Adopt A Village In Laos
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 […]
Many of our Lao projects are geared towards sizeable water projects ($40,000 CAD and more) to bring a permanent supply of water to these rural villages that currently have to trek for it, just get enough to cook and drink with. Once a week they trek to a river to bathe (although the elders will […]
Each year, a number of fundraisers are planned and executed by our loyal supporters. Past fundraisers have included backyard musical events, theatre events, bridge fundraisers, restaurant events, used book sales and others. If you and your friends would like to consider the possibility of doing a fundraiser for Laos, small or large, please do not […]
Each year, we plan for a few village trips, often based on the interests of our guests…and YOU ARE INVITED! There are usually 2 or 3 trips pre-planned for guests that have indicated their intention to come. The trips are planned between December 1 and March 15th. After the rainy season the roads need to […]
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