discovery of the Muong Culture through Education in Tu Ne Commune

On March 25, 2010, the 79th anniversary of the founding of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, which is also a cultural exchange day belonging to the framework of the project “Discovery and Re-discovery of the Muong Culture through Education” was organised in Tu Ne secondary school, Tu Ne Commune, Tan Lac District, Hoa …

Community-based Ecotourism and Muong Cultural Identity Reservation

Modern economic development has placed extraordinary pressure on the Muong people, endangering the preservation of their rich culture and traditional lifestyle. However, community-based tourism provides a compromise between the pressure to participate in modern-day capitalism and the conservation of the Muong cultural identity. Such programs were launched in Tu Ne Commune, Tan Lac District and …

Animal husbandry group

“A buffalo is the most important thing to start farming.”This traditional Vietnamese proverb emphasizes the importance of the buffalo to the livelihood of farmers in Vietnam. In rural areas particularly, farmers dream all their lives of owning a buffalo. However in poor, mountainous areas like Tu Ne commune, that dream often never comes true. Instead, …