Mlabri village

Mlabri village

The History of Mlabri community Baan Boonyuen Moo 13.Thambon. Rongkwang, Rongkwang district, Phrae province.

     Currently the Mlabri people live in Boonyuen Suksanae, an area of land owned by Mr Eugene Robert Long, an American missionary. This is because in the past the Mlabri people lived in an area owned by the Hmong tribe whom they worked for. However, the Hmong people paid the Mlabri very little for the work that they did.

This was until a journalist came to visit and wrote about the way that the Mlabri people lived and their low standard of living.

Mr Boonyuen came to the village of the Hmong tribe area and felt compassion towards the Mlabri tribe and wished to help them improve their standard of living. He persuaded the Mlabri people to come and stay with him in Boonyuen Suksanae and helped them to make a better life for themselves.

 Source: The Mlabri community at Baan Boonyuen, Moo 13, Thambon Vieng, Rongkwang district, Prae province.

Informants: 

1. Weera Srichawpa
2. Phin Srichawpa
3. Nlikarn Chawphanaprai
4. Duangporn Naamjaikiri
5. The youths: Mai, Nueng, Amara and Kaewta