CARING FOR YOUNG REFUGEES o Refugee Younレポートカンポジア伝統の美しい観物を織物センターの集中ブログラムカンポイ・トングナムインタビュー東北夕イ、スリンで保育所経営をするラビアプ・サーリムさん運載部さ合う心といのち[カンポジアの男の子、チア]山崎尚枝エッセイ支援者と現場を結ぶ。ブノンベン駐在一年を経て辛村里香最新情報アーコス、ＣＹＲに人材支援「歌絵本募金」寄せられる
1998年3月 No.45  目次
2 Report Beauty of Traditional Weaving of Cambodia Intensive Program at CYK Weaving Center Khampoy TONGNAM 6 Interview In Surin Province, Northeast Thailand Rabjeb SAELIM Manages a Child Care Center 8 Series Reverberating Heart and Life "Chea, a Boy in Cambodia" HYoshie YAMAZAKI 10 Essay Serving as a Link between Supporters and the Scene of Activities—After a year in Phnom Penh Rika MINEMURA 12 Latest Developments Support for CYR by ayus Campaign for “Cambodian Song Book” Continues arin力日許可なティ
物件Sふ番。そのカーメンミ語テンポンネ) (CYK : Caring for Young Khmer CYRのカンポジア事業変施部門) 2子どもたちの明日No.45 Mar.1998 Children, Our Future
Khampoy TONGNAM Weaving Program Coordinator, CYK (Caring for Young Khmer/CYR in Cambodia) There are beautiful fabrics which Cambodians have been weaving for many years....fine cotton check called Kroma and silk Ikat weaving called Hole.  Kroma is a necessity in daily life for use as towels and for wrapping.  Hole is a luxury item used for formal wears such as skirts and dresses.  Tie-dyed wefts are woven to create flower and other patterns.  Village women adorn themselves with beautiful silk Ikat for weddings and other special occasions.家の床下にある織り提（バンキアン村） Loom placed under the raised floor (Beng Khyang Village) Weaving used to be a side work for Cambodian village women to engage between household chores and raising children.  The long lasting civil war, however, has destroyed looms, and weaving has disappeared in many villages.  Elderly villagers are reminded of old times when they see a loom placed beneath the raised floors. In order to preserve the traditional art of weaving and to help women earn income, we started a weaving class in Prey Ta Toch Child Care Center near Phnom Penh in 1993.  Rice is a main crop for most villages in this area.  There are many families with lots of children, and while all the family members work in the field during the harvest season, men go to cities to earn extra income during the low season. Kroma weaving was taught to those who participated in the class.  Those who had mastered the basic weaving skills were taught to use natural dyes and weave silk Ikat. Silk Ikat Weaving and Dyeing with Natural Dyes at the Weaving Center Last May, we opened the Weaving Center on the second floor of CYK Office in Phnom Penh after closing the village class in order to start a 2-year intensive program.  Looms are placed on the wide verandah and the roof top space covered by a newly installed roof.  The village class often had to be suspended because trainees would stop attending the class during the harvest season and some would even drop out altogether, Now, the trainees live in the Center where I also live and receive training from 7:30 am to 5:00 pm with a 2-hour lunch break on weekdays.  They are offered stipend, meals and board so that they can devote themselves to training without worrying about their family. AUM Khun, who is from Takeo Province which is famous for weaving, and I teach the class.  I am from Surin Province in the northeastern part of Thailand and learned weaving with my sisters from our mother.  I speak Khmer because my home is near Cambodia.  Khun teaches weaving, particularly tie-dyed silk Ikat for which Takeo Province is famous, and I teach dyeing with natural dyes.
Future Weavers
There are five trainees mainly in their late teens from villages and three short term trainees accepted from the Ministry of Women's Affairs.  We focus on the most difficult techniques such as setting warps, tying and dyeing threads, and matching patterns for Ikat on the loom.  NHIM Sokhon (19) who came across weaving 3子どもたちの明日No.45 Mar 1998動いけ"I am so happy to receive training in weaving, which I love", Sokhon says.
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美しい模様のホール(絹紺)を織るためには、くくり染めが里要なポイント。横糸にする絹糸を束ね、柄のパターンに合わせてひもで縛り、染料に浸ける。縛った部分には地の色が残り模様ができる。多色の複雑な模様の場合は、薄い色から順に「くくり」と染めを繰り返し、染め重ねていく。
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草木染は、よく知られているインディゴ（藍）などの他に、黄色を出すには、熱帯果物のジャックフルーツの木やバナナの築を、薄紫色を出すにはジャンポラン・プラムという果物の実を使う。カイガラムシのつくる巣（ラック）からはピンクがかった鮮やかな赤が出る。 standing against the door. (Takeo Province)子どもたちの明日No.45 Mar.1998 Children, Our Future for the first time in CYK’s weaving class says, "I am glad to receive training in weaving, which I like.  Although weaving is not simple, I will study hard to become a professional.  Weaving is a traditional skill and I would like to master it and hand it down to future generations". It is 10 months since the start of the intensive program.  The trainees are making visible progresses as they devote their time to weaving except for meals and recess, without having to commute or do housework.
