Lawan Vejapikul's Posts - Community life competence2024-03-28T10:14:33ZLawan Vejapikulhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/lawanhttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2523236282?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://aidscompetence.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=lnte3sqv0twg&xn_auth=noACP changed my view (Story by: Satayu Sittikan)tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2011-04-18:2028109:BlogPost:441532011-04-18T09:30:00.000ZLawan Vejapikulhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/lawan
<p><span class="font-size-5"><strong>ACP changed my view</strong></span></p>
<p><em>Story by: Satayu Sittikan, Technical Assistant, Positive MSM from Thai ACP Network</em></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-2">At the beginning when I started working on HIV/AIDS issue with MSM (Men who have Sex with Men) and Transgender who live with HIV and AIDS, I felt that I have a…</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-5"><strong>ACP changed my view</strong></span></p>
<p><em>Story by: Satayu Sittikan, Technical Assistant, Positive MSM from Thai ACP Network</em></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-2">At the beginning when I started working on HIV/AIDS issue with MSM (Men who have Sex with Men) and Transgender who live with HIV and AIDS, I felt that I have a lot of energy and creativity to do my work but when the time went by, I began to think and feel that “Why my work doesn't go as planned” “Why they couldn’t think like I think even if it is just an easy job”, I began to feel that “working like this is wasting my time and my energy and it made me feel tired”.</span></p>
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<p>So, I started to think and to do everything by myself without waiting for my friends, my team and community which made everything goes faster and also goes according to the plan but I found that it made me feel even more tired with less involvement from the team.</p>
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<p>When I got to be part of “AIDS Competence Process” (ACP), got to learn about the concept of community ownership; community owns their own problems and takes care of their own problems, community has capacity to deal with HIV/AIDS and manage it by themselves. I also got a chance to practice tools and to learn about “SALT” as the way of working. These experiences made me realize that everyone has capacity and potential to deal with their own issues just only that sometime people doesn’t know how to start or how to manage them. Realizing these is challenging my work again. Encouraging them to identify their own problems, plan their own actions to ensure a comprehensive management to deal with their own issues, practicing the appreciation of the working process of the team more often created a lot of encouragement and motivation to our “TEAM”, although sometimes there might be some debate, because some comments did not match, but there is a conflict in the work only, apart from that we are still friends who always encourage and give support to each other as ever.</p>
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<p>Lessons from learning and being part of the Thai ACP Network team, we have continuously developed our work based on the way of thinking and the believe that "Community has capacity to manage and deal with HIV / AIDS issues", we have learned how to work in different ways, how to work with various groups and how to work with various people from different networks who works on the basis of the same beliefs. Finally, we also feel that dealing with HIV / AIDS is always a challenging task for us all the time.</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-5"><b>เมื่อ</b> <b>ACP เปลี่ยนแปลงมุมมองของฉัน</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>เรื่องโดย: ศตายุ สิทธิกาน Technical Assistant, Positive MSM, Thai ACP Network</em></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">ในช่วงที่เริ่มเข้ามาทำงานเอดส์ กับกลุ่มชายรักชายและสาวประเภทสอง ที่อยู่ร่วมกับเชื้อเอชไอวีใหม่ๆ ตอนนี้นั้นรู้สึกว่าตัวเองมีพลังและความคิดสร้างสรรค์ในการทำงานอย่างเต็มที่ แต่พอทำงานไปได้สักระยะ กลับเริ่มรู้สึกว่า “ทำไมงานที่ทำมันไม่เป็นไปอย่างที่เราวางแผนไว้” “เรื่องแค่นี้ทำไมเขาคิดกันไม่ออก” รู้สึกเสียเวลาและเสียพลังงานมากกว่าเดิมหลายเท่า จากนั้น ก็เริ่มที่จะ “คิดเอง ทำอะไรเอง โดยไม่รอเพื่อน ไม่รอคนทำงาน” แต่กลับกลายเป็น<i>ว่า </i> “เราเหนื่อยกว่าเดิมอีกหลายเท่า” จริงอยู่ ว่าผลการดำเนินงานเป็นไปอย่างที่เราวางแผนไว้ แต่กลับกลายเป็นว่า การมีส่วนร่วมของทีมลดน้อยลงไปมาก</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">พอได้เข้าไปเป็นส่วนหนึ่งของการพัฒนาศักยภาพในการจัดการด้านเอดส์ ได้เข้าไปเรียนรู้แนวคิดที่มองว่า ชุมชนเป็นเจ้าของปัญหา ชุมชนมีศักยภาพในการจัดการด้านเอดส์ได้ด้วยตนเอง ได้ทดลองและฝึกใช้เครื่องมือและกระบวนการทำงานแบบ SALT ทำให้พบว่า แท้จริงแล้ว ชุมชนเขาก็มีความสามารถที่จะจัดการปัญหาของเขาเองได้ เพียงแต่บางครั้ง เขาอาจไม่แน่ใจ ไม่มั่นใจว่า จะเริ่มต้นจัดการปัญหานั้นอย่างไร ทำให้เราเริ่มรู้สึกถึงความท้าทายในการทำงานอีกครั้ง</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">การได้ช่วยกระตุ้นให้เขาสามารถวิเคราะห์ปัญหาได้อย่างเป็นระบบ ได้รู้จักการวางแผนการจัดการอย่างรอบด้าน และสุดท้ายการได้ฝึกชื่นชมกับกระบวนการทำงานของทีมให้บ่อยขึ้น ทำให้เราพบว่า “ทีม” มีกำลังใจในการทำงานมากขึ้น ถึงแม้ว่าบางครั้ง อาจมีการถกเถียงกัน อันเนื่องจากความคิดเห็นไม่ตรงกันบ้าง แต่นั่นก็คือสิ่งที่เกิดขึ้นในการช่วงของการทำงานเท่านั้น ส่วนนอกเวลางาน เราก็ยังเป็นเพื่อนที่คอยให้กำลังใจกันและกันเหมือนเดิม</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;">บทเรียนที่ได้จากการเรียนรู้และเป็นส่วนหนึ่งของทีม Thai ACP Network ทำให้เราได้พัฒนาตนเองอย่างต่อเนื่อง ผ่านกระบวนการและความคิดความเชื่อ ที่ว่า “ชุมชนมีศักยภาพในการจัดการปัญหาเอดส์” ทำให้เราได้เรียนรู้วิธีการทำงานที่หลากหลาย กับคนหลายกลุ่ม หลายครือข่าย ที่ทำงานอยู่บนฐานแนวคิดแบบเดียวกัน ทั้งหมดนี้ ทำให้เรายังรู้สึกว่า งานเอดส์ยังเป็นงานที่ท้าทายกับเราอยู่ตลอดเวลา</span></p>
