Recognising People of the Land
This gift goes towards the Caritas Peace Fund, which supports health care, human dignity and justice for all. Indigenous people have suffered and been marginalised in many countries around the world. The Peace Fund can help them reclaim their land rights, and restore their connection with ancestral lands after conflict and displacement. It can also support advocacy for indigenous people.
This gift goes towards the Caritas Peace Fund, which supports health care, human dignity and justice for all. Indigenous people have suffered and been marginalised in many countries around the world. The Peace Fund can help them reclaim their land rights, and restore their connection with ancestral lands after conflict and displacement. It can also support advocacy for indigenous people.
This gift goes towards the Caritas Peace Fund, which supports health care, human dignity and justice for all. Indigenous people have suffered and been marginalised in many countries around the world. The Peace Fund can help them reclaim their land rights, and restore their connection with ancestral lands after conflict and displacement. It can also support advocacy for indigenous people.
Case Study
The Kreung, Tampoeun, Phnong and Jarai peoples of northeast Cambodia bordering Vietnam have experienced violence, discrimination and dislocation from their land over the last 60 years. This has happened during several civil and external conflicts in the region.
Caritas partner Development and Partnership in Action (DPA) Cambodia has worked with these communities to help the process of resettlement in their ancestral villages. DPA accompanies these communities in the long process of healing – working to repair and restore the social, cultural and economic fabric of the country damaged by years of war and displacement.
Indigenous Bounong people in Mondulkiri province proudly display GPS-Located boundary maps of their customary land.