Weaving on Their Own
The target is to have the trainees who complete the program go home and weave on their own.  If they can weave four meters of silk Ikat, they will carn the net income of about 30 US dollars, which is as much as the salary of a child minder at CYK's child care centers. They usually sell to merchants who come to the village, who in turn sell the item at about 60 dollars.  CYK purchases them for re-sale to foreign visitors and in Tokyo. Sokhon and Chanry (23) who are from the same village learn dyeing and silk Ikat weaving.  After they complete the training, they will be able to weave four meters of silk Ikat in a month.  These two appear as if they would continue weaving even after they return to their native village.  The weaving project for cash income may be called a success only when the trainees return to village, stay home, continue weaving and earn income by it.タケオ県出身のオム・クン先生。とんな難しい柄でもぎれいに目が揃う。 Ms. AUM Khum from Takeo Province.  Her wefts and warps match each other exactly no matter how complex the pattern is.
Silk Ikał Weaving
In order to weave Hole (silk Ikat) with beautiful patterns, tie-dyeing is essential.  Wefts are tied at selected places with dye-resistant strings and dipped in a dye.  The tied portions retain the original color and when woven with warps, patterns are created.  For multi-colored complex patterns, tying and dyeing are repeated alternately starting with the palest color and going on to darker colors.
Dyeing with Natural Dyes
They use natural dyes such as indigo for blue, barks of jack fruits and banana leaves for yellow, a fruit called Jambolam plum for purple, and lac (from the nests made with secretions of lac insects) for red color. The process of tying, dyeing and untying is repeated. 5
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SAELIM and DEC staff visited the ainees after two months since the training. Last April, DEC* (CYR in Thailand) held a two-day training program for making teaching materials for the first time in Surin Province.  The province is located in the northeastern part of the country and adjacent to Cambodia as Srakeaw Province where DEC carries out its activities.  The area is under the direct influence of Cambodia's volatile political situation and often witnesses increased influxes of refugees. Training for making “teaching materials appropriate for development stages of children" was held in a temple in Ban Truat Village and participated by 28 people including child minders in the province and members of the local committee of child care center.  DEC staff gave lecture and taught how to make teaching materials.  Ms. Rabieb SAELIM (38) who is originally from this village acted as a liaison in locating the place for training and for participants.  While working for a Thai NGO called North-East Thailand Foundation (NET), she operates a child care center. *DEC (Development and Education for Children)
Why Do You Work with NET Foundation?
Because I am interested in rural development, a new area for me, and it has different target groups.  Until 1992 when I started working for NET, I had worked as a child minder for 14 years. Because I liked the work so much, I continued working as a child minder even though the salary was very low. Then I started working for NET, which is also a kind of service for the society. At NET, I work for Marketing/Public Relations in the Training Center.  NET has a solid and effective system and works according to the plan.  The staff are more independent because we have no boss.  Unfortunately, NGOs have not yet taken firm roots in the society and have only a limited number of supporters financially or in activities. You Opened a Child Care Center in Your Home. I have a child care center on the first floor of my home in Surin for children aged zero to four.  Their parents work for companies and government offices. Sometimes children stay with us till nine o’clock at night when their parents have to work late.  Currently, there are four child minders looking after 16 children. I always wanted to open a child care center even while I was working as a child minder myself.  It is fun to spend every day with children at my own home. How Does Currency Crisis Affect the Society? Prices have risen in the city as well as in the village. Rice cost 17 bahts per kilo last August, but now it is 27 bahts.  Some brokers bought rice and paid with forged money. The northeast area is not blessed with good climate or rich soil.  During the past few years, we had few rains, less rice harvest and many people went to the cities to earn extra money.  There are hardly any jobs.  Two parents at my child care center lost their jobs recently, although their children still continue coming to the center.  The situation may get worse in the future. 7 「幼い難民を考える会」が活動を始めて18年。タイの難民キャンプ、タイやカンボジアの村々の子どもたち、そして日本に定住したベトナム、ラオス、カンボジアの人たちとともに歩んできました。それぞれの現場で、子どもたち自身がもつ「育つ力」に励まされながら様々なかたちで会の活動に携わってきた人々が、 "いま"をどう生き、何を考えているかをご紹介します。 s
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Reverberating Heart and Life
It is 18 years since CYR started. We have been working with children of Refugee Camps in Thailand and Thai and Cambodian villages, and with resettlers in Japan from Viet Nam, Laos, and Cambodia. We shall see and hear how people who have been involved in CYR activities in various ways live and think "now" as they have been encouraged by the inherent power of growing children.