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<p> </p>How SALT and Religion can explain each other?tag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2009-12-01:2028109:BlogPost:155342009-12-01T18:30:00.000ZLawan Vejapikulhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/lawan
Last month (Nov09), we had a good chance to welcome people from 2 countries to experience <b>“ SALT ”</b> through our <b>SALT Visit Programmes</b> in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand (2days programme). The first group of participants came from Myanmar with 10 people from <i><b>"Burnet Institute, Myanmar"</b></i> and <i><b>"CARE International, Myanmar"</b></i> plus another 2 people from the organisation who works in the border area between Thailand and Myanmar, <i><b>"SMRU (Shoklo Malaria Research…</b></i>
Last month (Nov09), we had a good chance to welcome people from 2 countries to experience <b>“ SALT ”</b> through our <b>SALT Visit Programmes</b> in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand (2days programme). The first group of participants came from Myanmar with 10 people from <i><b>"Burnet Institute, Myanmar"</b></i> and <i><b>"CARE International, Myanmar"</b></i> plus another 2 people from the organisation who works in the border area between Thailand and Myanmar, <i><b>"SMRU (Shoklo Malaria Research Unit) - PMTCT Programme”</b></i> (Maela Refugee Camp in Mae Sod, Tak Province, Thailand). The second group came from Indonesia with 6 women from <i><b>“Layak Foundation”</b></i>. These 2 programmes were very exciting for me, I've learned a lot from both groups and of course, we've learned a lot from the communities we visited.<br />
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In the programmes, we visited the communities where they are applying SALT as their way of thinking/working and also linking it to their religion’s beliefs. For me, I found it is very interesting to listen to other people explaining about our beliefs in the different ways, especially from a region’s aspect.<br />
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<i><b>The 1st programme</b></i> was organized on 9-10 November 2009 for 12 people from the Burmese Organisations. We went to <b><u>Jedi Maekrua Temple</u></b> in San Sai District, Chiang Mai Province to meet with the representatives from the Committee of the HIV/AIDS Working Group in Jedi Maekrua Community (religion leaders, community leaders and volunteer workers that included PLHA). The HIV/AIDS Working Group in this community was initiated by the Buddhist Monk, <i><b>Phra Kru Samuhhavichern Khunnadhammo</b></i>, by turning a Buddhist Temple, Jedi Maekrua Temple, as a center for the working group. Their strategy to promote and expand the network was to start working and coordinating with community leaders and involve in the group and let them play the role of influencing more and more people in community including PLHA (People Living with HIV/AIDS) to see the benefits of having this working group in the community and start to join the activities.<br />
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This temple has been developed for being used as a <b><i>"Community Faith-Based Center"</i></b> with the supports from the Buddhist Religion Network in Chiang Mai Province who is part of the Interfaith Network on AIDS in Thailand (INAT) under their Global Fund Project.<br />
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During the visit, we first listened to <i><b>Phra Kru Samuhhavichern</b></i>, a Buddhist’s monk from Jedi Maekrua Temple who is a leader of this center, for a short briefing about the center before we split into 2 small groups; one group discussed with the religion leader and some community leaders and another group discussed with the volunteer group, including PLHA. I was with the first group, discussing with all the leaders. In the discussion, we’re all exciting and asking so many questions. Our friends from Myanmar were very impressed by the role of the Buddhist monks at this center and how the Buddhist’s principles/teachings helped community people to understand better about HIV/AIDS.<br />
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<i>“In Myanmar, we never see a monk working on HIV/AIDS issue and it will be a surprise if we see a monk working with many women like this”</i>, one participant from Myanmar shared during the discussion.<br />
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<i>“Is there any people criticize or think that this should not be a role of a Buddhist monk?”</i>, another participant from Myanmar asked.<br />
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Phra Kru Samuhhavichern smiled and answered gently <i>“I think differently and look at it in the opposite way. I think it is a monk’s defect if there is some issue emerging in our community or some problem attacking our community people. As a monk, I believe that I have a responsibility to ensure that people in my community will behave good, think good, do good and if there are some people slip or got lost in a bad path such as addicting to drugs, enchanting in risk behaviors, getting HIV/AIDS and I still don’t care and don’t feel that I should do something, I will take this as my defect.”</i> This is the inspiration for him to start acting and doing something to face with community’s issues together with his people in the community.<br />
