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The enthusiasm of a highlands' child about her mother tongue

The enthusiasm of a highlands' child about her mother tongue

  - “Can you speak your mother tongue? - No, I just speak Vietnamese”
  This was a conversation between myself and a woman colleague – daughter of a Sédang (an ethnic minority of central Vietnam).

Destroyed crops in villages of Kon Tum province - October 2020 (cont')

Destroyed crops in villages of Kon Tum province - October 2020


Banana field still submerged 10 days after the end of the flood in Plei Tongia village, Vinh Quang commune, Kon Tum city, Kon Tum Province.


Most banana trees in the flooded zones are long dead.

Destroyed crops in villages in Kon Tum province - October 2020

Destroyed crops in villages in Kon Tum province - October 2020

In the province, the main crops are rice, cassava, sugar cane, corn, coffee... The 2020 flood had a strong impact on many villages' livelihood. Their crops were totally destroyed or unrecoverable after the flood. Here are pictures taken after water went away.

Flood in other districts of Kon Tum province-part 4

Flood in other districts of Kon Tum province - October 2020

Flood in Highlands-Kon Tum - Part 3

Flood in Kon Tum province - Dak Glei district in October 2020


A street transformed in a river, in 14 B village, Dak Pet commune - Dak Glei district (north of Kon Tum province). Many houses in the village were flooded.


Another flooded house in Dak Glei district.

Flood in Highlands-Kon Tum - Part 2

Flood in Highlands - Kon Tum city


   I read on the Internet that the water level all along the river raised more than alarm level 3, sometimes by more than 2 meters.

Flood in Highlands-Kontum - Part 1

Flooding in Highlands - Kontum

   Kon Tum is the capital of the province of the same name. It is one of five provinces in the central highlands of Vietnam, near the borders of Laos and Cambodia where more than 53% of the population are ethnic minority, including Sedang, Jarai, Bahnar, Rongao, Jeh-Trieng, Hre, Brau, Rmam, etc... Their main economic activity is agriculture.

Uplands News blog

March 1, 2017 additions

   Close to 200 additions this quarter, many of them photographs by Jean-Paul Barry and about ten photos, mostly colour ones, by Jean-Dominique Lajoux. Also, two small sets of photographs of "missionary" origin (one from a nun member of the Petites Soeurs de Jésus, the other from Father Gabriel Dethune, a lazarist, deceased on the first of March 2015) starting a source of documents that our website did not reach until now.

November 1, 2016 additions

   More than 280 additions this quarter, mainly colour photographs made by Jean-Paul Barry. This collection now becomes one of the most important shown on our site and should count more than 1000 documents, when it will be fully integrated.

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