Bamboo Village Humanitarian Center is located in Khi Kho Bridge, Xuan Que Commune, Cam My District, Dong Nai Province, 100 km far from HCMC.
Bamboo Village was founded in 2008 by the monk Thich Chieu Bon & now has 230 unfortunate people (includes orphans, disabled people, the helpless elderly people, homeless). Main incomes are from handicraft items. The monk Thich Chieu Bon has built Lang Tre Arts & Crafts village, specializing in the interior and exterior production and decoration.
The Center stands isolated on low hills, next to the green rubber forests with fresh and cool air, quite far from market, so theirs’s living conditions here are very difficult. People live mostly self-sufficient products.
After the survey in May 2019 and witnessing the difficulties of people, the SEN charity – HCMC Branch decided to donate them safe vegetables garden (garden’s square is 15 meters x 30 meters) all works and plant by SEN team as one of our social activities. We started planning the project “Planting trees & vegetables” with the advice of agricultural engineer so that all the basic works has been done well such as: cleared the ground, improved the soil, made vegetable garden’s frame, made auto water system.
On Oct 06, 2019, all staffs and kids of SEN Charity (40 persons) moved to Bamboo Village to plant trees & vegetables. We divided to small groups: turning soil, sowing, watering, fertilizing then planted salad, spinach, perilla, onions, lemongrass, courgette, green bean… to enrich the food source for everyone at the centre.
After a day of hard work, all planned work was completed successfully. Everyone in the center is very excited & happy. The Monk sent regards & thanks to SEN Charity and warmly welcomed us with the delicious vegetarian meal for lunch.
Thanks to this trip, our team understand how the lives of people in difficult situations then they care, share and love more, appreciate what the poor people are.
Some information’s about the Vegetables garden:
# | Information | Detail |
1 | Total Area (Vegetables garden) | 450 Sqm (15×30) |
2 | Kinds of trees & vegetables | salad, spinach, perilla, onions, lemongrass, courgette, green bean… |
3 | An agricultural engineer and 40 staffs and kids of SEN Charity involved |