Tibet Heritage Fund Local
Builders and Residents & ACHR
THF holds
regular meetings with local residents and building teams to review and
plan building activities. The visiting ACHR team attended one of the
meetings.
ACHR's role in this exploratory visit with THF was to exchange ways in
which community participation is working in other Asian cities. We were
also able to put THF into contact with similar processes in Asia including
projects in Baktaphur, Nepal and and the older sections of Karachi,
Pakistan and Bangkok Thailand. Follow up is suggested with exchange visits
to these processes through ACHR's TAP programme. .
Local residents request THF to speed up
the building process so that families can move back into their houses.
The local administrator suggests
builders try a different type of white paint as the one used is coming
off as a white powder.
The residents suggest paying the workers
by product rather than weekly and this would speed up the work.
THF staff listen carefully and throw many
of the problems back at the community, to devise local solutions.
Local Staff of THF answers questions of
Fr Jorge Anzorena one of the members of ACHR's exploratory team visiting
Lhasa
.
Here a group of workers on a similar
local government housing improvement programme hold a lunch break
meeting on their progress.
Another of ACHR's exploratory team
Prafulla Pradhan has had extensive experience in Kathmandu and the World
Heritage site at Baktaphur in Nepal. Exchange visits have occurred
since.
THF also accepts volunteer staff from
Europe including Young Professional architects and engineers. Here, a
mixed team of THF, ACHR and YP's inspect a new sewerage process.
