Vientiane II

We have many stories from Laos. And we made many good connections. However we did not have internet much of the time. Content will go up in coming weeks.

 

Several conferences in Vientiane and one in Bangkok confirmed many of the things we were seeing in villages and cities. Laos is complicated to understand and to explain. We will do it steps, through specific examples from travels and interviews.

 

We met with several NGO’s, consultants and government contractors including representatives of World Wildlife Fund, Fishbio, International Water Management Institute, the Ministry of Natural Resources, and others. We had the opportunity to attend meetings with national (Laos) and international experts, and forums including the Ambassadors of France and Germany.

 

We heard interesting stories from the founder of Community Learning International. CLI is a small non-profit that operates a library boat and learning centers in northern Laos. The boats reach some villages that previously had no printed words in them. CLI also operates some learning centers, builds schools and has done some media workshops in small towns. For example local youth created a book for tourists talking about their view of their town. He spoke about the changes in Laos over the last 25 years and his thoughts about the future.

 

Watch for pages about some of those topics in the coming weeks.