CLE Training Workshop and Community Teaching at Phayao

CLE training_Community teaching preparation1Legal fellow from CLE foundation worked alongside with law lecturers from Vietnam, legal fellow and professor from Australia who worked and volunteered for BABSEA CLE, to develop a CLE training workshop for law students before they provided community legal education. CLE foundation’s legal fellow and volunteers from BABSEA CLE also assisted in the teachings. This project was planned to provide the community education on Acquisition of Thai Nationality to five communities who have personal legal status problems in the Phayao province, Thailand. Many participants could not understand or speak Thai. Therefore, cross-cultural communication was our biggest challenge. To get the most out of it, the teaching and materials needed to be interactive and easy to understand.CLE training_Community teaching preparationThe important thing was to make the participants feel comfortable and not feel divided between highbrow and rural people. Besides providing the community teaching, we also visited the villagers’ house to interview and collect information about their problems.