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He also shared one of his beliefs which I found it is very interesting and relevant to what we believe in the Constellation. He mentioned that <i>“We are all having a limited opportunity, we are all a victim of life crisis and we are all still far from the Nirvana, the way to ending our sufferings/problems, including me. What and how different we practice and spend our life will put us in the different level of the distance towards to Nirvana. This make us realize that we still need to develop and improve ourselves to be able to deal with our own problems or our own life crisis.”</i> For me, this is the same as what we believe; <i>there is no expert!!</i>, but he just explained it in a different way.<br />
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<i>“What we do to help our people is not just giving materials, objects or money to them but it is about helping them to develop, to improve and to be better by using a process that can build their own intellectuals. Giving Dhamma will encourage their self-learning which they can adapt what they have learned to manage their own issues/problems by following the religion’s teachings and principles. Once they gone through this process and manage to find their own way to solve their problems, we will be there to appreciate what they have done which will stimulate and encourage them to do better. Their learning can also be shared to their friends, their family, and others so that other people can also learn from them and we will still there to support the development which will be continued in our community.”</i> , Phra Kru Samuhhavichern summarized at the end of the discussion.<br />
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Even I’m Buddhism and I have heard about Dhamma, Buddhist’s Principles and Buddha’s Teachings since I was born but this is the first time I saw them in practical and were explained clearly by a monk who is in my perception is the person who always talks about something which is impossible to understand and impossible to see in our human's life. This visit totally changed my perceptions about Religion, Buddhism and Buddhist’s Monk. I am now really interesting and exciting to explore more about the teachings and the principles in each religion to see how we can adapt them to explain our human’s life. My dream is not about reaching the Nirvana or getting out of human’s problems as mentioned as a highest goal in Buddhism but it is just about trying to become a better person and I believe that this is something we can do to contribute to our religion and to improve our qualities of life.We cannot underestimate the power of SALTtag:aidscompetence.ning.com,2008-11-14:2028109:BlogPost:35452008-11-14T04:06:12.000ZLawan Vejapikulhttps://aidscompetence.ning.com/profile/lawan
It is more than 1 year already after my second visit to people from Pontianak and Singkawang during the AIDS Competence workshop. Before flying to Indonesia, we had some discussion on email with some people from the local team members there about “What’s going on?” and “What should we focus this time?” What we got from the discussion seem to make us worry about the process this time because we plan to introduce some new tools and the build some knowledge assets together. The feedback from the…
It is more than 1 year already after my second visit to people from Pontianak and Singkawang during the AIDS Competence workshop. Before flying to Indonesia, we had some discussion on email with some people from the local team members there about “What’s going on?” and “What should we focus this time?” What we got from the discussion seem to make us worry about the process this time because we plan to introduce some new tools and the build some knowledge assets together. The feedback from the local team in each city was not so well, not much progress has been reported. During that time we were not sure whether we will be able to build up the knowledge assets or not with the less experiences but we were still believe in <b><i>“human capacity”</i></b> and <b><i>“community’s strength”</i></b>. So, we’ve just let it go as the planned agenda.<br />
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The first day, we gave the space for the participants to share their experiences on “What went well?” and this was the moment when we realized that a lot of progresses happen in these 2 cities (Pontianak and Singkawang). A lot of energies had been floating in the air and covering all over the meeting room. The spirits were even more powerful. At the end of the day, we were all very exhausted after trying to catch up all of the energies and spirits. We ended our long day with the AAR among the facilitation team. Novi said about her best lesson learn of that day which was really hit me; she said <i><b>“we cannot under estimate the power of SALT and how it stimulates the enthusiasm of the people who has been experienced it”</b></i>.<br />
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This is the most important thing to prove that everything needs to be started from our own self. The belief is also the same. <b><i>“If you want people to believe in your capacity, you also have to believe in their capacity because we are all the same human being”</i></b>.<br />
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Note: More details and more stories from this event, you can find in this report<br />
<a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2540670953?profile=original">20081113 AIDS COMPETENCE IN INDONESIA FINAL.pdf</a>