We traveled to our Children’s Learning Center today to finish delivering furniture, curtains,curtain rods and school supplies to the 3 room preschool there. The tables are banquet tables. Dori cut off the legs so the preschoolers can use them. We
Kokpherng Outreach Event!
Staff, teachers and volunteers from the American Center @ That Dam in collaboration with the Give Children A Choice visited students at Kokpherng Village school on March 31, 2017 to donate books and games. They taught the children how to
Kokpherng Update
Great happenings at our Frank W. Manley Children’s Learning Center in Kokpherng Village. We have a new computer teacher and the American Center @ Thatdam will be visiting our school with lots of games and activities for learning English at
Kokpherng Visit
We visited our Children’s Learning Center in Ban Kokpherng today. We received a small grant for improvements so we are planning on tiling the floors of the classrooms and beginning the computer training classroom. We will hopefully be teaching
Thank you Magical Light Foundation!
Thank you Ben Cheong of the Magical LIght Foundation for your generous donation of 17 pre-owned Macbooks for our new Learning center in Kok Pherng and other schools considered for these wonderful gifts in the future. We picked them up
Laos’ First Childrens Learning Center opens!
Give Children A Choice’s Frank W. Manley Children’s Learning Center was declared the first of its kind in Laos by the Ministry of Education and Sports Department’s Dr. Mithong. Designed for expanding children’s activities both during school and after school,
International Literacy Day
Today is International Literacy Day. Some 775 million adults lack minimum literacy skills; one in five adults are still not literate and two-thirds are women. 60.7 million children are out of school and many more attend irregularly or drop out.
Kokpherng Children’s Learning Center, School Supplies Donation!
We traveled to Kokpherng Children’s Learning Center for a handover ceremony for a generous school supplies donation by Panyathip School and longtime Give Children A Choice supporter, Nadine Dayag. Traveling to Kokpherng: A short video of our arrival at Kokpherng
Kokpherng Children’s Learning Center, Almost Complete!
The new Kokpherng Children’s Learning Center is close to completion. Windows have been installed. Drop ceiling completed. Fans and lights installed. The District Governor visited to survey the new building. He, the District Education and Sports Department, and the village
Kokpherng – Another Exciting Project!
The team visited the Kokpherng Children’s Learning Center this morning. The roof trusses and doors are in place and the next steps are installing windows and the roof coverings. Once the building is complete it will house 4 classrooms