It has been a while since our last update and I attribute that to poor internet here.  I paid $140 US for fast internet (per month for 3 months) and it was fine for about 5 weeks and now I am lucky if I can even log on. We managed to return to Nong Boakham […]

With the much anticipated arrival of friends from British Columbia, Canada, we sent Siphan up ahead to organize the delivery of 250 water filters to four villages.  Of course there are always complications.  By now we have come to expect the unexpected.  The delivery truck left on time, with plenty of time to get here […]

It is difficult to take pictures while being part of the celebration.  The ceremony itself started with the arrival of the District Governor, District Hygiene Director and so on down the line.  There were a few speeches, Hmong Dance and then the Governor spoke.  He was very eloquent and spent most of his time speaking […]

As our avid readers are aware, nothing is ever straightforward and usually difficult at best.  So many things can go wrong and usually do BUT I am proud and happy to announce that this project was concluded with only minor hitches along the way.  We arrived back in Vieng Hin the day before their celebration […]

With the near completion of the first distribution of water filters to Nong Boakham, I spent the next two days emailing everyone in time for Christmas….just made it.  It helped that I spent a little more to get high speed internet.  Instead of taking 4-5 minutes per pictures, it took about 15 seconds each. So […]

During our trip to Donesok, we stayed overnight so that we could attend a school opening with SKL (School For Kids In Laos).  SKL is a Charity out of Winnipeg whose focus is schools.  It was a heck of a drive to get there but here are a couple of pictures. On our way back, […]

The 7km of pipe finally arrived in the wee hours of the early morning, from Vientiane.  While it took a good portion of the day to unload from the big truck and count the inventory, it took only a few hours to reload onto 10 smaller ones and send them off to Vieng Hin. In […]

It has been a busy week with two Lao holidays and progress with our water project.  Monday was a National Holiday with the celebration of Lao Independence…40 years!  It rained so the festivities were moved to the new stadium which doesn’t have spectator seats..only government invited.  Still, it didn’t stop the celebrations with copious amounts […]

The summer and fall were quite fruitful in the presentation and fundraising area.  People and organizations seem to come from nowhere.  We had hoped to raise enough for our two main projects, plus 250 water filters for our first distribution of the season and of course support for our 17 students and teacher.  Indeed we […]