SEA Junction aimed to highlight the urgent need for a better understanding of the multiple ways people experience poverty and the importance of assessing with the concerned people, the often – overlapping deprivation they face.
Photo by Tipakson Manpati
Event poster
Sign in time
Participants started filling the room
Ready to start
Narumol Nirathron introducedSEA Junction and panelists
First speaker, May Thazin Aung,Research Associate, Stockholm
Environment Institute (SEI)
People dependency onnatural resources in Chindwin
river in Chin State, Myanmar
Local livelihood
Development has been akey philosophy for
poverty alleviation
Development project hasimpacts on people’s daily live
Introducing, Boonlert Visetpricha,Assistant Professor Faculty
of Sociology and Anthropology,
Thammasat University
Boonlert conducted a research onhomeless people in the Philippines
Boonlert spent 14 monthson the sidewalk
Homeless people indifferent places
Deprivation of basicneed: Food
Lack of shelter
Living far away fromtheir family
Being excluded fromlabor market
Being exploited bytheir employers
Being blamed
It is not a problem of choice;it is a problem of chance