The struggle is not over. A bazaar and fundraising is being held to help the residents live. The fund will be used for people's living expenses.
Bank account for donations: 128-02-265980
Daechuri fundraising product orders: ptsallim@hanmail.net / 019-9151-2332
Dachuri residents have been undergoing hardship to live through this winter. At the end of December 2006, according to a survey conducted by the national magazine Hankyereh 21 and the village "keepers", Dachuri residents' economic status turned out to be seriously poor.
28 out of 46 households responded to the survey. 82 percent of them could not earn money through 2006, and 5 households (18%) have just earned some money working as apartment custodians, cleaners and daily paid workers.
Such poor circumstances led them to rely on their relatives, children or bank loans. Furthermore, some older people who had to deal with their problems on their own lived off of food that the village committee gave them.
Such a poor living status has in some cases made them withdraw the compensation for their properties (the money in return for forcefully taking over their properties) The residents have gone through an unspeakably difficult time since last year, when they couldn't cultivate their farms, under military occupation since May 2006.
(From www.antigizi.or.kr/. Translated by Radical Language Exchange www.seoulidarity.net) |
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