The Heaviest Burden

Batak Peoples, Indonesia

The Heaviest Burden Batak People – Indonesia   ‘Everybody has her burden, but the heaviest burden is for the small and the low.’   On the island of Sumatra there was a majestic mango tree. It had heavy branches that rose like arms to the sky and thick foliage from which hung large and fleshy…

Mangye sets off in search of grain

Bouyei People, China, Cooperation and Collaboration, Democracy, Participation and Dialogue, Interdependencies and Systems Thinking, Solidarity and Simplicity of Life, Vietnam

 Mangye sets off in search of grain  Bouyei People – China and Vietnam   A long, long time ago, the Bouyei People had no cereals with which to sustain themselves, so they just fed on the meat of the animals they hunted and on the bark of certain trees.          However, a woman who had…