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I am trying to get some new schoolbooks for 120 children who attend the Ban Buamlao Primary in Ban Buamlao, Laos. I would appreciate any help you can offer me. Maybe we can scrape up enough money to get the kids a volleyball and a net too!
As a photojournalist, I normally act as a "go between", but in this instance, I felt the need to get personally involved.
The village of Ban Buamlao is located far off the well-beaten Luang Prabang "tourists with money" circuit and is inhabited by Hmong and Kamu slash and burn subsistence farmers. Typifying rural education in this communist country of 6 million, four teachers who each earn $20 USD per month try to educate a student body of one-hundred-twenty with virtually no paper, pencils, textbooks, or much of anything else, including a ball to play with. The youngest children learn their lessons in a detached dirt floored bamboo bungalow.
Laos has had more bombs dropped on it than any other country in the history of our planet. It shows, but the Lao people demonstrate great resourcefulness. They turned bomb craters into fishponds and now they need a little help turning one school into a better place to learn
I am working on this endeavor with a UK registered charity, Changing Ideas.org. Changing Ideas was established by a UK based photojournalist whose own 23 year old son become paralyzed in a diving accident,
Laos has had more bombs dropped on it than any other country in the history of our planet. It shows, but the Lao people demonstrate great resourcefulness. They turned bomb craters into fishponds and now they need a little help turning one school into a better place to learn
I am working on this endeavor with a UK registered charity, Changing Ideas.org. Changing Ideas was established by a UK based photojournalist whose own 23 year old son become paralyzed in a diving accident,
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