Chea, a Boy in Cambodia
Yoshie YAMAZAKI
Ms. Yoshie YAMAZAKI (40) had worked as a nurse, a worker at an institution for handicapped children, and a member of Japan Medical Team (JMT) for Cambodian refugees in Thailand before working for a year for CYR in Khao I Dang Refugee Camp in 1984.  Between 1990 and 1993, she worked for resettlers in Japan as a staff at CYR Tokyo Office.  She has lived with her husband in Italy since 1995.
Unexpected Telephone Call from
Japan
What strange ways the paths of people cross each other!  It was the year before last that I started living in Sicily and was faced with a myriad of problems trying to adjust to a strange environment when a Cambodian resettler in Japan telephoned me.  “You must be having a hard time in a strange place.  Are you being discriminated?  Please do persevere even though it may be painful". He was concerned about me because of his own personal experience.  Hearing him thus speak, my heart was filled with gratitude and compassion for his and his family’s hardship in their homeland and adopted land during the past ten-odd years. When I was working at the Refugee Camp, Cambodians used to say to me “How I envy you, Yoshie.  You have a country and a home to go back to".  The time has since passed, and I now live in a country far away from Japan.  My father is dead and my mother who used to wait for me at home passed away last Khao I Dang Refugee Camp (1985) year. When I think of Japan where my father or mother no longer lives, I feel emptiness in my heart.  It is of course not the same as the emotions of refugees who had to leave their country after innumerable hardship, but I cannot help but overlapping my present "rootless" state with those of their life.
Encounter with Chea
I visited the Refugee Camp as a member of JMT for the first time 15 years ago and met Chea, who was eight years old then.  He lost his mother and brothers by the civil war and had been evacuated with his father to a “refugee village” at the Thai-Cambodian border.  Because of his father’s acute illness which required immediate surgery, they were brought to the Camp. As he massaged the hand of his father who was in agony, he shed tears from his big eyes.  He would again and again leave his bed and stand besides his father until morning.  As I watched him, I felt acute compassion for their pain as another human being.  I realized how I had been alienated from the pains and sufferings of Cambodians even while I spent hectic days working as a nurse. After three weeks, Chea was sent back to the border village where fighting was still continuing without even having a chance to say good-bye to me.  I also had to leave and go back to Japan most reluctantly.  When I read in a Japanese newspaper about the attack on Chea's village and many casualties, my father saw me worrying and comforted me, “Just as you think of Chea, he will think of you often.  He will say to himself there used to be a big sister and she used to play with me.  This is just as well".
My Thoughts Evoked by Gypsy
Children
I have not met Chea again, but I met many "Cheas" through my work at CYR. I am sure that they have grown up in their home country or in adopted lands and sometimes remember fondly their days spent in the Preschool Center. The start for me was the time I spent with Chea, a Cambodian boy, but CYR did the rest in nurturing me.  Encounters with many people and precious experiences shared by them had given me opportunities to learn diverse ways of thinking.  I feel that I am supported by these times as I took "steps of independence" in a foreign country.  As I remember Chea's smiles when I see Gypsy children who are working under the dreary winter skies on the streets of Palermo, I sincerely pray and hope that a brighter tomorrow will come to all. 9
CYKプノンペン事務所所長客村里香理設協力をした小学校の開校式であいさつをする華者
Author at the opening ceremony of an elementary school, the construction of which CYR supported引率亿刊を。そこ半さは潤森や開はないや父学ソネの94 H EX月海か10子どもたちの明日No.45 Mar.1998 Children, Our Future数
—After a year in Phnom Penh— Rika MINEMURA Liaison Officer, CYK (CYR in Cambodia) Thirteen years ago, I visited CYR office with a newspaper clipping in my hand and saw many women there.  Thinking of future of young people and attracted by these women's enthusiasm and cheerfulness, I resigned from the company I was working and started my job at CYR Office. I now work in Cambodia, because I wanted to reconfirm how the thoughts for children of the Japanese supporters of CYR would bear fruits at the site of our activities.
Innocent Children at Play
When I transferred to Cambodia a year ago. I was accompanied by my sons aged one and two respectively.  Whenever we visited Phnom Penh Office, they seemed never to tire with playing with toys and teaching materials on display.  Wooden puzzles, bamboo musical instruments, colorful table of Cambodian letters haveン文字と絵のカードを合わせるMatching Game of Cambodian alphabets 11子どもたちの明日No.45 Mar.1998 Children, Our Future all been made by CYR since more than 10 years ago. These were full of excitement and attraction for children. My boys treasure the song and picture book of Cambodia published last year by CYK.  They look at beautiful pictures and sing simple songs tirelessly. As I watch them play with toys and teaching materials which Thai and Cambodian children have used for many years, I feel strongly the universality of what CYR has achieved.
