It was so sad to see everyone leave a couple at a time but I suppose the highlight was when Dawn (my sister) and Beau managed to visit after o many years of hearing me talk about it. While I was busily reporting to the donors, Siphan headed to a small village near the Plain […]

Who would have thought….in January, which is the dry season?  We had planned the itinerary for our many guests down to a tee and checked the forecast daily.  Experiencing no rain and beautiful temperatures since my arrival in November, I thought the coast was clear…until just 10 days before the first guest were to arrive…and […]

Happy New Years to Everyone…I trust everyone has had their best holiday season ever? There has been a lot of activity since arriving back to Laos in late November.  I have tried to keep up but as you can see, the blog entries have been few and far between.  Nursing a bad cold and a […]

While our Fundraising Season is pretty much complete, we haven’t quite hit our targets yet, but let’s get back to that in a moment. First, we held two Used Books Sales in the Municipality of Port Hope and also in Whitby.  I had actually lowered our revenue expectations for the Port Hope Sale because I […]

It has been a bit of a challenge this year with so many volunteer functions happening this year.  But I did manage to take a fun filled week in Vancouver, with 10 presentations in 5 days and a quick side trip up one of the trams to take a birds eye view of the snow […]

As part of the last distribution of water filters for the year, a lot of planning went into the visitation and participations by a large Malay contingent.  29 visitors in fact!  Siphan was a little nervous about managing this by himself although we hired a couple of local people to assist.  By all reports, they […]

In July, we were excited to distribute another 250 water filters!  This brought the total number of family water filters distributed in one year to 764!  That’s about 3,820 people with clean water.  To get to this stage, The Rotary Club of Scarborough, Ontario matched all water filter donations received from their club members and […]

It has been a hectic time over the summer as we are challenged with  new fundraising season.  First however, let us bring you up to date on the last of the projects from last season. The last stage of the seasons projects was to build one last bank of toilets for the village in Pha […]

We had two additional visitors, Janice who is a Canadian living in Singapore and Renaldo, a retired registered nurse from United States.  I wanted to show them our projects so took them along for my final visit of the season to Katang Xieng for a progress update on the school addition.  They had just started […]

We managed to finish off the remaining smaller projects for the season, and with the school addition in Katang Xieng well underway, it was time to look at a number of projects requested of us, for next year. All the projects we are considering are in the Nambak district which is about 2 hours north […]