Two things struck Eveline Gill when she travelled from her home in the County Offaly town of Kilcormac, between Tullamore and Birr to Nam Tang, a small village in Vietnam.
One was the lack of churches or places of worship and the other was the plight of the women.
‘I was working on a rice farm and it was quite upsetting to see 99% of the workers were women of all ages; even Granny our host, the matriarch of the families who in her late 50s was carrying sacks of rice weighing 80 kilograms (four stone) on her back down the mountain to the farm in her bare feet. This was the daily workload for the women while most of the men, sons and husbands, played video games and looked on!’
Pic: Eveline with the Tang family.
You can read the full story in this month’s Methodist Newsletter.