Expectations Mount for CYK in
Cambodia
Since the armed strife in July last year, overseas aids and investments for Cambodia have been frozen and the government's financial problems are becoming increasingly serious.  For this reason, the government is looking forward to NGOs with expertise in the area of education. With its six years' activities in village child care centers, CYK was asked by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports to conduct a follow-up study for children who attended child care centers.  Almost half of the first graders in Cambodian elementary schools must repeat the first grade. The Ministry wants to find out differences in the attendance record and scholastic achievements between children who attended child care centers and those who did not, and to examine how the preschool education should be offered.  Our achievements in village child care centers are gradually taking roots and showing signs of spreading country-wide through the government.
Faced by Financial Distress
CYR is faced by unprecedented financial distress.  When I went to Japan last year to collect funds for additional printing of the popular song and picture book and for making teaching materials, I visited support organizations and companies with the staff of Tokyo Office and asked for their donations.  Despite the economic recession, we successfully raised 2 million yen over the year end. I returned to Cambodia with this joyful tidings.  Even though CYR's destitution remains unchanged, I believe we can gradually realize our wish of sending copies of the picture and song book and teaching materials to child care centers, kindergartens and elementary schools all over Cambodia in response to their government's request.  I continue working encouraged by the joy of serving as a link between many people who support CYR and CYR's experiences and techniques of many years to help young people to become independent.
Support for CYR by ayus
Buddhist Network for International Cooperation, ayus, chose CYR as a recipient of its support of personnel expenses for a public relations staff for three years.  The network was established in March, 1993 as an NGO to support NGOs.  Buddhists involved in the issues of world's poverty and environment have formed the organization, and support personnel expenses of other NGOs, hold seminars and develop teaching materials. This year, they chose three groups including CYR as the recipients of their grants for "Protecting life and rights of children in overseas countries". Whereas most NGO groups support overseas activities, ayus supports human resources within Japan by paying for their expenses in order to reinforce NGO organization and independence.  CYR shall endeavor to effectively implement their public relations activities in Japan and to increase its membership to thereby solidify its financial foundation.
Campaign for “Cambodian Song Book” Continues
The campaign for raising the fund for children's song and picture books was started with publication of Cambodian picture book of songs "My Dog, Arkee", and taken up by mass media.  As of February 15, the contribution amounted to ¥1,563,471.  CYR will print additional copies, and publish the second collection of songs this year. Another round of contributions for publication of the third collection will be solicited.
「歌絵本募金」寄せられる
カンボジアの歌を集めた絵本「ほくの犬ア前号で紹介したが、同時に開始した「歌絵本を贈るキャンペーン」は、新聞等にも取り上げられ、2月15日現在、寮金額は1.563.471円に達した。CYRでは、この協力を得て今年、絵本の増刷と第二集の出版を行なう。今後は第三集の出版に向けて、さらなる支援を呼びかける。
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YR News No.45行日■ Published March 5, 1998発行人■ Publisher深水正時Masakatsu Fukamizu編集責任者■ Editorial Director関口時失Harumi Sckiguchi翻訳■ Translationに共学を「 Sachiko Ohi ■ Printing EORI Sanko Printing Co., Ltd.発送■ Circulation CYR Volunteers定価200円(会員は会員に含む) Price 200yen (included in member fee) Membership Fee per year ￥10,000 -学生会員 Student member正会員 Regular member ¥ 3,000 ¿¿¿¿¿¿( ¿¿ í Supporting member (Organization/Corporation) ¥30,000賛助会員（個人） Supporting member (Individual)   規定なしAny amount下記の口座に「入会」とご明記の上ご送金ください。 Please send the money to the following account;口座番号 00110-8-36227発便振替Postal Transfer: PO Acct. No.00110-8-36227第一勧業銀行広尾支店　普通　1280817 Bank Transfer: Daiichikangyo Bank Hiroo Branch  Savings Acet. No. 1280817幼い難民を考える会は、難民になったカンボジアの子ともたちがけんめいに生きようとする姿に触発され、1980年に組織されました。1992年までタイの難民キャンプで保育センターを運営してきました。現在はタイとカンポジアの農村で、子どもたちが健やかに育つことのできる鳩所づくりをめざして、主に村の保育所を中心に、子どもと女性を対象とした活動を続けています。 Head Office : 6-2, Minamimotomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0012, Japan : Red Rose Court #C-1, 110/6 Pradipat Rd., Bangkok 10400, Bangkok Thailand  279-8837 Phnom Penh: No.98 St.432 Sangkat Toul Tumpoung II, Khan Chamkar Mon, Phnom Penh, Cambodia   11 23-720849東京事務局〒160-0012　東京都新宿区南元町6-2 ☎ 03-3353-9947  FAX 03-3353-9739は第五六「いい